The role of working hours on work-life conflict

Abstract

Purpose-In today's increasingly competitive conditions, businesses are pushing more and more to transform assets into higher value added assets and to maintain their core competencies on a sustainable scale. In this context, institutional abilities will have a close semantic relationship with the characteristics of the characteristics of the assets. With an increasingly recognized approach, intellectual capital sees businesspeople as one of the most important assets they possess, and they can redefine the roles that employees can take to maintain their competitive position, depending on the changing internal and external environmental conditions. In this sense, a situational variable faced by employees is the workload and the work / private life conflict that will arise therefrom. The main purpose of this work is to perceive the workload in a working dimension and to measure how often the work / private life conflict will be experienced at work due to the weekly working hours measured objectively. Methodology-In the study, 303 participants were selected through convenience-sampling method and the working hours data of 129 participants could have been obtained. Business-family conflict was measured by 10-item scales that developed by Netenmayer through two subscales that work-family and family-work. Findings-Work intensity was measured with using 4 items of scale developed by Karasek (1990). Correlation and regression analysis were performed after the normality tests of the data. Conclusion-According to research findings, there was no explanatory effect of working hours in the experience of work-private life conflict and the perceived workload was positive for both sides of the conflict.