Work-Family Conflicts: Relationship between Work-Life Conflict and Employee Retention – A Comparative Study of Public and Private Sector Employees

Work-family conflict is an inter role conflict that arises due to conflicting roles required by organization and from one’s family. This issue is of great importance as far as employee’s performance and ultimately organizational performance is concerned. Sometimes severe contradictory roles resulted in turnover of most precious asset of the organization that is human resource. In this paper, relationship between work family conflict (WFC), family work conflict (FWC) and turnover intentions of employees in three public and three private sector organizations from services sector of Pakistan is investigated. This study is based on primary data. SPSS is used to investigate the data with the help of descriptive and regression analysis. This study found positive but insignificant relationship between work-family conflict (WFC), family-work conflict (FWC) and turnover intention of employees. Both public and private sector employees are neutral regarding these variables.