WORK - LIFE STRESS AND CONFLICTS IN WORKING COUPLES

ABSTRACT

Frequent transitions have become a common feature of contemporary careers. Some are traditional career steps, such as a move up the corporate ladder or a move out to another company. Others are more radical shifts that reorient or reinvent our career paths entirely. We might be thinking about changing our line of work, moving to a new country, or starting our own business. While exciting, these transitions can be stressful. And when working couples are juggling two careers with two sets of change, the stress becomes even more acute.In contemporary workplaces there exist many employed parents who are endeavoring to balance participation between the two central life domains i.e. work and family. For parents living in dual-earner families, simultaneously occupying work and family roles can be difficult and has been associated with outcomes such as physical and psychological stress and organizational performance deficits. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the work and family roles accumulation experiences of working couple relationships, and to explore the strategies and processes to be adopted by working couples and their organizations to manage work life balance.

 

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