Work–Family Role Conflict and Well-Being Among Women and Men

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liat Kulik ◽  
Sagit Shilo-Levin ◽  
Gabriel Liberman
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Work Family

Ideal or Idiosyncratic? How Women Manage Work-Family Role Conflict with Focal and Peripheral Role Senders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobbi Thomason
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Role Enactment ◽  
The Core ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Domestic Roles ◽  
Insight Into

To provide insight into women’s approaches to managing the work-family interface, I introduce the concepts of focal and peripheral role senders and illuminate the importance of their interplay in the enactment of women’s domestic roles. At the core of my theoretical model is the process by which focal and peripheral role senders embrace or reject an ideal enactment of domestic roles and the women’s strategies women use to either acquiesce to ideal roles or acquire idiosyncratic roles. This paper examines the husband as the focal role sender, consistent with the literature’s focus and the pervasiveness of husbands in my data, and considers peripheral role senders, such as parents and in-laws, who also influence women’s role enactment, either by amplifying or muting the husband’s preferred role enactment. This research contributes to existing theory by introducing the importance of focal and peripheral role senders, illuminating how these multiple senders and their interaction influence women’s strategies to deal with role conflict, and documenting how women’s strategies subsequently influence their career trajectories.

scholarly journals Influence Of Emotional Intelligence On Work-Family Role Conflict Management And Reduction In Withdrawal Intentions Of Workers In Private Organizations

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.I. Akintayo
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Impact

This study investigated the impact of emotional intelligence on work-family role conflict management and reduction in withdrawal intentions among workers in private organizations in Nigeria. The descriptive survey was adopted for the study. A total of 321 respondents were selected using a purposive stratified sampling technique.  Three sets of questionnaires entitled ‘Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), Work-Family Role Conflict Management Scale (WFCMS) and Withdrawal Intentions Scales` (WIS) were utilized for data collection. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test statistics were utilized for data analysis. The findings of this study revealed that emotional intelligence has significant influence on work-family role conflict management. It was also found that a significant relationship does not exist between emotional intelligence and reduction in withdrawal intentions. Moreover, the findings showed that a significant relationship exists between work-family role conflict management and withdrawal intentions.  In order to possibly guarantee effective management of work-family role conflict and foster reduction in withdrawal intentions among the workforce, it is recommended that human resource training programmes that are capable of incorporating some work-oriented psychological issues, such as work-family role conflict management, employee retention strategies and emotional intelligence, should be organized for workers and managers on a continuous basis   in both service and manufacturing organizations.

Spiritual leadership and work–family conflict: mediating effects of employee well-being

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Hunsaker
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Family

PurposeThis study examines how employee well-being, in combination with spiritual leadership, helps mitigate the negative effects of work–family conflict.Design/methodology/approachThis study followed an explanatory research design to explain the relationship between spiritual leadership and work–family conflict. The approach was based on a cross-sectional survey of 278 workers from diverse industries and functional roles in South Korea's manufacturing and service sectors. Structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression analysis were used to test hypothesized relationships.FindingsResults confirmed that spiritual leadership and employee well-being inversely influenced work–family conflict, in terms of work-to-family and family-to-work role interference. Furthermore, employee well-being fully mediated both of these relationships.Practical implicationsThis study suggests that organizational competitiveness can be enhanced through a dual approach of organizational strategies and human resource training that cultivate employee well-being and a family-friendly environment. Notably, this study clarifies the value of leadership practices to both trigger and enhance employee well-being through a sense of meaningfulness in and at work.Originality/valueThis study expands the scope of our current understanding of how employee well-being is an effective mechanism in helping employees cope with work–family role conflict. Moreover, the study demonstrates the role that leadership practices, beyond the narrow interpretation of perceived supervisor support, play in helping employees cope with role conflict. Finally, this study enhances the field of workplace spirituality by examining the influence of spiritual leadership on employees' spiritual well-being and work–family conflict, which has not been currently addressed in the workplace spirituality field.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document