Predictors of Work-Family Conflict & Family-Work Conflict: An Exploratory Study among Officers of Defense Manufacturing Companies in India

Work-Family conflict (WFC) occurs when work-role activities interfere with family responsibilities and family-work conflict (FWC) occurs when family-role responsibilities impacts performance at work. The purpose of the paper is to explore how work demands like impact the family domain and home demands like impact work domain. The role of support type in the form of spousal support and self-management in the relationship between work demands and work-family conflict was also investigated. The study is carried out in a different sector - defense Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) as limited study has been conducted in this sector. The sample was comprised of 338 respondents from three public defense manufacturing companies and all of them were officers at various levels. The research instrument was a questionnaire comprising of five parts. The variables were measured under four categories - work demands, self-management, individual use of company support policies and work-family conflict & family-work conflict. The findings showed that work demands, self-management, number of dependents and total experience were significant predictors of workfamily conflict. Multiple regression analysis showed that support type in the form of spousal support and selfmanagement did not show any moderator or mediator effect between work demands and work-family conflict.