Name: Rebecca Storey

Master’s Thesis Proposal Meeting
Date: Monday, February 14th, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: https://bluejeans.com/453232426/2732
 
Advisor:
Kimberly French, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
 
Thesis Committee Members: 

Kimberly French, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Keaton Fletcher, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)

Tammy Allen, Ph.D. (University of South Florida) 

Title: Disentangling Antecedents from Outcomes of Flexibility i-deals: The Role of Work-family Balance Satisfaction

Abstract: Workers are increasingly playing a more active role in shaping their employment conditions by negotiating what are called idiosyncratic deals (i-deals). I-deals are “voluntary, personalized agreements of a nonstandard nature negotiated between individual employees and their employers regarding terms that benefit each party” (Rousseau et al., 2006, p. 978). A particular type of i-deal is a flexibility i-deal which allows workers to alter where and when they complete work to better fit their personal needs. Thus far, the flexibility i-deal literature has consisted almost entirely of cross-sectional examinations of what are believed to be work-family and organizational outcomes of flexibility i-deals. Cross-sectional examinations, however, limit our ability to infer causality, meaning that these outcomes may only be correlates. The purpose of the present study is to use three waves of archival data to explore how work-family balance satisfaction functions as both an antecedent and an outcome of flexibility i-deals. Additionally, the present study explores two within-person factors (family centrality, performance) that motivate workers to negotiate these arrangements. Relationships will be explored using a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model.