Wage employment and gender differences in work–family role conflict among industrial workers in South-Western Nigeria

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
DI Akintayo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Wage Employment ◽  
And Gender ◽  
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 Gender Differences and Work-Family Conflicts among Emergency Physicians with Intention to Leave

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Fang Wu ◽  
Po-Chang Wang ◽  
Yi-Chuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Night Shift ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Emergency Physicians ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family

Backgrounds. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationships among intention to leave, emergency physician clinical activities, work-family conflicts, and gender differences in emergency physicians (EPs). Methods. The survey instrument was a self-administered questionnaire containing basic demographic information and characteristics of clinical activities. The work-family conflicts were assessed by the Chinese version of the work-family conflict (WIF) scale. The questionnaires were mailed to board-certified EPs between January 2014 and August 2014. Student’s t-test, Chi-square test, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to test the difference between subgroups. Logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the factors associated with intention to leave and gender differences. Results. The study included 222 respondents for analysis after exclusions. Compared with physicians not planning to leave, those planning to leave ED practice showed higher dissatisfaction with their clinical work hours (50.0% versus 31.4%, p = 0.035) and night/day shift ratio (52.9% versus 31.0%, p = 0.013) and tended to work with night/day shift ratio exceeding 40% (67.6% versus 45.7%, p = 0.019). Female physicians were more likely to leave ED practice (females versus males, 26.5% versus 10.1%, p = 0.008). A significantly higher level of WIF scale was noted in the group with intention to leave ED practice (3.7 ± 0.6 versus 3.3 ± 0.7, p = 0.001). Conclusions. Females and EPs with higher level of WIF scale were more likely to leave emergency clinical practice. Instead of the number of clinical practice hours, the satisfaction with the clinical work hours and night shift frequency were significantly associated with the intention to leave.

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.

scholarly journals Work-to-Family Enrichment and Gender Inequalities in Eight European Countries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Beham ◽  
Sonja Drobnič ◽  
Patrick Präg ◽  
Andreas Baierl ◽  
Suzan Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
National Differences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Work Family Enrichment ◽  
Family Enrichment

All social roles have positive and rewarding as well as negative or problematic aspects. Research on the work–family interface has predominantly focused on conflicting roles. In contrast, this paper extends research on work–family enrichment (WFE), a positive aspect of work and gender differences in WFE in a cross-national context. Drawing upon social role theory and the culture sensitive theory on work–family enrichment, we examined gender differences in experiences of developmental WFE in a sample of service sector employees in eight European countries. In line with traditional gender roles, women reported more WFE than men. The relationship was moderated by both an objective and subjective measure of gender egalitarianism but in the opposite direction as hypothesized. The gender gap in WFE was larger in more gender-egalitarian countries, where women may be better able to transfer resources from the work domain to benefit their family role than in low egalitarian societies. National differences in labor market factors, family models and the public discourse on work–life balance mainly explain the unanticipated findings.

Protecting others, compassion, and sacrifice: The toll of disaster policing on law enforcement officers in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 0032258X2110447
Author(s):  
Liz Davenport Pollock ◽  
Daniel Augusto
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Adaptive Response ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This study used a qualitative grounded theory approach to explore disaster experiences of law enforcement officers (LEO)s ( n = 56), in two high disaster areas of the United States. Respondents indicated that disasters cause increased stress on LEOs from fatigue, extended shifts, changing duties, increased workload, work–family role conflict, and new operational expectations and challenges within the agency during disasters. Family safety was also identified as a critical stressor and pre-occupation for LEOs during disaster policing, as well as an enhanced reliance on critical thinking as an adaptive response to untrained for challenges that are unique to disasters.

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