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What is Role Conflict

Chapter 11
Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry
It emerges as the result of the incompatibility of the individual’s roles; expected behavioral role dues to his/her social position and his / her other roles.
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General Overview of Hotel Sector in Context of Precursors and Results of Work-Family Conflicts
Meral Dursun (Batman University, Turkey) and Şule Aydın (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5760-9.ch011
Abstract
The work-family conflict is considered to be one of the most important problems in today's business world. By the situation of un-fulfilment of the requirements of a role while completing the requirements of the other role causes the individuals to live in conflict within the organization or in the family. Especially in the hotel sector, which is a labor-intensive and high turnover sector, it requires more effort than other sectors in order to increase the organizational loyalty, motivation, job satisfaction, and keep the qualified employees. In order to clearly demonstrate the dynamics of work-family conflict in the hotel sector, in this chapter, the concept of work-family conflict is discussed in detail with its causes and consequences, some researches about work-family conflict in the hotel sector in the literature have been examined and evaluations about the topic have been made and suggestions have been developed.
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Chapter 9
Relationship Between Conflict and Deviant Workplace Behavior in Family Business
The family member working in the family business, has different roles as owner of the company, as manager of the department, as member of the family, therefore all these roles conflict with each other.
Published in Chapter: Relationship Between Conflict and Deviant Workplace Behavior in Family Business; From: Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations
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The Road Less Travelled: Challenges Related to the Work-Family Balance of Women Managers in Higher Education
The stressful situation that women face while performing their traditional gender roles of home maker and caregiver of children and elderly along with the modern roles of career woman and administrator. Role conflict is the incompatible expectations within the roles or between the roles. Woman experiences role conflict when she finds to be pulled in various directions while responding to the many statuses held by her.
Published in Chapter: The Road Less Travelled: Challenges Related to the Work-Family Balance of Women Managers in Higher Education; From: Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
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