Proceedings of 8th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference
9 - 10 February 2015, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-71-9
Work-Family Conflict Experience in Non-Western Culture
Context: An Indonesian Evidence
Nurhidayati1
The increasing number of women in paid employment has changed the structure
of workforce and the family, and impacted massive research on work-family
conflict conducted in Western cultures. Because the work and family are two
domains culture sensitive, thus literature on work and family studies argues
influenced with Western values, and it careful applied to different culture context
such in non-Western culture. This study, based on mixed method study explores
the experience of work-family conflict among married women academics in Java
Indonesia. The quantitative and qualitative approaches use in this study found
iceberg phenomenon of work-family conflict due to cultural factors of Java,
Indonesia. Thus, on the surface, very little work-family conflict may be apparent
experienced by married women academics, while in reality they are burdened with
work-family conflict. This paper will summary these findings and suggests a
possible reason for the apparent contradiction.
Key word: work-family conflict, married women, culture, Java, Indonesia
Field of Research: Human Resource Management
1
Nurhidayati, School of Management, Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Kent Street,
Bentley, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia, Fax: +61 8 9266 7694, Email:
nurhidayati@postgrad.curtin.edu.au
The author would like to thank you to the Government of Indonesia for providing DIKTI
scholarship.