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Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23146 Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment Lew, Charlene upetd@up.ac.za Malan, Sharnie UCTD Women graduates Employyment Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The purpose of the research is to investigate the possibility that women are committed to their professional lives (work) and their family/social life (home), and that this commitment to both work and home results in the proposed fifth level of commitment; polarised commitment. People are now working harder and longer than ever before due to globalisation, the 24 hour market place and the compression of time and space by information and communication technology. The boundary between paid work and personal lives is becoming more blurred (Lewis, 2003). Work and family commitments are time greedy in nature and are fundamentally difficult to reconcile. A questionnaire consisting out of a demographics section, Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (Mowday et al’s, 1979) and the Industrial Society’s Work Life Check List (Dex and Bond, 2005) was sent out to participants via a snowball sampling method. In order to support the proposed fifth level of commitment; polarised commitment, a Pearson’s correlation test was performed on the results obtained for the Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (Mowday et al’s, 1979) and the Industrial Society’s Work Life Check List (Dex and Bond, 2005). Even though literature supports polarised commitment, the results were inconclusive. It is therefore recommended to conduct further research utilising different methods to support polarised commitment theory. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:39:04Z 2010-05-27 2013-09-06T14:39:04Z 2010-03-12 2010-05-27 2010-03-12 Dissertation Malan, S 2008, Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23146 > G10/48/mh http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23146 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-164311/ © 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Women graduates Employyment Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| title | Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| title_full | Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| title_fullStr | Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| title_short | Women professionals in South Africa : the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| title_sort | women professionals in south africa the interaction between work life balance and organisational commitment |
| topic | UCTD Women graduates Employyment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23146 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-164311/ |