Browsing by Author "Cooper, Cary L."

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    Flexible Work Arrangements Availability and their Relationship with Work-to-Family Conflict, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intentions: A Comparison of Three Country Clusters
    (2012) Masud, Aline D.; Poelmans, Steven A.Y.; Allen, Tammy D.; Spector, Paul E.; Lapierre, Laurent M.; Cooper, Cary L.; Abarca Melo, Nureya; Brough, Paula; Ferreiro, Pablo; Fraile, Guillermo; Lu, Luo; Lu, Chang-Qin; O'Driscoll, Michael P.; Suárez Simoni, Alejandra; Shima, Satoru; Moreno Velásquez, Ivonne
    The present study explored the availability of flexible work arrangements (FWA) and their relationship with manager outcomes of job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and work-to-family conflict (WFC) across country clusters. We used individualism and collectivism to explain differences in FWA availability across Latin American, Anglo, and Asian clusters. Managers from the Anglo cluster were more likely to report working in organisations that offer FWA compared to managers from other clusters. For Anglo managers, flextime was the only FWA that had significant favorable relationships with the outcome variables. For Latin Americans, part-time work negatively related with turnover intentions and strain-based WFC. For Asians, flextime was unrelated to time-based WFC, and telecommuting was positively associated with strain-based WFC. The clusters did not moderate the compressed work week and outcome relationships. Implications for practitioners adopting FWA practices across cultures are discussed.
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    Individualism-collectivism as a moderator of the work demands-strains relationship: A cross-level and cross-national examination
    (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2012) Yang, Liu Qin; Spector, Paul E.; Sanchez, Juan I.; Allen, Tammy D.; Poelmans, Steven; Cooper, Cary L.; Lapierre, Laurent M.; O'Driscoll, Michael P.; Abarca, Nureya; Alexandrova, Matilda; Antoniou, Alexandros Stamatios; Beham, Barbara; Brough, Paula; Carikci, Ilker; Ferreiro, Pablo; Fraile, Guillermo; Geurts, Sabine; Kinnunen, Ulla; Lu, Chang qin; Lu, Luo; Moreno Velazquez, Ivonne F.; Pagon, Milan; Pitariu, Horea; Salamatov, Volodymyr; Siu, Oi ling; Shima, Satoru; Schulmeyer, Marion K.; Tillemann, Kati; Widerszal Bazyl, Maria; Woo, Jong Min
    Surveying 6509 managers from 24 countries/geopolitical entities, we tested the process through which individualism-collectivism at the country level relates to employees' appraisals of and reactions to three types of work demands (i.e., work hours, workload, and organizational constraints). Our multilevel modeling results suggested that, while working the same number of hours, employees from individualistic countries reported a higher perceived workload than their counterparts in collectivistic countries. Furthermore, relationships of perceived workload and organizational constraints with job dissatisfaction and turnover intentions were stronger in individualistic than in collectivistic countries. Importantly, results of supplementary analyses suggested that the cultural value of individualism-collectivism moderated the mediation effect of perceived workload between work hours and both job dissatisfaction and turnover intentions. Our findings highlight the need to expand contemporary theories of work stress by applying multilevel approaches and incorporating cross-national differences in dimensions such as individualism-collectivism while studying how employees appraise and react to important work stressors. Journal of International Business Studies (2012) 43, 424-443. doi: 10.1057/jibs.2011.58