Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Cognitive Flexibility Among Employees

Abstract

According to Greenhaus and Beutal (1985) Work family conflict is a type of inter-role conflict that occur when the demands of work and family are incompatible, making it different to participate in one role due to the other. Further Miyake et al., (2000); Zelazo, (2015) Cognitive flexibility is the ability to shift attention between task sets, attributes of a stimulus, responses, perspectives or strategies. (Hayri Furkan) conducted study on effects of cognitive flexibility and emotional regulation of work life balance: The mediating role of job crafting. The author recommended implications by presenting a perspective and strategies to increase organizational work life balance. The present study aim to identify the relationship between work family conflict and cognitive flexibility among employees, 100 samples were collected based on random sampling methods in AGP Electronics, Kandamangalam, Villupuram. To collect data regarding cognitive flexibility (CFI) by Dennis, J.P., and Wander wal, J.S(2015) was used and to measure work-family conflict (WAFCS) by Haslam, D., Filus, A., et al (2015) scale were used to collect data. The research formulates the hypothesis that, there will be a significant relationship between Work family conflict and Cognitive flexibility. In order to test the hypothesis correlation is used. The result of the study concluded that there is a negative and significant relationship between the variables Work family conflict and Cognitive flexibility.