title: Coping with work-family conflict: A leader-member exchange perspective.
abstract: Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory is applied as a framework for understanding coping with work-family conflict. The effectiveness of four work-family coping strategies (i.e., preventive and episodic forms of both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping) is considered with emphasis on how the LMX relationship contributes to each form of coping with work interference with family. The LMX-based model of work-family coping accounts for the development of family-friendly work roles, use of organizational family-friendly policies, and the negotiation of flextime and flexplace accommodations. Constraints on the relationship between LMX and work-family coping associated with supervisor authority and resources and aspects of the organizational context are also discussed. Research and applied implications of the model are offered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA. Dmajor@odu.edu
authors.forename: Debra A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Major
authors.forename: Valerie J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Morganson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D004651:Employment; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010559:Personnel Management; D011340:Problem Solving; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D016526:Workload