[01] John N. N. Ugoani, College of Management and Social Sciences, Rhema University, Aba, Nigeria.

The study was designed to explore the magnitude and dimensional direction of the relationship between work (family) conflict balance and employee commitment. Work (family) conflict balance relate to the processes to mediate over the tensions, challenges and struggles employees may perceive or feel related to their role expectations, duties or requirements, and behaviours in, for and between each role in both domains. A practical reason for the need of balance between the role behaviour in both domains is that employers who do not foster a more balanced work-family life for employees contribute to stress and tension in employees’ personal lives, which affect their ability to concentrate, their loyalty and commitment. The balancing act between work (family) conflict is not an elusive and unattainable goal, rather it requires social, psychological and emotional knowledge of the needs of the employees to promote their commitment. Finding this balance appears to be difficult and requires successful management of conflicting demands and employees’ degree of satisfaction with the decisions to lead to balance. The sample comprised of 483 participants generated from the general population in Nigeria. A questionnaire adapted from the original measure of work-family conflict by Carlson and his colleagues was used to generate data. Data were analyzed by descriptive and Chi-Square statistical techniques. The results showed strong dimension of positive relationship between work (family) conflict balance and employee commitment.

Work (Family) Conflict Balance, Employee Commitment, Elusive and Unattainable Goal, Psychological Wellbeing, Social and Economic Needs

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