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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

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Session: 1490: Family Matters: Family as a Source of Stress and Well-Being

1490: Navigating Work and Family Conflicts: How Embeddedness Shapes Satisfaction (21043)

Monday, August 12, 2024
13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Swissotel: Alpine II
Session Number: 1490
Paper Session
Orientation: Practice,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/4RYb6Q
The challenge of balancing work demands with personal life is a prevalent issue in today's workforce, often resulting in conflicts that can diminish job satisfaction. Due to this practical concern, this study seeks to understand how community and work embeddedness—an individual's sense of belonging—interact with family-work conflict (FWC) and work-family conflict (WFC) to affect job satisfaction. This issue was addressed by two studies with different U.S. employee samples. The first study (n =396) examined how FWC, WFC, and embeddedness to work and community affect general job satisfaction in our theoretical model. The second study (n =277) examined job satisfaction factors as a dependent variable. The study shows that community and work embeddedness boost job satisfaction and that FWC and WFC complexly affect these dynamics. The studies reveal how personal life conflicts and professional embeddedness affect the nuances of job satisfaction. This paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for theory and practice, acknowledging the research's limitations, and offering managers targeted recommendations.

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