Work-Life Conflict and Organizational Commitment: A Study Of Female Faculty In Higher Education

Abstract

This study was conducted to discover the impact of work-life conflict on organizational commitment of female faculty at private universities in Karachi, Pakistan. To test association between the two variables, correlation was used. The results were further corroborated by the use of contingency table. The target population was permanently employed female faculty of private universities. The study was done through interviews and questionnaire survey. The method employed for this purpose wast-test of correlation and chi-square test of association. The study revealed that faculty members at private universities in Karachi had time-based conflict but they did not have strain-based and behaviour-based Conflict. The female faculty were committed to their organizations and the affective commitment showed higher result than continuance and normative commitment. The study reveals that there exists a weak association between two critical variables i.e. work-life conflicts and organizational commitment.