This volume presents a field-tested enrichment program, MAP, to
help married couples maximize their relationship potential. MAP is
a metaphor for a planned and systematic change effort for helping
spouses chart and navigate toward desired individual and collective
goals. A key component of the program, which is tailored to the
corporate sector, is assistance to couples in forging a more
productive and supportive work and family partnership that will
help them achieve their marital ambitions. The program is built
upon an explicit consideration of family-related values and is
undergirded by a theoretically and empirically based conceptual
model: the Value-Behavior Congruency Model. Although the enrichment
program provides the organizing theme, the core of the book is
directed toward providing theoretical and empirical support for the
Congruency Model, and linking the development and implementation of
the program with trends in corporate America today. Two data sets
are used to test the critical assumptions that form the basis of
the model. The first involves 48 married couples from two posts in
the U.S. Army, where one or both spouses were members of the Army;
the second involves a sample of 34 couples from a Fortune 500
corporation in the northeastern United States in which MAP was
first field-tested.
Taken together, the contents of this book represent an attempt
to integrate theory, research, and practice in the development and
grounding of the enrichment program. Although such attempts are
recognized as important tasks in the behavioral and social
sciences, segregation rather than integration of these three
domains has been the rule rather than the exception in the
literature. This volume should be especially relevant to the
growing number of marital enrichment specialists who are looking
for more theoretically and empirically grounded support programs,
especially those that have been field tested in the expanding
market of workplace programs for employees and their families. It
should be a valuable resource for senior managers and human
resource professionals in both the private and public sectors who
want to strengthen the organizational support for employees and
their families.
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