WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT AND EMPLOYEE’S FAMILY-WORK SATISFACTION MODERATED BY WORK-LIFE BALANCE PRACTICES; A CB SEM ANALYSIS

Authors

  • Dr. Muhammad Tahir Lecturer (HR), Business Studies Department, College of Economics & Business Administration, University of Technology & Applied Sciences, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8195-513X
  • Dr. Premkumar Arul Lecturer (Marketing), Business Studies Department, College of Economics & Business Administration, University of Technology & Applied Sciences, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

The work and family are important aspect of modern human life and conflict in these two domains can have negative outcomes for individual as well as organization. However, how various interventions such as work-life balance practices can diffuse the negative outcome is not much investigated. In the present study, we focus this issue using a theoretical model. Accordingly, we tested the effects of work and family conflict on employees work and family satisfaction while testing the work-life balance practices as moderator. The study used cross-sectional survey and data is collected from the teaching staff of private colleges (n=165). The first step of analysis included performing Confirmatory Factor Analysis through AMOS and result shows that our measures had satisfactory reliability and validity. The second step included performing path analysis for hypotheses testing. The result shows that work-family conflict has negative and significant effects on work satisfaction. Furthermore, family-work conflict has negative and significant effects on family satisfaction and work satisfaction. We also found positive and significant effects of work-life balance practices on family and work satisfaction. Furthermore, the moderation result indicates that work-life balance practices moderate the negative effects of family and work conflict on employee work and family satisfaction. Based on the results, we conclude that family and work conflict is harmful and their negative effects can be minimized using suitable work-life balance practices.

Keywords: Family, Work, Conflict, Work-Life, Balance, Outcomes, Colleges.

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Published

22-11-2023

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023)

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