Free Essay

Work Family Conflict

In:

Submitted By tkling
Words 6346
Pages 26
Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 1.1 Introduction to the Study 2 1.2 Background of the Problem 3 1.3 Research Objectives 5 1.4 Research Questions 5 1.5 Significance of the Study 6 2.0 Research framework 7 2.1 Reviews of Related/Past Literature 7 2.2 Research Framework 13 2.3 Hypothesis 13 2.3.1 Life Role Values 14 2.3.2 Gender Role Orientation 15 2.3.3 Job Type 16 2.3.4 Work Time Commitment 17 3.0 Research Methodology 18 3.1 Research Design 18 3.1.1 Types of Study 18 3.1.2 Sources of Data 19 3.2 Measurement 20 3.3 Data Collection Procedures 21 3.3.1 Data Collection and Administration 21 3.4 Data Analysis Techniques 22 4.0 References 24

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the Study
Nowadays, balancing work, housework, and childcare responsibilities can become strenuous which can result in work- family conflict. There are many studies that focus on the relationship between work-life and personal life, as well as the impact of one on another. People continuously get in touch with friends, relatives, organizations and colleagues in their life routine. They have different roles according to their positions in society and it is possible that they live role conflict once in a while.

Furthermore, one of the most important problems in business life is work-family conflict in the modern world. While problems such as bad relations with superiors in the workplace deeply affect family relations, family problems such as divorce also reduce the performance of the staff (Ozdevecioglu and Doruk, 2009). It is evident that an employee's work life affects and is affected by his family life, whether negatively or positively. While inflexible and extensive hours, work overload, and job stress lead to stress in family life, child care and intensive involvement with family activities limit one's career aspirations (Aminah, 2008).

Besides that, workers face challenges of managing their work and family roles, and importantly, these challenges have become more numerous and complex. The focus towards work-family issues and work-family practices in particular, has been driven by a number of major demographic changes. These include the increased employment of women, the rising number of dual-career couples and single-parent families, and the enlargement of the elderly population.

Finally, the purpose of this study is to identify how work life (job type and work time commitment) and personal life (life role values and gender) that can give impact on the work family conflict.
1.2 Background of the Problem
Purpose – The articles of other researchers had paid attention on the demographic aspect which increasingly examine from the aspect of work and personal life. Many researches were conducted in an organization are attempts to link these two areas. Nowadays, only a few studies have examined the relationship between work and personal life outcomes. A study of doctors in Malaysia related to work, family conflict revealed that at work and personal life were more likely to experience work-family conflict. Previously, the researchers were majority only focus on organization outside of Malaysia. According to Sampath Kappagoda article, we found that the article focus on teachers in Sri Lanka. A total of 325 school teachers was selected from Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts using the convenience sampling technique. The other article was from Patricia Voydanoff (2014), which state that the research uses data collected for the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan and focus on 757 married men and 270 women. Next, according to Mustafa Donmez, Haci Duru, and Orhan Bez (2013) article, the research was located in Diyarbakir and police office as their respondents. The next article is from T. Mjoli, M. Dywili and N. Dodd (2013), which making a research in South Africa and female factory as their respondents. Lastly, the article from Aminah Ahmad (2008), state that the research is done in Malaysia. All of the article is the evidence that the majority of researchers is focusing their research outside of Malaysia and no researchers make a doctor as their respondents. Therefore, we decide to make it more specific and reliable, we choose doctors in Malaysia as our respondents. We combined all the researchs done by other researchers about the work family conflict to obtain more comprehensive results.

Furthermore, based on Sampath Kappagoda article, the independent variable is the emotional intelligence of school teachers in Sri Lanka. Other than that, according to from Patricia Voydanoff (2014) article, the independent variable is work role characteristics and family structures demand. The work role characteristics contain measures of the amount and scheduling of work time and job demand. Family structure demand contains measures of time spent in family work, spouse's work hours and the age of the youngest child. According to an article from Mustafa Donmez, Haci Duru, and Orhan Bez (2013), the independent variable are job related factors which are shift work and supervisor support and individual-related factors which are age, gender, and the number of children. The next article is from T. Mjoli, M. Dywili, and N. Dodd (2013). The demographic as the independent variable of this article. The demographic variable is concerned age, marital status, number of children and age of youngest children. The last article are from Aminah Ahmad (2008), which the independent variable concerned are job-related factors(job type, work time commitment, job involvement, role overload, job flexibility), family-related factors (number of children, life-cycle stage, family involvement, child care arrangements) and individual-related factors (life role values, gender role orientation, locus of control, perfectionism).

Lastly, after we read all five articles above, we decide to make work life (job type and work time commitment) and personal life (life roles values and gender) as our independent variables. For us, all the items are very comprehensive to apply for doctors in Malaysia and we trust that we can get better analysis from that.

1.3 Research Objectives
From previous section we already mention the variable that include in our research. Thus, the main research objective of the study is to determine the causes of work family conflict from the aspects of work and personal life. The specific research objectives that this study intends to achieve are as follow: * To determine the relationship between job type with work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia * To determine the relationship between work time commitment with work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia * To determine the relationship between life roles values with work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia * To determine the relationship between gender with work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia

1.4 Research Questions
Based on the research background and previous literature review, this study seeks to establish the following research questions. * Does job type affect the work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia? * Does work time commitment affect the work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia? * Do life role values affect the work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia? * Does gender affect the work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia?

1.5 Significance of the Study
This study is expected to promote better understanding of work family conflict. Besides, this study is deemed significant to researchers and UUM officers for specific reasons. First for researchers, it can assist in formulating future effective work family conflict model. Second for UUM officers, it is hoped to create awareness and reduce the impact of work and personal life in work family conflict. This understanding can also be used to achieve equilibrium between work and personal life. Hopefully, this would not only result in better quality of working life but also their daily life. One major problem, which married officers in UUM experience high work-family conflict will often face conflict between work and personal life.

2.0 Research framework
2.1 Reviews of Related/Past Literature
According to Sampath Kappagoda research, the main objective of this study was to examine the impact of emotional intelligence on work family conflict of school teachers in North Central province of Sri Lanka. In addition, the researcher investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence and two dimensions of work family conflict (work to family conflict and family to work conflict). The results of the correlation coefficient and regression analysis indicated that emotional intelligence of the teachers have significantly and negatively correlated to work, to family conflict, family to work conflict and work family conflict.

Emotional intelligence was operationalized into four dimensions self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management) for the purpose of this study. All these dimensions have significantly and negatively correlated with work family conflict. It indicated that if the person can understand their emotions and can manage their emotions well, they can balance their work and family responsibilities. In turn, if they can understand others emotions as well as they can build the positive relationship with each other, they can minimize the work family conflict. Finally, it can be concluded that the emotional intelligence plays an extremely important role in work to family conflict, family to work conflict and overall work family conflict.

In this article, the researcher only focus on the effect of emotional intelligence on work family conflict and do not include other factors like type of job and work time commitment. So, this research is still lack of focus on other factors that influence work family conflict. Moreover, this research is conducted in Sri Lanka and it only focus on school teachers only. We want to focus on workers in medical field which is doctor from the factor of emotional intelligence.
From Patricia Voydanoff (August,2014) research, the findings indicate that amount and scheduling of work time, job demands, and the presence of children in the home are related to work family conflict among men and women. Perceived control over the work situation buffers some relationships between work role characteristics and work family conflict. Work role characteristics and family structure demands contribute additively to work family conflict; family structure demands do not exacerbate relationships between work role characteristics and work family conflict. Work hours, non-day and weekend work, job demands (with the exception of enriching job demands), time spent in family work, spouse's work hours, and children under 18 in the home are expected to be positively related to work family conflict. Enriching job demands should be negatively related to work family conflict.

Among men, five work role characteristics (weekly work hours, non-day shift, workload pressure, work role conflict, and work role ambiguity) are positively related to work family conflict. Weekend work and enriching job demands do not show a relationship to work family conflict. Among the family structure demands, children of all ages in the home are positively associated with work family conflict. Weekly child care hours shows a significant negative relationship to work family conflict. Time spent in home chores and spouse's work hours are not related to work family conflict for men.

Among women, two work role characteristics, work hours and workload pressure, show significant positive regression coefficients for work family conflict; however, non-day shift, work role ambiguity, and enriching job demands show nonsignificant relationships in the expected direction. Weekend work and work role conflict are not related to work family conflict. The presence of children of all ages is positively related to work family conflict. Weekly child care hours and weekly home chores hours show negative nonsignificant relationships with work family conflict. Spouse's weekly work hours are unrelated to work family conflict among women.
This research explain clearly about how work role characteristics (weekly work hours, non-day shift, workload pressure, work role conflict, and work role ambiguity) and family structure demands affect the work family conflict based on gender. However, this research only focus on the relationship between work role characteristics, family structure demands, and work family conflict. It does not focus on individual factors like life role values and locus of control. Besides that, this research only focus on married people and do not consider unmarried people. So, the data is not complete. We want to focus on workers in medical field which is doctor from the factor of gender, marital status, and life role value.

According to research of Mustafa Hacı andOrhan (2013), the determinants of work and family conflict among police officers in Diyarbakir police department (Donmez, Duru and Bez, 2013), that was said that there is no relationship between gender and work and family balance. This can show at the result the relationship between work and family conflict and gender is not significant. It is also worthy of note that gender is not entered into the analyses for ranked officers since only three of the ranked officers were female and in this study, there are only 22 female officers. Therefore, it is likely that there is not enough statistical power to detect a relationship between gender and work and family conflict, if any. Next is, females were severely underrepresented in sample. Although females are underrepresented in general, the proportion of females in this sample was even smaller. It was found that the effect of gender on work and family conflict is not significant. This might be an artifact of the sample. So, this research is still lack in focus effect in gender.

Moreover, this article also was it shows that similar mechanisms about work and family conflict are in effect in Turkey as in the Western countries. And more specifically, the work and family conflict among police is also driven by similar factors as among the occupations. Thus, this research is behind work and family conflict is generalized able to Turkey, and the police in Turkey. This article was do are research in oversea that is Turkey, so because of that we want to do research inside of Malaysia.

There has no research was specific toward a medical field such as doctor to have a relationship with the work and family conflict. Another funding in this research is the shift work of worker. To sum up, shift work has a strong effect on police officers’ work and family conflict, as it is expected by the theory, since one of the main predictors of the work and family conflict is the allocation of time between the family members and work. The Turkish National Police have the authority to distribute shift work among the police officers. That is, they will decide who works for how much time. Since shift work has a strong effect on the level of police officers’ work and family conflict. The ranked officers who are available on call 24 hours a day experience more work family conflict than officers who work between 8am and 5pm. However, this research still lack because focus two stage of worker by the ranked officer and officer worker. We want to focus to one group of worker in field of medical as a doctor in the shift work.

According to t.Mjoli, M. Dywili, and N. Dodd (2013) research, they examines the relationship between work-family conflict and selected demographic variables among female factory workers in East London, South Africa. The independent variables for the study were selected demographic variables, while work-family conflict is the dependent variable. The demographic variables concerned are age, marital status, number of children and age of the youngest child. The measuring instruments were a self-designed questionnaire to measure the demographic variables and a questionnaire developed to measure work-family.
A sample of 100 female factory workers who are employed by companies in East London, South Africa was used. Age, number of children and age of the youngest child were all found to be positively correlated to work-family conflict. For marital status the findings were contrary to previous research findings, as the researcher found that marital status is not significantly positively related to work-family conflict. The population sample for this research study involves five organizations. A sample of 100 female factory workers who are employed by companies in East London, Eastern Cape Province was used. The sampling approach which has been used in this study is the non-probability purposive sampling method. Internal consistencies of scales used for rating questions on work-family conflict and occupational stress were sufficient and reliable.

For the result, age is significantly positively correlated with work-family conflict. The research hypothesis (H1) are accepted. These findings are in line with the previous research findings. In particular, researchers have observed that in the early stages of their careers, individuals are often willing to sacrifice their personal lives in the interest of their career progression. Marital status is not significantly positively related to work-family conflict. The research hypothesis (H2) is rejected and null hypothesis (H0) accepted. These findings are in contrary to previous research findings. Prior research has found that being married leads individuals to give their personal lives priority over their work lives. The number of children is significantly positively related to work-family conflict. The research hypothesis (H3) are accepted. Research to date has established that work family conflict increases as one’s obligation to the family expands through the arrival of children. Age of the last born child is significantly positively related to work-family conflict. The research hypothesis H4 is accepted, i.e. women with children under six years of age experience more work-family conflict as compared to women with children above six years of age. Parents with children under the age of six had the highest levels of work-family conflict, followed by parents with school-age children.
Based on the article of job, family and individual factors as predictors of work-family conflict (Aminah Ahmad, 2008), this research is find examined the role overload experienced at work and its relationship with work-family conflict among Malaysian female physicians in public hospitals. Besides that, this article also said that have a study conducted on female nurses and their husbands by found that nurses experienced varying degrees of conflict in trying to meet the demands of work and family roles. About two-thirds of the nurses experienced moderate to high intensity of conflict. Significant negative relationship was found between husbands’ gender role orientation and wives’ work-family conflict. This show the female or wives have more on work family conflict than are husband or male. This article is leads and focuses to female worker than a male worker for the base of gender.

In addition, this article was research female Malaysian operators, clerks, secretaries, nurses and physicians. This we can say that the researcher was doing a research based on inside of Malaysia. However, this research still lack of information because not focus in the field of medical. That has study in two sectors such as management and medical. We just want to more focus to examine in medical field that was a doctor profession. The shift work of the worker that can find in this research is through the study found that 87.7% of the physicians experienced moderate to heavy workload which could be attributed to the relatively high frequency of on-calls and an increase in the number of outpatients to be attended as well as the increase in the number of patients in the ward leading to a high patient to physician ratio. The physicians also experienced a considerable intensity of work-family conflict and the conflict tended to increase with an increase in the workload. So, at this finding we can see the research have the same work family conflict with what we want to study in the medical field. However, this article still deficient about the content in shift work.

In conclusion we found out that the information still more lacking. We decided to search more information regarding to the level of conflict toward doctors in Malaysia. According to all articles there is nothing research about the conflict among doctors. All articles shows that their findings are among teachers and officer. However its still lack of information about the conflict among doctors in Malaysia. Their personel life usually may influence the level of stressfull for doctors. It is maybe because of their role as doctors and commitment that they have to bare in order to make sure the community among them are in good conditions. Unflexible time may influence space and time to spend with their family and its can influence to work family conflict. we know that inconsistentcy work time and on-call may effect the time spending with family.

2.2 Research Framework INDEPENDENT VARIABLES DEPENDANT VARIABLE
Personal and Family Life * Life Role Values * Gender Role Orientation

Personal and Family Life * Life Role Values * Gender Role Orientation

Work Family Conflict (WFC)
Work Family Conflict (WFC)

Work and Job Life * Job Type * Work Time Commitment

Work and Job Life * Job Type * Work Time Commitment

Figure 1: Research Framework

2.3 Hypothesis
The hypotheses developed and to be tested in analyzing the relationships among variables based on the research framework which discussed before. The hypothesis for this study is as follows:

2.3.1 Life Role Values
From cite by citation besides job-related and family-related factors, a number of individual-related factors could contribute to the experience of work-family conflict. The incorporation of individual values into the work-family conflict research is important because life role values are central to organizing meaning and action for working people (Carlson, & Kacmar, 2000). In incorporating values into work-family conflict research, Carlson & Kacmar (2000) has used three multiple perspectives, namely centrality, priority and importance.

Centrality refers to the value expression of individuals with regard to how central work or family is in their lives when compared to other life roles. Thus, the different centrality placed on the role of work or family may be helpful in explaining differences in the experience of work-family conflict. Priorities refer to the value expression of individuals with regard to how individuals prioritize their life roles. Variation in values as expressed by prioritization of life roles should lead to differing experiences of work-family conflict. Life roles can also be examined from the perspective of importance which refers to the value expression manifested in the importance an individual places on a given role. The researchers found that individuals who valued work over family experienced greater family-to-work conflict. In addition, the sources, levels, and outcomes of work-family conflict were found to differ depending on the life role values held by the individuals when expressed in terms of work centrality and importance. However, differences in the work-family conflict process were not found for individuals whose values were expressed in terms of priority or family centrality.

Non-directional
H0 : There is no relationship between life role values with work family conflict.
H1 : There is a relationship between life role values with work family conflict.

2.3.2 Gender Role Orientation
Another individual-related antecedent of work-family conflict that has not been much studied is gender role orientation. This refers to the beliefs individuals hold about normal roles of men and women in meeting family and work responsibilities (Harris & Firestone, 1998). Conceptually, gender role orientation is seen as ranging on a continuum from traditional gender role orientation whereby the roles of men and women are seen as distinct and separate. Men who saw their roles as interchangeable with their wives’ roles tend to accept more responsibility for tasks associated with childcare, meal preparation than men who endorsed specialized roles between men and women.

A study conducted on female nurses and their husbands by Aminah Ahmad (1999) found that nurses experienced varying degrees of conflict in trying to meet the demands of work and family roles. About two-thirds of the nurses experienced moderate to high intensity of conflict. Husbands’ gender role orientation ranged from traditional to egalitarian with slightly less than three-quarters of them holding traditional to moderately egalitarian orientation and slightly more than a quarter holding egalitarian orientation. Significant negative relationship was found between husbands’ gender role orientation and wives’ work-family conflict. This indicates that women whose husbands hold more egalitarian orientation tend to experience less work-family conflict. In addition to husbands’ gender role orientation, women’s own traditional orientation or expectation of gender roles has also been studied. Cardenas, Major, and Bernas (2004) in their study of women employees consisting mainly of African American and Caucasian women, reveals that their traditional gender role expectations are positively related to family distractions experienced at work. Carnicer et al., (2004) have found that Spanish women who believe more in the traditional gender roles experience greater work-to-family conflict.

Non-directional
H0 : There is no differences between gender role orientation with work family conflict.
H1 : There is a differences between gender role orientation with work family conflict.

2.3.3 Job Type
Cite by cite says women have engaged with household duties to help to the family (Barnett and Hyde, 2001). However, this trend has changed with the dual – career households. Like other employees, teachers have to accomplish different roles simultaneously. They have to fulfil work and family roles together. When they are occupying multiple roles, they are more likely to experience inter-role conflicts (Boyar, Maertz Jr., & Pearson, 2005). Anyway, balancing work, family responsibility is a one of the challenges many employees facing nowadays.

There are many studies examining the characteristics of work domain as predictors of work-family conflict. One of the characteristics is job type. Employees in managerial and professional positions report higher levels of work-to-family conflict than those working in non-managerial and non-professional positions (Duxbury & Higgins, 2003). Among Spanish employees, Carnicer et al. (2004) found that there was a positive association between job category level and work-family conflict whereby managers experienced greater work-to-family conflict than lower category employees. Related to the job category level in the study was the employees’ education levels. Employees with a master’s or doctoral degree experienced greater work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict than employees with high school education. A study of female Malaysian operators, clerks, secretaries, nurses and physicians found that physicians experienced the greatest intensity of work-to-family conflict. However, operators experienced the greatest intensity of family-to-work conflict (Aminah Ahmad, 2005).

However, there is nothing information the role as doctors, we know that doctors having inflexible and inconsistence time orientation. They have to spend much more time in hospital with their service saving people, researching and many more. It mays cause time spending at home decreases. Moreover, they have to on-call any emergency that might happen in the future that need them to attend immediately without any reason.

Non-directional
H0 : There is no relationship between job role with work family conflict.
H1 : There have a relationship between job role with work family conflict.

2.3.4 Work Time Commitment
Studies suggest that work time commitment is related to the intensity of work-family conflict experienced by employees. One of the commonly measured forms of work-family conflict is time-based conflict, defined as conflict that occurs when the amount of time devoted to one role makes it difficult to fulfill the requirements of another role (Greenhaus & Beutell. 1985). Long hours could have negative consequences for families and for workers who struggle to balance the demands of work and family roles. Work-family researchers have found that time committed to work contributes to conflict between employees’ work and non-work roles (Beauregard, 2006; Grzywacz & Marks, 2000; Darcy & McCarthy, 2007; Kinnunen, Vermulst, Gerris, & Makikangas, 2003; Major, Klein, & Ehrhart, 2002; Nielson, Carlson, & Lankau, 2001)

Non-directional
H0 : There is no relationship between work time commitment with work family conflict.
H1 : There is a relationship between work time commitment with work family conflict.

3.0 Research Methodology
3.1 Research Design
3.1.1 Types of Study
This study is a correlation research design in order to explore the relationship in work and personal life affect the work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia. In this methods which have been used to get results, have been discussed. The design of research is a quantitative study which is a descriptive design. The quantitative research is the systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical or numerical data or computational techniques.

The objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories and hypotheses pertaining to phenomena. The process of measurement is central to quantitative research because it provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative relationships. In layman's terms, this means that the quantitative researcher asks a specific, narrow question and collects a sample of numerical data from observable phenomena or from study participants to answer the question. To analysis this study, the most common analytical method to analyze data is to convert the raw data to quantitative data and then compare them to each other. It is the method which has been used for analyzing in this thesis. The methods to gain the primary information beside the analyzing method have been clarified. In this process of data collection, research method is used such as survey and interview. The two of this method is included from the quantitative method.

In addition, survey research provides are comprehensive overview of work and personal life affect the work family conflict among doctors in Malaysia. For interview part, it is a collection of individuals who have been selected to formal interviews about their work and personal life that affect the work family conflict. Doctors are bound by the constraints of structured question at the time. Presenting and analyzing collected data truthfully and cross-referencing was important in order to achieve undistorted conclusions and accurate recommendations.

3.1.2 Sources of Data
The unit of analysis is based on an individual factors that can influence by workload. Granting to the consensus doctors are among the high pressure of work load. They accept to confront all the circumstances that might be taking place anytime. All criteria had been selected to identify the work load and job stress may gain to all physicians. The sample is based on individual unit where all variables gathered in one segment. We define that Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur or HBKL is the suit place to reach the valid result in terms of their population in that region where this hospital is one of the largest and the busiest place for patients taking treatment, operating theater and so along. As the result, it will more relate to the topic that want to come up.

The techniques that we are deciding is probability sampling with simple random sampling. This is the most better finding where we establish that all docs do not have time to spend toward anything that not related with their employment. And then this probability may receive the result as could. The procedure for each element has known and equal chance of being selected. The doctors that pick randomly by the list of doctors list in Human Resources department that we found that there free operation and easier to contact at that time. It's based on the schedule by all doctors in HBKL. The probability might gain more generalizable result, easily to understand, and it's reliable population relate to the topic research.
3.2 Measurement Variable Total number of items Scales SourcesDEMOGRAPHIC 5 Mustapha, Haci & Orhan,2013 * Gender 1 Nominal ScalesExample: What is your gender? Male Female * Age 1 Example: 20-24 25-29 30-34 34-39 40 and above Ordinal Scales * Years of services 1 Ordinal Scales * Years of marriage 1 Ordinal Scales * Number of children 1 Ordinal Scales PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIFE 6 * Gender role orientation 3 Likert Scales 1-5 Cooke Rousseau, 1984Example: Women experienced more work family conflict than men. * Life role values 3 Likert Scales 1-5 Aminah Ahmad, 2008Example: Individuals who valued work overfamily experienced greater family-to-work conflict. JOB AND WORK LIFE 6 * Work time commitment 3 Likert Scales 1-5 Aminah Ahmad, 2008Example: I spend more time in work than at home. * Job type 3 Likert Scales 1-5 Duxbury & Higgins, 2003Example : Employees in professional positions report higher levels of work-to-family conflict than those working in non-professional positions.Variable Total number of items Scales SourcesWORK FAMILY CONFLICT 4 Likert Scales 1-5 Mustapha, Haci & Orhan,2013Example: I cannot fulfill my responsibilitiestoward my family because of my job. |

3.3 Data Collection Procedures
3.3.1 Data Collection and Administration
This research is of a non-experimental and quantitative nature. A survey was conducted to collect the empirical data. The research is done to explore relatively unknown areas in order to gain new insight and understanding into a phenomenon. Our research is being form to get the result of personal life and work life towards work family conflict.

Data is collect by using quantitative design method. Data collection method we will use to collect data from our respondents is questionnaire design method. The reason why we choose questionnaire method to collect data is because we can obtain data more efficiently in terms of researcher time, energy, and costs. Besides that, we knows how to measure the variable of interest.

The respondents will be choose from the doctors who work at Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur. We will choose 100 respondents to involve in our research. The doctors we choose are include both Muslims and non-Muslim doctors. The questionnaire will be personally administrated. This is because we will get the permission from the Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur to conduct our research by distributing the questionnaire to the doctors. So, we can collect the data we want in a short period, maybe within several hours.

We will distribute the questionnaire to the respondents by hand. We will go to Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur and distribute the questionnaire to our respondents. After that, we will stay at there for some hours to wait the respondents to answer the questionnaire. When the respondents has some questions about the questionnaire, or they do not understand what is the question ask, we can explain to them on the spot.
We will make sure that we will not face some problems when collect our data. So, to be secure in term of to get adequate sampling, we will print extra questionnaire and distribute to the doctors. Throughout this questionnaire design method, the objective to know the personal and work life towards work family conflict will get more accurately and reliable result.

3.4 Data Analysis Techniques
We will use descriptive statistical tools to analyse our data. Descriptive statistics will help us to show or summarize data in a meaningful way such that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data. However, descriptive statistics do not allow us to make conclusions beyond the data we have analysed or reach conclusions regarding any hypotheses we might have made.

From the questionnaire we prepare, we can obtain the frequency of each categories for each part, like job and work life scale and work and family conflict scale, the response categories include strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree. So, we can know the number of times the categories occurs. We will arrange the result of questionnaire in a table, and we also will be displays it by using bar charts, histograms, or pie chart.

We will also do the measure of central tendency which include mean, median, and mode. Mean offer a general picture of data without unnecessarily inundating one with each of the observation in our data set. The median is the middle score for a set of data that has been arranged in order of magnitude. The median is less affected by outliers and skewed data. The mode is the most frequent score in our data set. We can consider the mode as being the most popular option. We will also do measure of dispersion which include variance and standard deviation.

We will also use inferential statistical tools to analyse our data. We will more focus on this inferential statistical tools in analyse our data. Inferential statistics tool are techniques that allow us to use our samples to make generalizations about the populations from which the samples were drawn.

The process of achieving this is called sampling. Inferential statistics arise out of the fact that sampling naturally incurs sampling error and thus a sample is not expected to perfectly represent the population. We will use inferential statistical tools to determine what is the factors that cause the work family conflict the most. It can help us to clustering or classification of data points into groups.

We also use correlation technique to indicate the relationships among all the variables that we want to measure. We want to see the relationship between life role values with work family conflict, relationship between job role with work family conflict, relationship between work time commitment with work family conflict, and differences between gender role orientations with work family conflict.

4.0 References
Ahmad, A. (June 2008). Job, Family and Individual Factors as Predictors of Work-Family Conflict. The Journal of Human Resource and Adult Learning Vol. 4, No 1, 57-65.
DÖNMEZ, M., DURU, H., & BEZ, O. (2013). THE DETERMINANTS OF WORK AND FAMILY CONFLICT AMONG POLICE OFFICERS IN DIYARBAKIR POLICE DEPARTMENT. Diyarbakır Emniyet Müdürlüğü’nde Çalışan Polislerin Yaşadıkları İş-Aile Çatışmasını Belirleyen Faktörler, 135-156.
Kappagoda, U. S. (n.d.). Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Work - Family Conflict among School Teachers in North Central Province in Sri Lanka. Senior Lecturer Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management Studies, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Sri Lanka., 1-10.
Mjoli, T., Dywili, N. M., & Dodd, N. (February 2013). Demographic Determinants of Work-Family Conflict among Female Factory Workers in South Africa. Journal of Economics, Business and Management, Vol. 1, No. 1, 39-41.
Voydanoff, P. (08 OCTOBER 2014). Work Role Characteristics, Family Structure Demands, and Work/Family Conflict. Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 50, No. 3, 749-761.

Similar Documents

Free Essay

Work Family Conflict

...the work family conflict which is in simple term refer to the situation which occurs due to the imbalance in the working area and family where an individual cannot fulfill the role in the both areas. The main purpose of this paper is to unfold what the work family conflict and dual professionalism is. Furthermore, this paper reviews the article that pinpoint the factors that is responsible for work family conflict. The main aim of this paper is to figure out how the factors like gender, culture, job satisfaction and stress end up in work family conflict. Likewise, this paper also reviews the ways to control the work family conflict to some extent. Keywords: Work family conflict, Gender, Culture, Job Satisfaction, Stress Introduction Work-family conflict has been the important issue in the present scenario. Today both the couples are working in a particular field in order to pursue their goals. In the past decades, mainly women were responsible to balance the work and family. As the time changes, men have been also responsible to balance family and work. Female were only supposed to stay in home in the past era. These days the idea is completely changing. Both the couples work and pursue their dream. These days it is clear to us that both the couples work and share the responsibility of the family and care giving. (Greenhaus et. al, 2000). Both the couples are finding difficult to balance the work and family life. The term work family conflict and family work conflict seems...

Words: 1264 - Pages: 6

Premium Essay

A Sino-U.S. Comparison of Work-Family Conflict and Its Implications to American Managers

...A Sino-U.S. Comparison of Work-Family Conflict and Its Implications to American Managers A SINO-U.S. COMPARISON OF WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT 2 Abstract In this qualitative study, work-family conflict in China and the United States is compared and contrasted based on national culture, traditions, norms, and living standards. The analysis results in a proposition that Chinese employees will experience less work-family conflict when faced with the same work and family demand as their American counterparts, because of differences in their work and family priority, perception of work-family relationship, national culture, conflict handling style, social support, work-family communication, and economic pressure. The implications to American managers are discussed. A SINO-U.S. COMPARISON OF WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT 3 A Sino-U.S. Comparison of Work-Family Conflict and Its Implications to American Managers Work-family conflict has been a concern of many researchers (Carlson & Kacmar, 2000; Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985). Studies showed that work-family conflict had negative impact on employees, their families, and organizations (Beutell & Witting-Berman, 1999; Burke, 1988; Frone & Cooper, 1992; Goff, Mount, & Jamison, 1990; Martins, Eddleston, & Veiga, 2002). Recent changes in demographic characteristics of the U.S. work force have resulted in greater work-family conflict. Examples of these demographic changes include the...

Words: 4638 - Pages: 19

Premium Essay

Work-Family Conflicts

...females going out to work. However, several problems have arisen as a result of this, which need to be addressed in order to maintain an integrated society. This essay will discuss the causes and effects of two of these problems and suggest possible solutions. One of the main issues regarding the phenomenon of married females going out to work is women afford an intensive lifestyle. Dex [1998] supports that women experience more inter-role conflict than men. In addition, Aryee and Luk (1996) found out that women tend to support family at the expense of work. It reveals that women are bearing more stresses from work and family. Consequently, women need to bear more stress than men and it might affect their standard of living. Besides having intensive life, another issue related to married females going out to work is that the companies’ efficiency maybe decreased. Kanter (1977) observes that work and family cannot be considered as separate entities. That means the unpleasant moods can spill over from work to family and vice versa. As the majority of the organizations not allow their employees to choose their own working schedule. If women need to take care of their work and family at the same time, they may feel hard and may cause conflicts with their colleagues, family members or even supervisors. From the above, we can see that there are inconvenient for married women to go to work in Hong Kong. However, I am not talking about married women should not go to work. I just want to...

Words: 563 - Pages: 3

Premium Essay

Work Family Conflict

...was the simple random and purposive sampling methods. The circuit is made up of ten public basic schools in 3villages. The main tools for gathering data were questionnaires, interviews and observations. The statistical tool used in the analysis of the data included percentages derived from frequencies and these were presented in tables. Conclusions drawn were that teacher absenteeism in the Abesim circuit led to the teachers’ inability to complete syllabi, there were poor examination results and also excessive pressure on substitute teachers, etc. Some of the recommendations made are: school authorities should use regular attendance to school as one of the basis for promoting teachers, avoid paying teachers for those days they did not work, empower Heads of Basic Schools to be able to sanction absentee teachers. Key words:Teacher, Circuit, Absenteeism, Public...

Words: 10170 - Pages: 41

Free Essay

Buffering Work and Family Conflict

...Buffering Work and Family Conflict Cyndi Willis Author note: This assignment was made by Cyndi Willis on July 25, 2014 for Kathryn Chiplis’ Work and Family course at Rasmussen College. Buffering Work and Family Conflict There are many things that create conflict when one is trying to balance their work life and their family life. Sometimes it becomes increasingly overwhelming trying to keep a job and move up the ranks to a higher paying position while still pleasing your spouse, kids, and just being there for your entire family. Both work and family come with obligations and it is often difficult to prioritize between the two as both are very important and rely on each other. There are certain buffers that help dissipate work and family conflict. One of them is family composition. There is a lot covered under a family’s composition. Having close family and friends nearby can help a single working mother or father or even dual working parents juggle their work and family lives. Extra hands on deck are always a plus with busy families. Depending on the ages of the children of a family, younger children tend to provide more stressors while older children who need less are more stable and can do a lot for themselves which relieves potential stress off the parents. If both parents work, having set chores for each of them is a good way to even the playing field making sure neither parent is more overloaded than the other. A housekeeper would also be a great option to take some...

Words: 807 - Pages: 4

Free Essay

Impact of Flexible Scheduling on Employee Performance Regarding Stress and Work

...stress and work-family conflict Abstract Stress, work-family conflicts and flexible scheduling are three of the most important elements in organizational studies. The focus of current study is to understand the effect of Stress, work-family conflicts and flexible scheduling on employee’s performance and also to understand whether flexible scheduling helps in reducing stress and work-family conflicts or not. A survey has also been conducted to strengthen the idea comprising of a sample of 70 employees from different organizations. 53 of them responded and the respond rate was 75%. Descriptive statistics is used to analyze the data. Results show that stress and work family conflict negatively affect the employee performance and flexible scheduling has a positive effect on employee performance. Primary study as well as literature review showed that flexible scheduling also helps in reducing stress and work-family conflicts. However, results are strongly based on the literature review i.e. secondary data. Introduction Work family balance is one of the most emerging concepts in the field of business and in the corporate world. Organizations are trying to reduce this conflict for the betterment of organization as well as for the employees. Western researchers have done a considerable work on this concept of work-family balance (Berg et al., 2003; Frone, 2003; Rossi, 2001; Marcinkus et al., 2007; Young, 1999). Actually work-family balance is used to reduce the work-family conflict...

Words: 2000 - Pages: 8

Premium Essay

Business Research

...Master of International Business Administration Business Research Methods for Managers-Fall 14086 THE REASONS BEHIND EMPLOYEE TURNOVER, ITS’ EFFECT AND THE METHODS TO REDUCE IT Supervised By Dr. Ashraf Elsafty Presented by: Yasser Hassan El Sayed Created Date: Oct 10, 2014 Last updated: Dec 11, 2014 Table of Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 3 1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 4 1.1. AN OVERVIEW 4 1.2. PROBLEM DEFINITION 4 1.3. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE 4 1.4. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 5 1.4.1 MODEL VARIABLES 6 1.4.1.1 Dependent variable 6 1.4.1.2 Independent variables 6 1.4.2 RESEARCH ASSUMPTIONS 6 1.4.3 RESEARCH LIMITATIONS 6 1.5. RESEARCH QUESTIONS 7 1.5.1 MAJOR QUESTIONS 7 1.5.2 MINOR QUESTIONS 7 1.6. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 7 1.6.1 RESEARCH TYPE 7 1.6.2 SAMPLING 7 1.6.3 DATA ANALYSIS METHODS 8 1.6.4 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD 8 1.7. THESIS STRUCTURE 8 2. CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 9 2.1. INTRODUCTION 9 2.1.1 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 9 2.1.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH 9 2.2. PREVIOUS STUDIES 9 2.2.1 REASONS BEHIND EMPLOYEE TURNOVER 9 2.2.2 SYMPTOMS THAT ORGANIZATION FACE IN RESPONSE OF TURNOVER 10 2.2.3 COSTS OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER 11 2.2.4 MANAGING TURNOVER THROUGH SELECTION 11 2.2.5 THE FORMATION OF AN EFFECTIVE RETENTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM 11 3. CHAPTER 3: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGN 12 3.1. INTRODUCTION 12 3.2. PROBLEM DEFINITION 12 3.3. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE 12 3.4. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 13 3.4.1 DEPENDENT VARIABLES...

Words: 4850 - Pages: 20

Free Essay

Psycap, Wfc, Outcomes

...Capital on Work-Family Conflict and Its Outcomes Amna Binte Shehzad Malik Ahmed Bin Shehzad Malik Kaniz Fatima and Asbah Shujaat University of Central Punjab Author Note Research Article written by students of BBA at Faculty of Management Studies, University of Central Punjab, for the completion of Research Methodology course under the instruction of Inam-ul-haq, Assistant Professor at University of Central Punjab Any correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to Ahmed Bin Shehzad Malik. Email: ahmed.shehzad5@gmail.com INTRODUCTION The success of any organization is highly dependent on how its employees work and perform tasks (Lambert, 1990). For quite some time, employees have been facing difficulties in the form of work-family conflict because they are unable to fulfill the roles of their work life and family life properly. Work-family conflict affects the productivity of an employee which, consequently, has impact on the outcomes for the organization. The recent explosion of interest in the work-family interface has given rise to a number of concepts that try to explain these two major fields of life in terms of work-family balance, accommodation, compensation, spillover, work-family enrichment and work-family integration etc. (Barnett, 1998; Edwards & Rothbard, 2000; Friedman & Greenhaus, 2000; Greenhaus &Beutell, 1985; Lambert, 1990). One term commonly used and cited in these research works is work-family conflict. The relationship...

Words: 7588 - Pages: 31

Free Essay

Work Life Balance

...Affecting Work Life Balance among University Teachers: the case of Pakistan Noor Fatima: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Pakistan. noor_e_fatimah@hotmail.com Dr Shamim A.Sahibzada: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Pakistan. shamim@szabist-isb.edu.pk Abstract Balance in work and family life is an emerging challenge for both employees and employers. The present research categorises selected variables as work and family related factors to study work life balance. This paper analyses the determinants of work and life imbalance with respect to male and female university teachers. A total of 146 teacher’s responses from both private and public sector universities are included in the study. Statistical analysis reveals that partner support, colleague support and job resources are positively associated with the work life balance whereas unfair criticism at job is negatively associated with work life balance. Independent sample t-test is used to analyse the effect of independent variables on work life balance with respect to male and female university teachers. The variables, partner support, childcare responsibilities, elder dependency, and colleagues support have different effect when analysed by male and female university teachers as independent samples. Keywords: Work life balance, University, Teachers, 1. Introduction Work/life is commonly referred to as work and family. To balance between the family responsibilities...

Words: 6862 - Pages: 28

Premium Essay

Organization Behaior

...Organizational behavior Q1. What are the causes of stress to Phil’s life? Give evidence from the case to support your views. Firstly, it is the work overload stressors. For the case mentioned, Phil worked six days a week. He worked for too many hours per week and his workload was heavy. Also, as Phil was one of six vice-presidents, he needed to maintain and build a positive image to his colleges and subordinates. Therefore, he might demand himself to do better. Secondly, it is the low task control stressors. It means the jobs required high responsibilities. Phil had many important responsibilities. He might need to have some important meetings. Or he might need to decide a long term strategy and goals within the company. Besides, he wanted to be promoted but the competition was quite keen. Finally, it is the work family conflicts. As Phil used too much time on work so he might ignore the communication in the family. He had insufficient time to satisfy his non-work roles of being a father. For example, he had nothing to say with his daughter. He may feel stress for that. Q2 What are the consequences of the above stressors to Phil’s professional (work) and personal life? Firstly, Phil didn’t have time to relax. Besides golf game, he had no ‘extracurricular interests’. Just sit in front of the computer and lack of enough exercise would lead to some health problems like heart diseases, especially he was in the middle age. Secondly, Phil might have some health...

Words: 698 - Pages: 3

Premium Essay

Emotional Intelligence

...relationships Goleman (1995). Researchers today are interested in finding the effects of emotional intelligence on employees and thereby, organizations, and analyzing the various other facets of EQ. Emotional intelligence improves individual and organizational performance. It plays a significant role in the kind of work an employee produces, and the relationship he or she enjoys in the organization. Work – Life Balance is a challenging issue for IT leaders, managers and has also attracted the attention of researchers. Work/life balance, in its broadest sense, is defined as a satisfactory level of involvement or ‘fit’ between the multiple roles in a person’s life. In this climate managing the boundary between home and work is becoming more challenging. Organizations need to ensure they not just encourage but mandate a practical and workable work/life balance policy, benefiting and meeting the needs of both the organization and its employees. Organizations not providing real opportunity for employees work/life balance are opening themselves up to increasing numbers of dissatisfied and unproductive employees and hence increased attrition rates. Merely creating a work/life policy framework is not enough; fostering an organizational...

Words: 2390 - Pages: 10

Free Essay

Business Management Method

...of the company 5 1.2 Products and brand name 6 1.3 Business Objectives 6 1.4 HSBC bank to commitments to its employees 7 1.5 Human resource manager system 8 II. RESEARCH INTRODUCTION 9 2.1 Problem statement 9 2.2 Main construct 9 2.3 Research objective 9 2.4 Research questions 10 CHARPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 11 I. JOB STRESS 11 II. TYPES OF JOB STRESS 13 CHARPTER III: RESEARCH MODEL AND HYPOTHESES 16 I. RESEARCH MODEL 16 II. RESEARCH HYPOTHESES 17 2.1. Work Interference With Family and Family interference with work. 17 2.2 Job –Family Role Strain Scale……………………………………………......19 2.3 Work to family Conflict Scale 21 CHARPTER IV: RESEARCH METHODS 24 I. RESEARCH DESIGN 24 II. RESEARCH METHODS 24 2.1 Data collection method 24 2.2 Measures 24 2.2.1 Work interference With Family and Family interference with work…….25 2.2.2 Job- Family Role Strain Scales 28 2.2.3 Work to family conflict 29 2.2.4 Control over areas of work and familu 31 III. DATA ANALYSIS AND REPORT 33 3.1 Demographic Characteristics of the Respondents 34 3.2 Reliability Analysis 36 3.3 Descriptive Analysis 38 3.4 Correlation of all Variables Statistics 39 3.5 Hypothesis Testing 40 CHARPTER V: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 45 I. DISCUSSION...

Words: 12613 - Pages: 51

Free Essay

Knowing Yourself

...achievement,” where my favor of seeing successful people fall was 24 and 47 for seeing successful people rewarded. Basically what it says is that I think highly of people who become successful and believe they deserve all the benefits that come along with success. This is true about me because I am all for success and I feel like if I work really hard at it that I deserve the outcome. I guess the 24 points of my favor in them falling come from the question I answered no to them being publicly glorified. Just because you are successful doesn’t mean you deserve to be put on a pedestal above anyone else I also took an assessment on my “ethic value”. Where I averaged out with most people, and on the “what time of the day I am the most productive,” I scored a 37 meaning I am intermediate when I have something not so important to do I am an evening person but as far as working I rather get it out the way early so I can have the evening with my family because in the morning my children are in school so its best that we are all home together, on the “am I experiencing work family conflict,” I scored 24 meaning work doesn’t completely make my family life miserable but it has its affects on it, and a few minor changes can help out to calm...

Words: 410 - Pages: 2

Free Essay

Work – Family Conflict and Emotions: Effects at Work and at Home

...PSY 2404 2/12/2016 Article Review: Work – Family Conflict and Emotions: Effects At Work and At Home I did not like reading this article because it reminded me of times where conflicts at home have affected my performance at work. Although it is common practice to leave your problems at home while at work, it is most definitely inevitable that those thoughts of the problem at home will arise while at your place of work. While working at a sales and marketing firm called Coast 2 Coast Marketing, it was imperative for me to keep a high PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) to perform well in the sales aspect of the position. The times where I had conflicts at home or worries about things at home would definitely affect my performance at work. I was not the only one also. I would see these same patterns in my recruits (The Spartans). While they were going through conflicts at home, they were more likely to get irritated by certain tasks I would assign to them, or be somewhere else completely mentally instead of focusing on the task at hand. There was one instance where a recruit of mine felt guilty about a home situation at work (he had stolen money out of his mother’s purse due to not having enough to get to work let alone buy food etc.) and I offered to talk to him about what was bothering him. After spilling his guts to me, I offered him some money and advised him to call me or ask me before the end of the day if he needed any money so that way he does not have to steal from his...

Words: 357 - Pages: 2

Premium Essay

International Business

...Community, Work & Family, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2003 •^ "^ | ^ Carfax Publishing ' f / V Taylor & Francis Croup Work- and family-related variables, work-family conflict and women's well-being: some observations NORAINI M. NOOR Department of Psychology, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The present study was carried out to test an exploratory model consisting of three sets of variables (demographic, personality and work- and family-related variables) in the prediction of well-being. The model also provided a test of the indirect effect of these variables on well-being, via perceptions of work-family conflict. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were used. In a sample of 147 employed British women with children, the results showed that these three sets of variables had both direct and indirect influence on well-being. Although work-related variables explained the most variance in the prediction of workinterfering-with-family conflict and job satisfaction, personality variables accounted for the most variance in the prediction of family-interfering-with-work conflict. Similarly, in the prediction of distress symptoms, demographic variables accounted for the most variance. The qualitative responses provided by the women complemented these findings. The proposed model appears to provide a better fit of the complex relationships that may exist between the many variables encompassing women's work and family lives than previous ones that have considered...

Words: 5664 - Pages: 23