Etiology, consequences, and solutions of working women's work-life conflict: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Work-life conflict (WLC) is important in organizational behavior research and human resource management. The present research aimed to investigate the underlying causes, consequences, and solutions to WLC in Iranian working women.

Materials and methods

The present qualitative study was conducted through a content analysis method among 19 working married women in Birjand, a city in the east of Iran, from December 2021 to February 2022. To collect the data, semi-structured interviews were held. The average interview time was 45 minutes, and all interviews were recorded upon the participants' consent. Finally, after coding, the information was analyzed with MAXQDA software.

Findings

The causes of conflict included 4 main categories of individual, interperson

SUBMITTER: Hosseini Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10804774 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature