Jurnal Siasat Bisnis
Vol 23, No 1 (2019)

The effect of work-family conflict and flexible work arrangement on turnover intention: do female and male employees differ?

Nastyalita Gunaprasida (Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Amin Wibowo (Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Jul 2019

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of work-family conflict, and flexible work arrangements as moderating variable on the intention to leave for female and male employees.  The population in this study is hotel employees in Yogyakarta. The sample population chosen was hotel employee who has married, has children, and does not live with parents and parent in-law. Overall, work-family conflict positively influenced intention to leave. There is difference result in regard to moderating variable, as for the female employees a flexible work arrangement moderates the relationship between work-family conflict and turnover intention, while for male workers the moderating effect is not significant. The practical implication is turnover intention can be avoided by creating and developing comfortable work condition and environment where supervisor and colleagues are supporting each other. By developing a comfortable atmosphere, it is expected that negative emotions triggering work-family conflict will be eliminated so employees do not have any reason to leave the organization anymore, especially to women employees. This study offers a new insight which gender might take important roles in the utilization of flexible work arrangements. It is suggested for future research that considering sample population from other industries such as banking industry and hospital may make research more generalizable.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JSB

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal Siasat Bisnis (JSB) is a peer review journal published twice a year (January and July) by Management Development Centre (MDC)-Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia. JSB) addresses the broad area of management science and its applications in industry and ...