Job and family life of the women employedin the tourism of Vojvodina - conflicts and advantages

Abstract

Work and family are the two most important aspects of a woman?s life. The problem of mismatch between work and family intensifies and culminates in modern families in which both spouses are equally absent from the family. The employment of both spouses affects family life by preventing the fulfillment of family roles and obligations in the way that it had functioned before the massive participation of women in the labour market began. Increased interest in this issue started with the massive employment of women. Women become financially more independent than their husbands, have less time for family responsibilities, seek greater equality in decision-making, leading to increased opportunities to report conflicts of family and business roles, as job matching requirements and family activities are higher. When a conflict arises, it also affects the organization and the individual. Numerous studies have found that a person experiencing a conflict of working and family life will experience an increase in health risk, a reduction in work and life effects, and a decrease in life satisfaction. The paper presents the results of a research aimed at examining the influence of negative affectivity, conflictual interaction of work and family, as well as the positive interaction of the work and family role of women employedin the tourism industry of Vojvodina on organizational commitment and intent to leave the job. The research was conducted in hotels, travel agencies and tourist organizations. The results of the survey have shown that the conflict between work and family affects the increase in the intention to leave the organization, and that, as is expected, a positive interaction between family and work increases the degree of affective commitment to the organization.