Title: Exploring the relationships between the organisational flexible work arrangements and the directionality of work-family conflict

Authors: Mohammad Mizanur Rahman; Mohammad Jamal Uddin; Adedeji Babatunji Samuel; Md. Saidur Rahaman

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh ' Department of Business Administration, Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh ' Department of Accounting, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria ' Department of Business Administration, Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Abstract: This study has explored the relationships between the dimensions of organisational flexible work arrangements (FWA) and the directionality of work-family conflict. In addition, the study has also focused on the organisational strategy based on flexible policy to mitigate work-family conflict. A cross-sectional design with a self-administrated questionnaire was adopted to collect data from 313 academics of private universities in Bangladesh. However, to explore the research observations and findings of this study, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The researchers found that the specific form of flexibility (flex-time and flex-place) and the directions of work-family conflict (work to family conflict and family to work conflict) make the difference in their effects though the overall effects are small in magnitude. If top management and higher authority of private universities want to arrange FWA policy for their academics they can use the findings of the study.

Keywords: flexible work arrangement; FWA; flex-time; flex-place; work-family conflict; WFC; family-work conflict.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2022.121593

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2022 Vol.26 No.2, pp.179 - 195

Received: 01 Jun 2019
Accepted: 01 Nov 2019
Published online: 21 Mar 2022 *

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