Abstract
The construction industry is a demanding work environment where employees’ work-family conflict is particularly prominent. This conflict has a significant impact on job and family satisfaction and performance of employees. In order to analyze the dynamic evolution of construction industry employee’s work-family conflict between work and family domains, this paper constructs a bi-directional dynamic model framework of work-family conflict by referring to the relevant literature. Consequently, a system dynamics model of employee’s work-family conflict in the construction industry is established, and a simulation is conducted. The simulation results indicate that construction industry employees experience work interference with family conflict (WIFC) levels which are significantly greater than the family interference with work conflict (FIWC) levels. This study also revealed that improving work flexibility and organizational support can have a positive impact on the satisfaction and performance of construction industry employees from a work and family perspective. Furthermore, improving family support can only significantly improve employee job satisfaction.
Highlights
Work-family conflict has a negative impact on an employee’s work and family life, as well as his/her physical and mental health and well-being [1,2,3,4]
Previous studies have shown that the demanding work environment of the construction industry has the potential to significantly interfere with the family and social role of employees [13,14,15], which makes the employee work-family conflict prominent compared to other industries [16]
work-family conflict (WFC) is divided into with family conflict (WIFC) and family interference with work conflict (FIWC), according to the performance as the WFC outcome variables, in order to construct a bi-directional dynamic model bi-directional concept of WFC
Summary
Work-family conflict has a negative impact on an employee’s work and family life, as well as his/her physical and mental health and well-being [1,2,3,4]. As a labor-intensive industry, the construction industry features high level of risks, heavy workload, and long project duration These lead to long working hours, work overload and high work-family conflict for employees. The system dynamics model is established from the perspective of employee’s work-family relationships in the whole life cycle of construction projects. A model simulation is conducted, in order to identify the internal rules of the evolution of employee work-family conflict in work and family settings. Findings provide both theoretical reference and practical advice relating to work-family conflict in the construction industry
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