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What is Work-Family Conflict

Chapter 10
Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry
It has been defined as a form of inter-role conflict in which the role pressures from work and family domains are mutually imbalanced and it refers to a situation where the demands and responsibilities from work roles and family roles are mutually mismatched in some respect.
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Work-Life Balance in Tourism Industry
F. Gül Turanlıgil (Anadolu University, Turkey) and Muhammad Farooq (Yasar University, Turkey & Neoma Business School, France)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 38
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5760-9.ch010
Abstract
The modern era of competition and commercialization changed working patterns. Paradigm change of competitive global world has caused many challenges and conflicts arising as a result of an increased competition amongst industries. Business has become proactive, aggressive, and demanding in order to stand tall in this competition. Every industry requires workers to be actively involved and devote comprehensively, but specifically, tourism and hospitality requires an extra mile. Workload is different than other industries. Comprehensive view is given on the conditions of hospitality and tourism industry faces keeping up with the contemporary business environment of this sector and how this sector suffers due to the work-life balance conflicts. Furthermore, insights on work-life balance and conflicts that rises on the horizon for hospitality industry worker, difference of work-life balance in this industry, link of performance and balanced work-life, and most importantly, role of human resources policies are given.
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Chapter 16
Women and Work During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Challenges, Intersectionality, and Opportunities
The tension that arises between incompatible demands between family and work responsibilities and obligations, which may result in competing obligations and diminished participation in one sphere to meet the demands in the other sphere.
Published in Chapter: Women and Work During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Challenges, Intersectionality, and Opportunities; From: Multidisciplinary Approach to Diversity and Inclusion in the COVID-19-Era Workplace
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Chapter 8
The Significance of Job Satisfaction in Modern Organizations
The opposition resulting from the perceived differences between individual's work and their family life.
Published in Chapter: The Significance of Job Satisfaction in Modern Organizations; From: Handbook of Research on Human Factors in Contemporary Workforce Development
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Chapter 5
The Impact of Irregular Schedules on Worker Lives: Theoretical Considerations and Implications for Practice
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Chapter 11
Antecedents and Consequences of Work-Family Conflict in the Hospitality Industry
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Chapter 20
Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intention: A Meta-Analysis of the Researches on Tourism
It occurs when a person is unable to balance the roles between work and family or reflects the roles and tensions in the work to his or her family.
Published in Chapter: Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intention: A Meta-Analysis of the Researches on Tourism; From: Organizational Behavior Challenges in the Tourism Industry
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Chapter 11
General Overview of Hotel Sector in Context of Precursors and Results of Work-Family Conflicts
It is tension created by the situation of non- fulfilment of the requirements of a role while completing the requirements of the other role.
Published in Chapter: General Overview of Hotel Sector in Context of Precursors and Results of Work-Family Conflicts; From: Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry
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Chapter 11
Women in Organizations: Challenges for Management
Work-family conflict is a form of inter-role conflict in which the role pressures from the work and family domains are mutually incompatible.
Published in Chapter: Women in Organizations: Challenges for Management; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches in Management and Organizational Strategy
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Chapter 2
Re-Defining Work-Life Boundaries: Individual, Organizational, and National Policy Implications
Occurs when an individual experiences incompatible demands between work and family roles, causing participation in both roles to become more difficult. Researchers have examined the time, strain and behavioral dimensions of work-family conflict as well as directionality (home ® work and work ® home). It is associated with negative outcomes, such as stress, burnout, lower organizational commitment and intention to quit.
Published in Chapter: Re-Defining Work-Life Boundaries: Individual, Organizational, and National Policy Implications; From: Optimizing Data and New Methods for Efficient Knowledge Discovery and Information Resources Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Chapter 13
Women Family Demographics and Work-Life Balance
Conflict in the family life of an employee as a result of excessive work engagement or participation. The source of work-family conflict may be identified as role conflict and strain. Work is not the only source of conflict; family can also be the source of conflict and it occurs when the over engagement at work make it difficult for the employee to discharge the responsibilities at work.
Published in Chapter: Women Family Demographics and Work-Life Balance; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Organizational Resilience During Unprecedented Times
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