Although there has been a considerable body of research on the benefits of family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), this research has primarily focused on recipients of such actions. Yet scholars know little about how it affects the actors themselves. Drawing on self-determination theory and spillover theory, we develop a framework to illustrate how FSSB benefits for actor’s job performance and family role performance. We propose that supervisor’s perspective-taking helps to realize the benefits of FSSB by enhancing the within-individual effect of FSSB on perceived prosocial impact. We adopt a weekly experience sampling method to evaluate our framework. Our findings show the benefits of engaging FSSB for supervisors. Specifically, FSSB results in perceived prosocial impact, which then works through organization-based self-esteem to increase supervisor’s job performance; and through work-family enrichment to increase supervisor’s family role performance. In addition, the supervisor’s perspective-taking strengthens the positive relationship between FSSB and supervisor’s perceived prosocial impact. Our findings contribute to the FSSB literature by illuminating its effect on the actors themselves.
