An Impact of Work Family Conflict on Organizational Commitment : A Study of Staff Members at People’S Bank in Trincomalee District

As organizations attempt to help employees to manage the balance between work and family demands, there is a growing body of research on the topic of work-family conflict. The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between work family conflict and organizational commitment among the banking staffs in Trincomalee district. In this research work family conflict variables such as work interferes family conflict and family interferes work conflict considered as independent variables and organizational commitment is considered as dependent variable. For the purpose of present study 56 sample responses were collected randomly from 114 members working in the managerial levels, management trainees and staff assistants positions at people’s bank in Trincomalee District. Correlation analysis revealed that there is a significant negative correlation between WFC and organizational commitment. Regression analysis suggested that there is a significant negative effect of work-family conflict on organizational commitment as hypothesized. Findings further detected that WIF and FIW have negative significant effect on Affective Commitment, and also there is a significant negative relationship between FIW and Affective commitment. More indicates that WIF and FIW have negative significant effect on Continuance Commitment, and there is a significant negative relationship was observed among them. These results have implications for people’s bank administration to design workloads that reduce WFC in employees and increase organizational commitment