Conducting scholarly research provides opportunities to learn about important ideas and relationships in the world that affect our lives. This knowledge can, and should, be transferred to both the business and academic communities through books, articles, scholarly meetings, and teaching. Advancing knowledge that positively impacts the lives of employees and the organizations where they work is an important part of his research philosophy. Dr. Boyar's research falls in the following areas: work-family interface, employee turnover, social support, scale development, and leadership.
For the past two decades, he has focused much of research on the work-family interface to help better understand how these two important areas interact and impact our lives, both at home and work. In particular, he examined work-family conflict (WFC), work-family enrichment (WFE), and work-family balance. His research has explored potential factors that directly and indirectly impact WFC or WFE levels (e.g., stress, personality, social support) as well as outcomes (turnover, nonattendance, job and family satisfaction). More recently, he has been exploring work-family episodes and their impact on work-family balance and other important work and family outcomes.
In support of this line of research, he has developed several scales (work and family demand, work-family social support, and turnover motives) to improve our ability to understand the work-family interface and to reduce employee turnover.
He is also working a multi-year study examining several modern leadership theories (authentic, servant, and situational leadership) to learn about their relevance and impact on society. In particular, he is interested in evaluating the empirical relationship between relevant predictors (e.g., emotional intelligence, critical thinking, & personality) and situational leadership to assess the impact on performance. Modeling such relationship will hopefully help us better understand these leadership approaches and improve leadership training effectiveness.
