Abstract:
The work family literature demonstrates the great vitality and diversity of scholarship and it
is an omnipresent factor in the study of contemporary organizations and society. This study
was designed to diagnose the pervading nature of work family conflict in Sri Lanka. A total of
fifteen respondents were purposively selected from a high status occupations viz., banking
organisations and the experience survey was employed. The majority of the employees
interviewed are in accord with existence of time based and strain based work family conflict
in Sri Lanka. Nonetheless, as the third form of work family conflict-behaviour based work
family conflict- in the vantage point of the majority of the employees opined that there was a
flimsy of evidence to its existence. Most importantly, this study identified a new form of
psychological based work family conflict and thus these novel insights unequivocally
contribute to revamp the work family conflict literature. This study becomes a springboard
for future research studies.
