Human Resource Manager Perceptions of Organizational Culture Factors That Affect the Incorporation of Family-Friendly Benefits

This study investigates what the organization factors human resource managers perceive affect the incorporation of family-friendly benefits. Based on a survey of 340 human resource managers from Society for Human Resource Management chapters in Texas, seventeen (17) family-friendly benefits were studied. These included on-site child care, compressed work weeks, flextime, elder care, domestic partner coverage, lactation accommodation, and college reimbursement. Corresponding to prior literature, organization size was highly associated with the existence of many of the benefits. The percent unionized, part-time employees, female employees, and under 30 years of age were not. Beyond the literature, a high people orientation and more liberal organization environment also were associated with more of these benefits. Production orientation, creativity, and organizational stress appeared to have little association with family-friendly benefit incorporation