Preferences for family-friendly benefits: Anticipated regret, work centrality, and decoy options

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

8-2017

Abstract

Organizations increasingly offer family-friendly benefits to attract and retain talent. We investigated inherent and constructed preferences for two types of family-friendly benefits: flexible work arrangements (FWA) and dependent care support (DCS). In two experimental studies we found that work centrality predicted preferences such that the more central work was to a participant’s identity, the stronger the preference for a job offering with attractive FWA benefits over a job offering with attractive DCS benefits. Further, preferences were significantly influenced by the presence of a decoy option such that they shifted towards the FWA option when the decoy targeted this option and to the DCS option when the decoy targeted that option. In addition, Study 2 showed that anticipated regret significantly mediated the effects of work centrality and decoy options on preferences. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Discipline

Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Academy of Management Proceedings: 2017, August 4-8, Atlanta

Identifier

10.5465/ambpp.2016.15240abstract

Publisher

Academy of Management

City or Country

Briarcliff, NY

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.15240abstract

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