Abstract
Work family conflict is an established phenomenon of modern economies. It becomes more intense for female labour force performing multiple roles in the society. This study was conducted to answer the research questions of impact of Work Family Conflict on Job Satisfaction and affect of job satisfaction on life satisfaction of female executive students who are working as well as studying. Purpose of the study was to identify areas of conflict, for the female students to enhance their qualification as future labour force, and examine the association between Work Family Conflict, Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction. The study worked on three hypotheses. The data was collected from a sample of 200 population of executive MBA students during semester from four business universities in Karachi. Questionnaire also included demographic survey questions information regarding age and marital status. The results of the survey reported negative correlation between work family conflict and job and life satisfaction. Family support, value system of traditional societies like Pakistan and individual interpretation of self-reporting method were the reasons ascertained for the results.
Highlights
The buzzword of contemporary business economies is ‘Work-Family Conflict’ which occurs when there are conflicting demands in the roles of family and work, and fulfilling the two roles becomes difficult for an individual
The results for question 1, ‘Does Work-Family Conflict (WFC) have any impact on job satisfaction and of hypothesis one i.e. WFC will impact job satisfaction is shown in Table 1 that the regression model predicts job satisfaction as insignificant, P ≥ 0.0005 which is more than 0.05 and indicates that, overall, the model applied is insignificant in predicting the outcome variable
For question 2 and Hypothesis 2, which sought to understand the effect of WFC on life satisfaction, the results showed an insignificant in predicting the outcome variable
Summary
The buzzword of contemporary business economies is ‘Work-Family Conflict’ which occurs when there are conflicting demands in the roles of family and work, and fulfilling the two roles becomes difficult for an individual. Work-Family Conflict, Job and Life Satisfaction individual causes tiredness, greater stress, performance loss, lowering of work satisfaction, and organizational commitment (Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2004). Due to the difficulties in fulfilling multiple responsibilities, balancing work and family has become the biggest challenge in an adult’s life (Byron, 2005). In this regard, several studies have been done in the individualistic societies of the developed world, but little work has been done in the collectivist societies in the developing world (Baral &Bhargava 2010)
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