Work Life Conflict Literature Review

1. LITERATURE REVIEW 3
1.1. Overview of the themes 3
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2. CONCLUSION 9
3. REFERENCE LIST 10 1. LITERATURE REVIEW
Work-life balance (WLB) is a situation where people can manage their work and their personal life, without and sometimes with one role affecting the other one (Lewis, 2011). The “life” aspect can be considered as “family life”, “non-work activities”, etc. Some authors refer at it as “work-life balance” and others as “work-family balance”, because “life” also involves “work” and it not only affects their life, but also their families. However, this balance is not equal to everybody (Kossek, Batles, Matthews, 2011). This literature

This depends on the demands, resources, personal attributes, and culture (Jain and Nair, 2013). One of its resources is energy (time, knowledge or physical energy), because it helps and supports a person, so the lack of it causes stress in an individual producing a conflict (Hsieh, Pearson, Chang and Uen, 2004). A person spends most of his time and energy in one of the roles, rather than the other one (Hsieh, Pearson and Kline, 2009). These amounts are fixed, and it is when people try to accomplish both demands when the conflict occurs (Camgoz, 2014). Kossek et al. (2011) add that as more roles a person have, it is more probable that they are going to clash. This suggests that everybody has been in this conflict

Also, personal life enhances work more than it interferes with it and more than work enhances personal life (Hsieh et al., 2008). However, Lewis (2011) highlights that as family events are not that flexible, they interfere with work. Work interfering with personal life produces stress (even more with personal life involvement). Therefore, by leaving the organization the stress was reduced and the problem was eliminated. Whereas, it does not have the same effect in the other way, they use work as a way to escape (work involvement) (Hsieh et al., 2009). This reveals the major spillovers found in managers’ life and