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Organizational Dynamics

Volume 43, Issue 1, January–March 2014, Pages 53-63
Organizational Dynamics

Designing Work, Family & Health Organizational Change Initiatives☆☆

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Ellen Ernst Kossek holds the Basil S. Turner Chair of Management at Krannert School of Management and is the inaugural research director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center at Purdue University. Elected the second president of the Work Family Researchers Network, and an APA and SIOP Fellow, she has won awards for advancing research and practice on gender and diversity in organizations (Professor of Management, Krannert School of Management, 4005 Rawls Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States. Tel.: +1 5173880952; e-mail: [email protected]).

Leslie B. Hammer is a professor of psychology at Portland State University and director of the Center for Work–Family Stress, Safety, and Health. Her research focuses on ways in which organizations can help reduce work and family stress and improve positive spillover among employees by facilitating formal and informal workplace supports (Portland State University, United States).

Erin L. Kelly is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and an affiliate of the Minnesota Population Center. Her research on employers’ flexibility initiatives, family leaves, childcare benefits, and diversity programs has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Law & Society Review, and elsewhere (University of Minnesota, United States).

Phyllis Moen holds a McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota after twenty-five years at Cornell University. She has published numerous books and articles on careers, work organizations, health, well-being, gender, policies, and families, as they intersect and change over the life course (University of Minnesota, United States).

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Author Note: The authors would like to thank their colleagues for their valued assistance and input into the writing of this paper: Ryan Olson, Brad Wipfli & Kent Anger, Oregon Health Sciences; Krista Brockwood, Portland State University; Cassandra Okechukwu, Harvard University, Georgia Karuntzos, RTI International, Rosalind King, National Institutes of Health, and Lisa Burke, Purdue, University. This research was conducted as part of the Work, Family, and Health Network, which is funded by a cooperative agreement through the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant # U01HD051217, U01HD051218, U01HD051256, U01HD051276), National Institute on Aging (Grant # U01AG027669), Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant # U010H008788). The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of these institutes and offices. Special acknowledgment goes to Extramural Staff Science Collaborator, Rosalind Berkowitz King, Ph.D. (NICHD) and Lynne Casper, Ph.D. (now of the University of Southern California) for design of the original Workplace, Family, Health and Well-Being Network Initiative. Persons interested in learning more about the Network should go to: http://www.kpchr.org/workfamilyhealthnetwork/public/researchers.aspx.