Management Science Letters (Aug 2013)

A social work study on the effect of quality of life improvement on reduction of work-family and family-work conflicts

  • Masoumeh Emami,
  • Mohammad Reza Abedi,
  • Afsaneh Javadzadeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5267/j.msl.2013.07.009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 8
pp. 2327 – 2330

Abstract

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This paper investigates whether a quality improvement program can reduce work-family and family-work conflicts or not. The proposed study of this paper selects 30 female employees of municipality of Tehran, Iran and divides them into two groups of test and control group. The first group is asked to participate in eight 90-minute sessions of quality improvement program and after the program ends, both groups are requested to fill in Netemeyer’s work-family questionnaire. We then analyze the results using different statistical tests. The results of our survey indicate that quality improvement program statistically improves quality of life among the first group in reducing the work-family as well as family-work conflicts (P<0.01).

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