The ecological model is a theoretical perspective that can be adopted to organize and balance organizational and employee outcomes, thus avoiding the over emphasis of one at the expense of the other. The model was originally conceived to help understand human development within multiple layers of context (e.g., families, neighborhoods, and communities). The ecological model proposes that human development takes place over time through processes of complex, reciprocal interaction between individuals and their environments. Bronfenbrenner (1994) describes multiple ecological systems within which the individual is embedded and each system has its own set of success criteria.