Cross‐cultural differences on work‐to‐family conflict and role satisfaction: A Taiwanese‐British comparison |
| |
| Authors: | Luo Lu Cary L. Cooper Shu‐Fang Kao Ting‐Ting Chang Tammy D. Allen Laurent M. Lapierre Michael P. O'Driscoll Steven A. Y. Poelmans Juan I. Sanchez Paul E. Spector |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. National Taiwan University, Taiwan;2. Lancaster University, England;3. Academy of Social Sciences;4. British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy;5. and The Sunningdale Institute;6. Department of Applied Psychology, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan;7. Lung Hwa University of Science and Technology, Taiwan;8. University of South Florida;9. University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management;10. University of Waikato, New Zealand;11. IESE Business School ‐ University of Navarra, Spain;12. Florida International University |
| |
| Abstract: | The aim of this research was to explore relations between work and family demands and resources, work‐to‐family conflict (WFC), and work and family outcomes in a cross‐cultural comparative context involving Taiwanese and British employees. Two‐hundred and sixty‐four Taiwanese employees and 137 British employees were surveyed using structured questionnaires. For both Taiwanese and British employees, work and family demands were positively related to WFC, whereas work resources were negatively related to WFC. Furthermore, WFC was negatively related to family satisfaction. More importantly, we found that nation moderated relationships between work resources and WFC, WFC and work, and family satisfaction. Specifically, work resources had a stronger protective effect for Taiwanese than British in reducing WFC, whereas WFC had a stronger detrimental effect on role satisfaction for British than Taiwanese. It is recommended that both culture‐general and culture‐specific effects should be taken into consideration in designing future WFC research and familyfriendly managerial practices. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
| |
| Keywords: | work‐to‐family conflict (WFC) work constraints family responsibility supervisory support family help work satisfaction family satisfaction |
|
|
