Work-Family Conflict of Women Employees (Special Reference to Banking Sector) in Batticaloa District

Abstract

The question of how to strike a balance between work and life is attracting increasing attention at both the national and international level (Crompton and Lyonette, 2006). Interest in this issue has grown with the increase in dual career couples and single-parent households and the concomitant decrease in traditional single income families. As long as the society continues to emphasize a woman?s basic role as that of mothering, working women will face role struggles. As married working women, many women employees have to assume multiple roles in the family in addition to their career. They must be bear major responsibility for household chores and childcare. These responsibilities give rise to work-family conflict, which becomes an obstacle in managing their employment. This research studies the work-family conflict among married women employees in banking sector. The data for this study came from 100 married women in public and private banks who responded to a self-administered questionnaire. By using the primary data, the researchers tend to find out the extent of work characteristics and family characteristics influence on the Work-Family conflict. The work characteristics include Number of hours worked, work flexibility, work stressors. The family characteristics include number of children, age of children, family support. ICBI 2011 Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies 2 The researchers used the questionnaire to collect the primary data. Also researchers used interview method to clarify the things. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse the data, Mean and standard deviation was used in the descriptive statistics to find out the influence of each factor in the dependent variable, stress. And the correlation and regression was done to find out the relationship between independent and dependent variable. The SPSS 14.0 package was used to analyze the data. From the discussion of the findings, several implications arouse. There is a need for greater spouse support, flexible work schedule child care centers and family support in order to alleviate work-family conflict. Maintenance of good marital relations is important in reducing spouse conflict and increasing well being in women employee.