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Supporting Families Can Lead to Healthier, More Productive Workers

Friday September 18, 2009

Portland, Ore. — Sept. 18

Researchers at the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety and Health (CWFSSH), housed at Portland State University, and Michigan State University were awarded a $4.1 million grant to take part in a five-year study evaluating innovative workplace change initiatives designed to improve employee health. This study is part of an NIH $30 million initiative to improve worker health and business work-family practices.

Drs. Leslie Hammer of Portland State University and Ellen Ernst Kossek of Michigan State University identified behaviors consistent with being a "family-supportive supervisor" and developed a training program around those behaviors. Follow-up research showed that employees with family-supportive supervisors reported better overall health, lower blood pressure, lower turnover intentions, improved safety and greater productivity, when compared with employees whose supervisors who weren't as supportive.

"Our training provided managers with tools for being more supportive of employees with family and non-work demands. This training proved to be beneficial for both the employer and the employee in terms of effectiveness and well-being," Hammer stated.

Kossek sees the study as timely, given our current economic crisis. "Businesses are searching for new ways to manage in a tough economy,” she said. “Our study shows that just teaching managers to be more supportive can have cost savings for turnover, [and] lower stress, which all affect the bottom line." These cost savings could translate to lower health care costs as well.

For more info: http://www.wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/

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