Question

How is finding work-family balance viewed? When will finding work-family balance encounter conflict?

Answer 1

Finding balance between work and family

The view of work family balance is considered as a positive way in which people are concerned with maintain positive relationship with family such as both work as well as their personal life is kept at par. Here, relationship has to be kept at equilibrium. The “work-family balance” is a metaphor that work as well as family relationship are many a times at competition with one another, as well as in constant conflict with one another.

There has been a constant conflict such that win and loss form the basis of the conflict that stays between both the components of a person’s life. The balance turns into a conflict when the roles that an individual takes up in his own lifetime are tried to be balanced since there is such less time and resources that a person has that it is not possible to allocate both the components equal amount of time, and that is when the balance turns into a conflict. When this balance turns into conflict, there turns a negative perspective towards the same attitude that used to be positive. There occurs an entry of stress as well as overload in the strive to maintain the balance, , in completing duties at work place and meeting family demands. This results in an increased work family conflict.