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UNDERSTANDING WORK-LIFE

CONFLICT AND JOB STRESS.

Disediakan oleh:
Famizah Asyikin Binti Azman

Employees are important assets to the organization because without
them the organization will not be able to achieve its objectives. Therefore,
employee wellbeing should be a major concern to the organization. As a UNDERSTANDING WORK-LIFE
human, they will get impact either emotionally and potentially physically
when there is transformation in work activity. Hence, most of the CONFLICT AND JOB STRESS.
employees will experience high pressure working environment and it will Disediakan oleh:
affect their work outcome or service and will lead to job stress. Azie Amira Binti Azmi

Work-life conflict can be defined as a type of inter-role conflict that arise What is failure? In essence, failure is an excruciatingly
when the role of pressure from one domain are incompatible with traumatic, causing internal instability and disorder, as well
pressure from the other domain. In addition, work-life conflicts arise when as extremely painful feelings of guilt, sorrow, and empathy.
there is competition between personal and work demands. On the other Most of us will think that failure is the end of journey for
hand, the work-life conflict can be bidirectional whereby it can happen every effort which has been given in achieving for the
both ways; work-to-life conflict or life-to-work conflict. Work-to-life conflict successful goal. It is commonly being described in a
is the conflict that arise from work related issues that intervene with the negative way and the impact that it potentially lead to the
roles at home. It is also associated with several factors such as time unpleasant feeling in life.
commitment to work, hours spent on paid work, work overload and other
factors which are related to work. Meanwhile, life-to-work conflict is a However, most of the successful person in this world, they
conflict that arise at home which will have an impact on work. The other have experienced with a lot of tribulations or bittersweet
factors will lead to outcomes such as lower quality of work life, depression, moments before they are able to embrace the fruitful
job and life dissatisfaction, increased job burnout, decreased physical and outcome. Therefore, people should change their perspec-
psychological wellness, absenteeism, tardiness and the employee fell tives on how they are portraying about failure and make it
dissatisfaction with their work-life balance and organization since the into a more positive perspectives. There are a few reasons
number hours of work is increasing. that people must know when they are making failure as
their step stone to keep moving forward. In which, they
There are three forms of work-life conflict which involve time based, strain could gain the experience in life because with failure they
based and behavioural based. Time-based conflict happens when an manage to improve their future self for the better after the
individual faces conflict with the time allocated to complete the task or a series of trials in the past.
lot of time spent in activities that hinder doing other activities. An example
are people who have excessive work time and packed schedule conflict. Besides, failure will also contribute
Stain-based conflict is individuals face pressure when there is anxiety with a lot of knowledge to an
produced by one role, even when one is physically attempting to meet the individual. The knowledge that they
demands of another role. Behaviour-based conflict is people act differently
when at work and home. gain through the failure previously is
definitely can assist them to reduce
However, most of the employees have to face the work-life conflict the sense of pain for the present
because they have the awareness to work in order to earn money to meet
the needs of family life. In addition, modern life demands high cost of journey.
living, this situation urges individual to go for work. The employees and
organization should play an important role in order to control the work-life Moreover, failure has the possibility to develop the process
conflict. This conflict basically is unseen and it is dangerous because it will of growth in life. As failure will create the characters that
make the employees suddenly feel burnout. World Health Organization make us become mature and bold than what we are in the
(WHO) asserts that job stress will replace cardiovascular disease as the key recent chapters of life.
factor whether employees can perform their work or not. Job stress could
be considered as a common illness faced by today’s employees due to Ultimately, we must know without failure we are nowhere
numerous disturbances and pressure at workplace. More hours are spent and with failure someone will gain the strength until they
at work mean less time spent at home, causing a condition that are able to become stronger and successful than before. It is
researchers refer to as work-life conflict. Hence, it will lead to mental illness how the successful people are being developed and
and it will become the second largest health problem after heart disease. bloomed time by time. Eventually, it begins with failure. As
It also will affect the productivity and work quality of employees. Therefore, said by Winston Churchill, “Success consists of going from
the work-life balance and social support should be considered to reduce failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”.
the level of work-life conflict.

15 | Julai 2021