Exploring the mediating role of job and life satisfaction between workfamily conflict, familywork conflict and turnover intention
- Title
- Exploring the mediating role of job and life satisfaction between workfamily conflict, familywork conflict and turnover intention
- Creator
- Poulose J.; Sharma V.
- Description
- Purpose: This study investigates the influence of work-to-family and family-to-work conflict on turnover intention (career break), mediated through job and life satisfaction among Indian women in the service sector, using role conflict theory as the base. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 421 usable responses from women who had taken a career break were collected using a 36-item scale from six major metro cities in India through social and digital media platforms. A purposive-cum-snowballing sampling method was adopted. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS. Findings: Findings suggest that job satisfaction (JS) is a significant predictor of turnover intention, both when work spills into the family domain, and family responsibilities spill into the work domain, thereby confirming the mediating influence of JS. Interestingly, life satisfaction (LS) only seems to mediate between inter-domain conflict and turnover intention partially. Research limitations/implications: This is a descriptive study, and is thereby limited in terms of its generalizability, specifically as it included respondents only from six major metro cities in India. Practical implications: The extended work-family conflict model could help managers structure organizational interventions that support women to deal with the challenges of managing the demands of both work and family domains, thereby reducing the negative influence on JS. Such initiatives could help reduce career breaks among women. Originality/value: We explored the cause of career breaks among Indian urban women employed in the service sector, using the extended model of inter-role conflict and their attitudes towards both life and job. 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Source
- Evidence-based HRM
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Subject
- Employee retention; Family-to-work conflict; Inter-role conflict theory; Job satisfaction; Life satisfaction; Turnover intention; Women workforce; Work-to-family conflict
- Coverage
- Poulose J., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Sharma V., Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 20493983
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Poulose J.; Sharma V., “Exploring the mediating role of job and life satisfaction between workfamily conflict, familywork conflict and turnover intention,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed April 29, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/13564.