A Comparative Study of Flourishing and Boundary Management of Psychology among Male and Female IT employees in India

Abstract

Background: Work family researchers have had much success in encouraging both organizations and individuals to recognize the importance of achieving greater balance in our lives. In recent times, research on the interactions between the work and family domains have grown to be a significant area of inquiry in industrial and organizational psychology (Casper et al., 2007; Eby et al., 2005) and any change in the workplace and employees demographics have made exploring the work and family relationship even more relevant. There is a growing amount of research that shows how the blurring of boundaries of work and family life have detrimental effects to the organizations in terms of effectiveness and efficiency and to the individual in terms of stress, quality of life and hampering with well -being.

Objective: The study aims to see the relationship between work family conflict, boundary management and flourishing of the individuals working in the Indian private sector.

Method: The study is based on primary data collected from employees working in private sector.

Findings: Significant negative relationship between work-family conflict and flourishing with no gender difference in terms of work-family conflict, flourishing and boundary management was found in the study.