The determinants influencing employee work-life conflict among secondary school teachers in Machakos District, Kenya
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2013-02-15
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Muindi, Elizabeth Kanini
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Abstract
This study investigated the determinants influencing employee work-life conflict among
secondary school teachers in Machakos District, Kenya. Specifically, it focused on rewards, i.e.
comfort ability with the current pay, agitation for better pay and underperformance as an
outcome of poor pay, and how it influences work life conflict. Further, family demands, such as
family pressure which may be seen through absence from work and underperformance, and its
influence on work life conflict was also studied. Work demands, viewed through the bulk of
work, number of working hours, and work overloads was considered as a variable influencing
employee work life conflict. Work groups, manifested through propagation of grapevine,
suspicions and backbiting, as well as group loyalty was considered and its contribution to
employee work life conflict. Gender biasness, which may refer to the roles linked to maleness or
femaleness, was also subjected to a study, as its influence on employee work life conflict among
Secondary School Teachers in Machakos District, Kenya was sought. Descriptive survey method
was used to conduct the study. The study comprised of 127 teachers selected through stratified
random sampling from the total population of 550 teachers. These were from Central, Kalama
and Muvuti Divisions. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Multiple
regression analysis was applied on the data to establish the relationship between the independent
variables and the dependent variable. The analysis was done using the SPSS (version 15). The
study found out that work reward, family demands, and work demand and gender biasness
influenced work life conflict among secondary teachers in public schools in Machakos District,
Kenya. Therefore the study recommends that school management and the relevant Ministry of
Education Departments should address the issue of rewards and compensation, provide guidance
to the teachers so as to overcome family issues and pressures, reduce the work loads, regulate
work groups and ensure proper implementation of gender policy.
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Department of Business Administration, 68 p. The LB 2840.2 .M82 2011
Keywords
Teachers --Job satisfaction | Teachers --Economic conditions, Teachers --Social conditions, Teachers --Job stress