Assessing the impact of gender on work & family conflict: An empirical study of private sector managers

Married employees are typically part of dual career couple. Married female employees find it difficult to fulfill the commitment to home, spouse, children, parents and friends. They are increasingly recognizing that work is infringing on their personal lives. Recent studies suggest that employees want jobs that give them flexibility in their work schedules so that they can better manage work-life conflicts. Organizations that don't help their employees achieve work-life balance will find it increasingly difficult to attract and retain the most capable and motivated employees. Review of literature disclosed a paucity of survey research on private sector managers in context to their work-life balance. The study with a sample of 250 managers from Private Sector Organizations attempted to identify the gender and domain differences among managers in the current scenario. Findings indicated that work family conflict was more prevalent than family work conflict for managers and females experienced higher amount of work-family conflict as compared to their male counterparts. The study therefore, suggested that organizations realize the importance of family friendly work arrangements to highlight more emotional and organizational support as well as better resources and opportunity to extend collaborative relationship among managers in context to work-life balance, in the interest of enhancement of effectiveness at individual level in particular and organizational level in general.