Family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSBs) have recently garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, alike. Research has primarily focused on explaining the influence of FSSBs through resource-based and social exchange theories. However, FSSBs as a means of social information processing has been overlooked. Thus, we conduct an integrative review of FSSBs, to date, proposing a cognitive processing framework, conceptualizing FSSBs as a workplace informational cue which triggers employee cognitive processing, thus influencing perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. We suggest that shared knowledge and similar behaviors within a team reinforces family-supportive expectations of the organization by reinforcing the social information cues.
