Impact of Women’s Workplace Leave and Dependent Care Policies on Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Family Support

The purpose of this paper is to explore leave policy and dependant care policy of women employees who are motherhood and working for Information technology business influence on their job performance. Using 387 responses collected from women employees working for an Indian IT company, we tested the hypothesized relationship between Employee Leave Policy (DLP) and job performance (JS) and between Dependent Care Policy (DCP) and job performance (JS) using structural equation modeling approach. Further, we also test the path relationship with family support as moderator. The result show that explores leave policy influence women employee better balance their work and family life thus provide good job performance and possible dependent care policy tend to impact more job performance. Results also underscore positive family supported employees present a good balance between work hours and well-being to have better performance in their job.