Work-life balance: Satisfaction and perception of conciliation politics on determining variables?

Documentation refers to (work-life balance) conciliation politics either as a strategic tool, an obligation or an act of social responsibility. By means of a multiple-choice questionnaire, we questioned 331 nurses about their perception pertaining to conflict and corporate support, the role they expected employers to play with regards to work-life balance conciliation support as well as their degree of satisfaction of supportive programmes. We also analyzed commitment and job satisfaction attitudes. Results show that the perceived organizational support plays a mediatory role between work-life conciliation programmes, on the one-hand, and the commitment and satisfaction attitudes, on the other hand. However, giving a more or less important role to the employer does not influence this relationship. (C) 2008 Societe franqaise de psychologie. Publie par Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits reserves.