Open AccessWork-Life Conflict and Organizational Commitment: A Study Of Female Faculty In Higher Education
Author(s) -
Sobia Shujaat,
Iram Tahir,
Akhtar Baloch
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pakistan journal of gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8886
pISSN - 2072-0394
DOI - 10.46568/pjgs.v19i1.83
Subject(s) - organizational commitment , contingency table , test (biology) , psychology , social psychology , population , continuance , sociology , demography , mathematics , statistics , paleontology , biology
This study was conducted to discover the impact of work-life conflict on organizational commitment of female faculty at private universities in Karachi, Pakistan. To test association between the two variables, correlation was used. The results were further corroborated by the use of contingency table. The target population was permanently employed female faculty of private universities. The study was done through interviews and questionnaire survey. The method employed for this purpose wast-test of correlation and chi-square test of association. The study revealed that faculty members at private universities in Karachi had time-based conflict but they did not have strain-based and behaviour-based Conflict. The female faculty were committed to their organizations and the affective commitment showed higher result than continuance and normative commitment. The study reveals that there exists a weak association between two critical variables i.e. work-life conflicts and organizational commitment.