IMPACT OF WORK-LIFE CONFLICT ON EMPLOYEES JOB SATISFACTION : THE CASE OF MAEREG BUSINESS GROUP

Abstract

The study was aimed to examine the effect of work life conflict on job satisfaction in one of uprising industrial organization in Ethiopia. More specifically the study attempts to investigate the impact of work-family conflict, family-work conflict, and work over load and job autonomy on employee’s job satisfaction in the case of Maereg Business Group. In order to investigate the study the researcher has used quantitative research methods that included a survey of employees. Pertinent data were gathered via structured questioner and processed by using SPSS version 24. The relationship between of work-family conflict, family-work conflict, work over load and job autonomy were analyzed using reveal correlation analysis. Finally, multiple regressions were done to understand the impact of work-life conflict, on employee job satisfaction. The regression result shows that there is a linear relationship between the dependent and independent variable. The result in the ANOVA confirmed the significance of pvalue which is below the alpha level. The results showed that job satisfaction is negatively correlated with work-to-family interference and family-to-work interference. Job satisfaction was also found to be negatively related with work-over-load in this research. However, the correlation of job autonomy is positive and significant. From the study results the researcher recommends the organization employees to try and maintain a balance between work and family life conflict, the organization should create a policy to minimize absenteeism, lateness and turnover rates as well as improve workers loyalty, commitment and job satisfaction, more importantly the management of the organization must proactively identify and understand demographic and work related factors like age, marital status, gender, work hours/time schedules etc. that cause work life conflict.