Work Family Conflict Theory Essay

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Frone,Russell and Cooper (1992) developed and tested a comprehensive model of the work-family interface. This model was an extension of the research conducted prior to this. It was related to the interference of work into family and family into work. The influence of gender, race and job type was also tested. A random sample of six hundred and thirty one was collected and structural equation modelling was conducted. Results showed that there was no difference across genders and race but there were differences across blue and white collar jobs. Study revealed that there was a relationship between work family conflict and family work conflict and the relation was positive and reciprocal. This was proved in previous studies (Greenhaus & Beutell …show more content…

Work domain antecedents considered were, time commitment and work role expectation while the antecedents of family domain was parental demands. Moderating effects of work and family support resulted in support for both within and cross-domain interactions. The motive to be committed and exhibit high quality work happens when supervisors and organizational policies were supportive. The study found that there was a moderate relationship between work domain stressor and work to family interference by family – friendly policies and supervisor support. In the work domain stressor, only work time commitment (β=-.38, …show more content…

For work stress three components were taken into account. They were role conflict, role over-load and role ambiguity. Also relation with the conflict and turnover intentions was studied. Structural equation modelling was done in order to find out whether data fit within the model well. From the analysis it was clear that there was a relation between the variables like role conflict and role overload with work family conflict. But found that role ambiguity did not have any relation with work family conflict. The path from work to family conflict was found to be significant but that of family to work conflict was not. Also found that family responsibility was not related to family to work conflict. But the relation between work to family conflict and family to work conflict was significantly positively related to turnover

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