Publication
Family-friendly support programs and work family conflict among Indonesian higher education employees
Publisher:
Emerald
Date:
16-11-2015
DOI:
10.1108/EDI-04-2015-0026
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of family-friendly programs at the workplace in the Indonesian higher education sector. The focus is the impact that these programs have on employees’ work family conflict. – A survey of academic and non-academic staff from 30 higher education institutions across Indonesia participated in the research. A total of 159 completed questionnaires from 109 academic and 50 from non-academic staff are reported and statistically analysed using SPSS. – Work and family experiences in Indonesia do not positively align with the findings reported in most academic literature pertaining to western societies where the use of family-friendly programs (i.e. flexible work options, specialized leave options and dependent care support) leads to a reduction in employees’ work family conflict. In fact, some of the programs were found to have the opposite effect in the Indonesian context. – The design of family-friendly support has to take into account the context in which the policies will operates these policies are not transferable across countries in terms of their effectiveness. – This is one of the first studies that has examined the operation and effectiveness of family-friendly support programs in an Indonesian context.