Abstract
The mediating roles of work-family balance, job satisfaction and family satisfaction in work-family dynamics research has not been explored fully to delineate their probable intervening effects. Using spillover theory as the basis, the current study tests a model to identify the role of these factors in work-family conflict (and work-role ambiguity), career satisfaction and perception of life success. Responses obtained through an online survey from a final sample of 344 academic faculty, across different educational institutions in India, tend to suggest that work-family balance mediated work-family conflict and its potential influence on life success as well as career satisfaction, and also the relationship between work-role ambiguity and both life success and career satisfaction. While job satisfaction also showed similar results except for non-significant mediation between work-role ambiguity and life success, family satisfaction mediated only between work role ambiguity and life success. The importance of job satisfaction and work-family balance is highlighted in the context of reducing the negative impact of work-family conflict and work-role ambiguity on one’s career and life satisfaction. Results and their practical and theoretical implications, and future directions of research to further our understanding of work-family dynamics, etc., are discussed.
Highlights
Studies of the work-family interface issues started by focusing on the ‘conflict’ aspects between work and family domains [1]
Support exists for H2b and H2c, but not for Hypothesis 2. Family satisfaction (H2a). These results suggest that job satisfaction and work-family balance can play significant roles in academic faculty experiencing improved life success through less work-family conflict, but family satisfaction does not seem to have a significant role in helping academic faculty experience improved life success by reducing work-family conflict
The significant role of job satisfaction and work-family balance in improving career satisfaction and perception of life satisfaction was confirmed in this project
Summary
Studies of the work-family interface issues started by focusing on the ‘conflict’ aspects between work and family domains [1]. Investigators have studied a plethora of antecedents and outcomes related to work-family conflict and work-family balance/work family enrichment [3,4]. Studies have focused on the role of work and family variables in predicting one’s job or family satisfaction or work-family balance [5]. What is absent in the work-family dynamics literature are studies focusing on how work-related factors can possibly influence satisfaction in different domains of the academic faculty, such as career satisfaction or perception of success in one’s life. This paper focuses on the academic faculty who are exposed to a unique work-family dynamics environment compared employees doing a typical 8-5 job.
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