Community demands and resources in work-life conflict

• Main Author: Siti Noor Haizan, Manari
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2011
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10888/1/Noor%20%28.24pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10888/8/Noor%20%28ft%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10888/

The purpose of this research is to identify the community demands and resources factors in work-life conflict. The community demands and resources in this research are friends, local comunities and neighbours. The research has been conducted in one of the organization in State Public Service involving 75 respondents with quantitative method. Questionnaires with 5 likert-scale has been distributed to the respondents. The analysis was done to identify the relationship between the independent variables; commuity demands and resources with dependent variables; work family conflict and family-work conflict. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to analyse the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variables as a whole) Beside that, it was also used to analyse the relationship between the factors in community demands and resources such as friends, local communities and neighbours with the dependent variables which are work family conflict and family-work conflict. The Multiple Linear Regression was used to analyse the relationship between one dependent variable with few independent variables and to determine whether those independent variables can be used to predict the dependent variable. To identify the level of work-life conflict, the Visual Binning method was used and the level of conflict can be divided into low, moderate and high. The analysis results showed that all independent variables did not have significant relationship with the dependent variables, meanwhile only friends factor in community demands have a significant relationship with family-work conflict. From the Multiple Linear Regression analysis results, all the independent variables did not have significant relationship with the dependent variable and failed to predict the dependent variable. Based on community demands and resources, the level of conflict for work family is low meanwhile for family-work conflict is moderate. From these findings, the recommendations were made to the organization, the employees and for future researcher. To the organization, it is recommended to get their employees more involve and support on community activities, to the employees, it is recommended to get more involve in activities conducted by local communities in order to reduce their conflict level and for future researcher, this research is for guideline and reference in conducting similar research in other organization and to do research on other community demands and resources factors such as colleagues, social incoherence, unsafe neighbourhood and neighbourhood attachment.