The relationship between personal factors and work-life conflict among non-executive employees in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)/ Davella Lynora Numin

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of personal factors towards work life conflicts in real life situation. This study will explore career commitment, household responsibilities and financial needs (independent variable) towards work life conflict (dependent variable) among non-executive staff in UNIMAS. The sampling technique that has been used by researcher is convenience sampling. This study is based on a survey of 150 non-executive employees’ population at several departments in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). The findings indicated that the three variables of personal factors career commitment, household responsibilities and financial needs are not significantly related to work-life conflict. This study would benefit an organization because they would know on how to handle and overcome any work life conflict that will be occurring in future. This study shows different result with previous study done by Omar, Ahmad et al. 2016 where in their study, household responsibilities and financial need are positively related with work life conflict.