IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ora/journl/v1y2017i1p893-900.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Do Conflict And Balance Between Work And Family Effect Organizational Citizenship Behavior? Comparative Study Of Single And Dual Earner Couples

Author

Listed:
  • Sehar Zulfiqar

    (University of Debrecen)

Abstract

Modern organizations define a good employee as one who performs more than the required duties and responsibilities that are identified in the job description Thus, employees are expected not merely to concentrate on in-role behaviors, but also emphasize on extra-role behaviors that lead towards increasing organizational effectiveness. These extra-role behaviors are commonly termed as organizational citizenship behavior. But when employees are expected to perform more than what is part of their job description one should not forget the challenges associated with balancing work and home responsibilities. This debate is more relevant, especially in the context when the trend of professional women getting married to professional men is increasing which is contributing to the increase in dual-earner couples. These changing traditional roles of men and women has increased the likelihood of work-family conflict for dual earner couples. In order to balance the conflicting requirements of work and family roles, employee and organizations develop different strategies that are termed as work-life balance strategies. This research is intended to extend this discussion by serving two objectives: 1) study the how the conflict and balance between work and family are related to organizational citizenship behavior and 2) compare how these relationships vary across the single and dual-earner couples. This research is descriptive and analytical in nature. The present study is carried out in a survey design. Participants of this study were the married academics of various universities across Rawalpindi and Islamabad. 250 questionnaires were distributed among participants randomly, 200 of which were properly filled and were employed in the concluding analysis. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to test the association among the variables and Independent Sample T-Test was conducted to test the differences among the single and dual-earner couples. The findings of the study revealed that work-family conflict negatively and work-life balance positively predicted organizational citizenship behavior. Whereas single earner couples reported the more balance and less conflict in work and family roles and show more participation in organizational citizenship behavior as compare to dual-earner couples.

Suggested Citation

  • Sehar Zulfiqar, 2017. "Do Conflict And Balance Between Work And Family Effect Organizational Citizenship Behavior? Comparative Study Of Single And Dual Earner Couples," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 893-900, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2017:i:1:p:893-900
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://anale.steconomiceuoradea.ro/volume/2017/n1/92.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Diana Doumas & Gayla Margolin & Richard John, 2008. "Spillover Patterns in Single-earner Couples: Work, Self-care, and the Marital Relationship," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 29(1), pages 55-73, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kuo-Liang Chang & George Langelett & Andrew Waugh, 2011. "Health, Health Insurance, and Decision to Exit from Farming," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 32(2), pages 356-372, June.
    2. Linda Niehm & Keila Tyner & Mack Shelley & Margaret Fitzgerald, 2010. "Technology Adoption in Small Family-Owned Businesses: Accessibility, Perceived Advantage, and Information Technology Literacy," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 31(4), pages 498-515, December.
    3. Daphne Pedersen & Krista Minnotte, 2012. "Dual Earner Husbands and Wives: Marital Satisfaction and the Workplace Culture of Each Spouse," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 272-282, September.
    4. Jason Murasko, 2008. "Married Women’s Labor Supply and Spousal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Results from Panel Data," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 29(3), pages 391-406, September.
    5. Robert Tuttle & Michael Garr, 2009. "Self-Employment, Work–Family Fit and Mental Health Among Female Workers," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 282-292, September.
    6. Daphne Pedersen & Krista Minnotte & Gary Kiger & Susan Mannon, 2009. "Workplace Policy and Environment, Family Role Quality, and Positive Family-to-Work Spillover," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 30(1), pages 80-89, March.
    7. David Zimmer, 2009. "Insurance Arrangements Among Married Couples: Analysis of Benefit Substitution and Compensating Differentials," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 30(4), pages 428-439, December.
    8. Scott Hall & Shelley MacDermid, 2009. "A Typology of Dual Earner Marriages Based on Work and Family Arrangements," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 215-225, September.
    9. Leila Karimi & Aboulghasem Nouri, 2009. "Do Work Demands and Resources Predict Work-to-Family Conflict and Facilitation? A Study of Iranian Male Employees," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 30(2), pages 193-202, June.
    10. Karina Shreffler & Amy Pirretti & Robert Drago, 2010. "Work–Family Conflict and Fertility Intentions: Does Gender Matter?," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 228-240, June.
    11. Robert Tuttle & Michael Garr, 2012. "Shift Work and Work to Family Fit: Does Schedule Control Matter?," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 261-271, September.
    12. Krista Minnotte & Michael Minnotte & Jordan Bonstrom, 2015. "Work–Family Conflicts and Marital Satisfaction Among US Workers: Does Stress Amplification Matter?," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 21-33, March.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB); Single/Dual-Earner Couples; Work-Family Conflict (WFC); Work-Life Balance (WLB);
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2017:i:1:p:893-900. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catalin ZMOLE (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feoraro.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.