Abstract:
Work-family conflict has been come in to play in most individuals’ lives since it creates
negative effects for organizations’ as well as individuals’ well being and behaviour.
Current study focused on work interference with family conflict which is one
dimension of the construct of work-family conflict. Since work interference with family
conflict was found as the problem in Orit Apparels Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd. - Seethawaka 03
which derived through a preliminary survey. This study examined the impact of work
related social support, job involvement, and working time on work interference with
family conflict. Population in this study accounted for 349 employees where the sample
comprised of 191 employees and the stratified random sampling method applied to
select the sample. Self-administered structured questionnaire was employed to assess
all the variables of the study. Both Minitab 16 and SPSS 21 software packages were used
in data analysis. Statistical results from multiple regression analysis indicated that
work related social support was negatively impact on work interference with family
conflict. Job involvement was found as an antecedent which also impact on work
interference with family conflict. On the other hand, working time was found to have
no significant impact on work interference with family conflict. Among the significant
variables the highest impact on work interference with family conflict was indicated by
job involvement. As future research directions, it would be beneficial to expand the
research done on work interference with family conflict in the garment industry in Sri
Lanka since that sector having the issue among all levels of employees as well as the
antecedents relevant to family domain would be further take into consideration.
Findings also emphasize the managers to take necessary steps to derive more family
friendly policies in organizational context in order to reduce work interference with
family conflict.
