Flexible Working Arrangement for Working Women : Reducing Work-Life Conflict and Achieving Work-Life Balance

Flexible Working Arrangement. Ya...that's what I always dreamt, to have some flexibility in doing my work when I was still working 5 years ago. I love when my work days were busy, and most of the time my days were busy. And I love that so much but I love my daughter too and I always have to put her on top of my priority besides my work. Sometime in between work, I was called off from work for an emergency call from my daughter's school, some other times I was always late of picking up my daughter from a daycare and cost me for overtime charges and unhappy daughter. Reached home, I still had to do house chores and monitoring my daughter did her homework. At the end of the day, I felt so stressed out and became moody and sometimes tantrum. 

Those scenarios that have brought me an idea to study further the needs of flexibility at work for working women to reduce the stress at work and home, hence give a balance of working and home life. I wish that this study would be able to examine whether the flexible working arrangement (FWA) can help working women to gain work-life balance by reducing work-life conflict as a mediator.
This study will focus on working women who work in any industries that carry positions from the non-skilled to skilled positions. Regardless, she is married, not married or divorcee as women has responsible not only to take care of children but the whole household. Some working women in fact are the main household earner. Therefore, I believed that women at work much more in need of flexibility at work. 

 My hypotheses are Flexible Working Arrangement can help working women to gain Work-Life Balance when Work-Life Conflict is reduced. Therefore, I have to prove that  Flexible Working Arrangement can reduce Work-Life Conflict as with reduced Work-Life Conflict working women will gain Work-Life Balance.

 This blog will preview contents of my actual write up for my thesis. I wish this study will bring and strengthen the evidence that Flexible Working Arrangement at work is a compulsory provision of supports or facilities at work, especially for working women. It is also hoped that this study will encourage the employer to consider to provide the Flexible Working Arrangement at the workplace as part of their welfare employee support.   

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