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
Citation
REB, Jochen; LI, Andrew; and BAGGER, Jessica.
Preferences for family-friendly benefits: Anticipated regret, work centrality, and decoy options. (2017). Academy of Management Proceedings: 2017, August 4-8, Atlanta.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6918
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.15240abstract