Relation of work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict with the employee performance-moderating role of job satisfaction

Abstract

Purpose

People in both the developing and developed worlds now face issues like work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict and perceived employee performance with job satisfaction serving as a moderating variable.

Design/methodology/approach

The object of this study is a full-time teaching faculty. Responses from 280 young university teaching faculty serving in public-sector universities in Islamabad, Pakistan, were investigated by applying linear regression analysis to test six hypotheses.

Findings

The results show that work-life balance and work-family conflict have a positive effect on employee performance. Job satisfaction has moderating effects on the relationships between work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict with perceived employee performance.

Originality/value

The study presents some unique results, which are different from previous studies such as work-family conflict has a positive significant effect on employee performance, family-work conflict has no significant effect on employee performance, and job satisfaction can be a negative moderator between these relations.

Citation

Soomro, A.A., Breitenecker, R.J. and Shah, S.A.M. (2018), "Relation of work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict with the employee performance-moderating role of job satisfaction", South Asian Journal of Business Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 129-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/SAJBS-02-2017-0018