COR model -- Resources and Same-Career Couples -- Developing Social Support in Employees: Lessons From Same-Career Couples -- Lesson 1: Increase Instrumental Support From Supervisors -- Lesson 2:Welcome Work--Family Integration to the Extent It Supports Resources -- Lesson 3: Encourage Employees to invest Work-Related Motivational Resources and Provide Them With the Resources to Invest

In light of research suggesting significant links between social support and human resource outcomes, managers have become increasingly concerned with how to develop social support. One solution is to examine the experiences of a group of employees with extremely high work–life integration, same-career couples, to develop lessons for human resource development. Same career couples are employees who work in the same workplace or in the same occupation as their partner. From their experiences and research concerning social support resources in organizations, the authors suggest mechanisms to develop social support with the intention of improving human resource outcomes.