Creating Maternity-friendly Enterprises:Relationship Between Child' s Age and Employee' s Workplace Behavior under Background of Negative Population Growth
To explore ways of creating a maternity-friendly environment from the perspective of enterprises, 103 leader-employee paired data is used to analyze the relationship between family motivation and workplace behavior of employees with"only child". Results show that family motivation positively affects employees ' proactive behavior and negatively affects their withdrawal behavior. Employees ' occupational role commitment not only moderates the relationship between child ' s age and employees ' family motivation, but also moderates the indirect impact of child ' s age on employees ' proactive behavior and withdrawal behavior through family motivation, and the mediating effect of employees ' family motivation is significant when occupational role commitment is low. This study not only expands the research on the reasons of family motivation and on family-work promotion, but also proves that child and career can be balanced, which has important implications for creating a maternity-friendly business environment.
maternity-friendly enterprisesnegative population growthfamily motivationoccupational role commitmentworkplace behavior