Family-supportive supervisory behaviors (FSSB) refer to behaviors exhibited by supervisors that help employees to make a balance between work and family, including emotional support, instrumental support, role modeling behaviors, and creative work-family management. This paper sorts out the emerging background, connotation and measurement of the concept of family-supportive supervisory behaviors and places emphasis on the effects, influencing factors and boundaries of exerting the function as for family-supportive supervisory b...