Abstract:

Work and family are the two concepts that people give importance utmost importance in their lives. One of the factors that influence today’s work lives is the conflict employees have between their family lives and work lives. Work stress has a critical place in terms of the performance, productivity, job satisfaction and social relations of employees. This study was conducted among sugar factory employees to examine the relations between work stress factors and work- family conflict. Besides, the relations between the variables in question and socio-economic variables have also been studied. Questionnaire technique was used for the study. The result of the study shows that there is a low and negative relation between work stress factors and work- family conflict; positive and meaningful relations between work control and social support, factors of work stress. It is seen that the work responsibilities of employees do not affect their family lives. Moreover, the employees state that they are content with social support items the most. There is no difference between work stress and work- family conflict in terms of demographic variables, gender, marital status, age, income and number of children. Those working three shifts have relatively more work- family conflict when compared with those working day shift on a permanent basis. It is seen that the civil servants have more decision- making rights and workloads than do the workers, as to the education variable, elementary schools graduates have fewer decision- making rights than do university graduates.]]>

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