Title: Middling role of social support between work family conflict and job satisfaction among professional women in Tamil Nadu

Authors: S. Sakthivelrani; K. Ragles Devi

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, 626126, India ' Department of Business Administration, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, 626126, India

Abstract: In today's era, the business success relies on the worker skills and capabilities. Now a day work-family conflicts is turning into expanded consideration due to work pressure and family responsibilities. The primary objective of the study is to find out the influence of work-family strife and social support on job satisfaction among the employees. This study examines the extent of work-family conflict among respondents on the premise of occupation and marital status. This study additionally verifies the impact of work-family conflict and social support on job satisfaction. Questionnaire technique was accustomed to collect the data and every data were analysed using SPSS t-test, one way analysis of variance, correlation and structural equation modelling (SEM) was utilised in this study. The result shows that the amount of work-family conflict is high among the married women comparing to the unmarried respondents. Job satisfaction among the employees is based on the organisational support providing to them.

Keywords: role salience; work-family conflict; job satisfaction; social support and work-family enrichment.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2017.087956

Electronic Government, an International Journal, 2017 Vol.13 No.4, pp.339 - 355

Received: 16 Nov 2016
Accepted: 13 Feb 2017
Published online: 13 Nov 2017 *

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