Work-family conflict in Pakistan: juggling of activities on personal values and commitments. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saher, Noreen; Matloob, Tasmia; Tahreen, Fariya; Ali, Shazia Safdar; Al Sulim, Galya H.
• Is Part Of: Middle East journal of management. Volume 1:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 28
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: working women -- work-family conflict -- Pakistan -- coping mechanism -- individual values and commitment; Management -- Middle East -- Periodicals; Organizational effectiveness -- Middle East -- Periodicals; Organizational behavior -- Middle East -- Periodicals; 658.00956
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2050-3636

Abstract

Work-family conflict has become a buzz word in the contemporary world of international political economy. The intensity of this phenomenon has attracted attention of researchers; consistently, fair amount of scholarship is available in this domain at national as well as international level. In contemporary Pakistan, work-life conflict has become an emerging issue as well and many researches have been conducted. But no research has exclusively focused on work-family conflict faced by married working women and their conflict management style from personal value and commitment perspective. This paper focuses this research gap. The aim of this paper is to explore the ways through which married working women manage this phenomenon of work-family conflict. To meet the targets of this research, qualitative research methodology was employed. Face to face in-depth interviews were conducted to get insight of the respondents on the issue at hand. Thematic analysis was used for research data analysis and personal opinions of the respondents were used for the sake of result validity. Research implications and future research direction will also be given in this paper.