Lesson Tag: supervision

This session focuses on translating each of the Family Friendly Supervisor behaviors to practical strategies that supervisors can adopt in the workplace. 

A family-friendly supervisor is supportive of employees’ family roles. This session focuses on teaching participants about the four kinds of family-friendly behaviors, including how to differentiate among them, and what the research suggests about them. 

This session increases self-awareness and provides practical strategies to help supervisors combat the flexibility bias. Participants will learn about the relevant research and the strong business case for flexible work arrangements. 

Cultural norms encourage workers to stay late, be available 24/7, and rarely take time away from work. As a result, flexible workers are often the target of flexibility bias and those who need flexible arrangements may fear requesting or developing them. Flexible workers may be perceived as less productive and less committed to work. In this session participants will learn about the flexibility bias, the source of this bias as well as consequences.