The Impact of Job Involvement, Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviour, and Perceived Organisation Support on Work-To-Family Conflict

Abstract

Work and family are the two most important domains in adults’ lives. These two domains are not always mutually compatible with one another, which in turn causes work-family conflict. According to the literature, work-family conflict generates many negative consequences to individuals, families, and organisations all over the world. Therefore, a better understanding of how to reduce work-family conflict has become an important area in the current literature. Thus, the researchers initially conducted a preliminary survey to examine the level of work-family conflict of employees at ABC Company (Pvt.) Limited, one of the top business conglomerates in Sri Lanka It was revealed that executive level employees of the company have experienced more work-to-family conflict than family-to-work conflict. Further, many researchers have highlighted the importance of studying job involvement, family supportive supervisor behaviours, and perceived organisation support as still emerging and under researched areas in work-family literature. Therefore, this study aimed to find out whether job involvement, family supportive supervisor behaviours, and perceived organisation support impact on work-to-family conflict among executive level employees at ABC Company (Pvt.) Limited. This study was conducted based on positivistic research paradigm and quantitative research methodology. Further, deductive approach was used and three hypotheses were established in the light of scarcity, identity, and organisational support theories. Survey strategy was applied and 119 were selected out of 172 executive level employees at ABC Company (Pvt.) Limited as the sample of the study using simple random sampling method. Data were gathered through validated and reliable self-administered questionnaire. Data were initially analysed using a multiple regression analysis by considering work-to-family conflict as the dependent variable and job involvement, family supportive supervisor behaviours, and perceived organisation support as three independent variables with the support of SPSS and Minitab software packages. However, family supportive supervisor behaviours and perceived organisation support were rejected from the original model. Therefore, final fitted model was developed using a simple regression analysis. This study found that only the job involvement has a significant positive impact on work-to-family conflict among executive level employees at ABC Company (Pvt.) Limited. Thus, time has come for organisations to develop appropriate strategies to reduce the level of negative spillover from work-to-family without discouraging employee involvement at the work.