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What is Work–Family Conflict

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Handbook of Research on Global Business Opportunities
Means when there are incompatible demands between the work and family roles of an individual that makes participation in both roles more difficult.
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The Effects of Work-Family Conflict on Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment: A Study in Turkish Pharmaceutical Industry
I. Efe Efeoğlu (Adana Science and Technology University, Turkey) and Musa Sanal (Cukurova University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6551-4.ch010
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to investigate the effects of work-family conflict on the employees' attitudes towards their jobs and their behaviours in the workplace within the framework of job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment concepts in the Turkish Pharmaceutical Industry. The data used in this study were obtained by the questionnaire survey method. One of the results of this study reveals that work-family conflict and work to family conflict have positive effects on job stress. However, family to work conflict has no effect on job stress. Secondly, work-family conflict and work to family conflict have positive effects on job satisfaction, while no evidence has been found regarding the effects of family to work conflict on job satisfaction. Thirdly, work-family conflict and work to family conflict have negative effects on organizational commitment while no evidence has been found regarding the effects of work to family conflict on organizational commitment.
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