Work/Life Conflict Submitted to: Shayla Khanam Assistant Professor- Management School of Business and Economics United International University, Bangladesh Submitted by: Class serial number Name ID 01 Shakil Ahmed 111121572 05 Shagufta Rahman 111151022 07 Sabina Akhter 111151154 12 Taiyeb Ahmed 111151349 13 Maria Haque 111151535
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Work/Life Conflict
Submitted to:Shayla Khanam
Assistant Professor- Management
School of Business and Economics
United International University, Bangladesh
Submitted by:Class serial number Name ID
01 Shakil Ahmed 11112157205 Shagufta Rahman 11115102207 Sabina Akhter 11115115412 Taiyeb Ahmed 11115134913 Maria Haque 111151535
Date of submission: 28th December, 2015
Letter of transmittal
December 28,2015
Ms. Shayla Khanam
Assistant Professor- Management
School of Business and Economics
United International University
Subject: Submission of Report.
Dear Ma’am,
We are pleased to submit the report that you asked for & gave us the authorization to work on
“Work/Life Conflict”. We tried our best to work on it carefully and sincerely to make the
report informative.
The study we conducted enhanced our knowledge to make an executive report. This report
has given us an exceptional experience that might have immense uses in the future endeavors
and we sincerely hope that it would be able to fulfill your expectations.
We have put our sincere effort to give this report a presentable shape and make it as
informative and precise as possible. We thank you for providing us with this unique
opportunity.
Sincerely yours,
Shakil Ahmed
Signature: ………………….
Acknowledgement
It is our esteemed pleasure to present the project report on “Work/Life Conflict”.
We express our deep gratitude to our course guide, Ms. Shayla Khanam
(Assistant Professor- Management, School of Business and Economics), who have
gave us the inspiration to pursue the project and guided us in this endeavor. She has
been a constant source of motivation and encouragement for us. We thank her for all
the initiative and zeal she filled us with throughout the report.
Executive SummaryThe concept of work-life conflict has developed out of demographic and social changes that
negatively resulted in a more diverse and declining workforce and different family/work
models. Work-life conflict is seen as a way of distracting and not supporting the labor force
for their economic well-being.
This review of research and literature in the areas of work-life conflict, work-place culture,
employee engagement, discretionary effort and productivity aims to demonstrate the links
between these factors.
This research includes case study and reviews of number of studies. However, workplace
culture is identified as an intermediary factor in whether work-life conflict is related to
decreased productivity.
Key aspects of workplace culture that negatively affects the link between work-life balance
and productivity are managerial support, career consequences, gender differences in attitudes
and use, attitudes and expectations of hours spent in the workplace and perception of fairness
in eligibility for work-life options.
Although little research has been done specially linking solution for work-life conflict that
“ Most of the time, two days in a week, Friday and Saturday. Because wedding events always take place in holidays. Sometimes more than two days, because we have other stuffs to do, like post processing, giving delivery of photographs and videos to customers”
8. How many hours in a day do you normally work?
“Around 5-6 hours.”
9. How motivating is your work environment?
“ Fairly motivating. Our boss is very well behaved and well organized and has a good monitoring capability. But lacking in maintaining time table and lack of fair wage sometimes tend to be demotivating.”
10. How would you rate your own work-life balance?
“ Very Poor.”
11. What are the possible problem creators both at your professional and personal life that gives rise to issues of work life conflict?
“I’m facing a great deal of timing problem in my work. I can’t give time to my family, to my child. I’m facing transportation problem as I have no car of my own and I have to work till late at night and my husband is always feeling uncomfortable about it. And what amount of wage I’m getting from this job, isn’t enough to maintain my family or to carry out my personal expenses. Also, I’m facing discrimination with my male co-workers, my boss doesn’t provide me with good pay raise, off hours and bonuses as I have to work hard and over time. Also work pressure is getting a big issue in my job.”
12. How much difficulty do you have in getting the balance that is right for you?
“A lot of difficulties”
13. How often do you think or worry about work when you are not actually at work place?
“Always I have tension of my pending works, like post processing or giving delivery of photographs to the customers.”
14. Are you regularly required to work at home?
“Yes in every working day I have to make it early through my home as my husbands have to go to his office too, so there is no one to watch out my baby. So I have to do my pending works in home.”
15. Do you ever miss out on quality time with your family or your friends because of pressure of work?
“All the time”
16. Does work ever have a negative effect on your personal life like tiredness, depression, anxiety ?
“Very often”
17. Does your company have a separate policy for work-life balance?
“No they are not aware of that.”
18. Overall how satisfied are you with Metro Weddings as an employee?
“I’m pretty much dissatisfied.”
19. Do you feel secured about your job?
“ Actually no.”
20. Do you have any other female co-worker?
“Yes I have a female co-worker who works as an event manager here.”
21. Is she facing the same problems as you?
“Yes. She is an undergraduate student, she is facing problems same as me as she can’t concentrate well in her studies and in her family.”
22. Do you think your fellow male co-workers facing the same problems as you?
“No they are not.”
Questionnaire-21. Age: 24
2. Gender: Male
3. Are you married?
“No, I am not.”
4. What is your designation in this company?
“I’m a cinematographer here.”
5. What type of organization is it?
“It’s an event management agency.”
6. How many days in a week do you normally work?
“Two days in a week, Friday and Saturday. Sometimes more than that, because we have to give time in our office where we have to do editing of video clips and give delivery of them to the customers.”
7. How many hours in a day do you normally work?
“Around 5 to 6 hours.”
8. How motivating is your work environment?
“Not so motivating. Our boss does not maintain time schedule well”
9. How would you rate your own work-life balance?
“Not good.”
10. What are the possible problem creators both at your professional and personal life that gives rise to issues of work life conflict?
“I can’t give time to time personal life. I can’t focus on my studies as I am an undergraduate student. I can’t give time to my family and can’t attend social gatherings. The wage that I am getting from this job is not enough to carry out the expenses of my
studies and my personal expenses. There is no scope for getting bonus for extra hours or over time. Also the pressure of work load is very high.
11. How much difficulty do you have in getting the balance that is right for you?
“ Pretty much difficulties.”
12. How often do you think or worry about work when you are not actually at work place?
“I don’t actually worry about my work so much because I spend enough time in office to complete my pending works.”
13. Are you regularly required to work at home?
“Not regularly but sometimes I have to attend classes so those days I need to complete my pending works at home.”
14. Do you ever miss out on quality time with your family or your friends because of pressure of work?
“Yes sometime.”
15. Does work ever have a negative effect on your personal life like tiredness, depression, anxiety ?
“Not really.”
16. Does your company have a separate policy for work-life balance?
“No they don’t have.”
17. Overall how satisfied are you with Metro Weddings as an employee?
“ Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.”
18. Do you feel secured about your job?
“Not really.”
19. Do you think your female co-workers are facing the same problems?