Female Managers’Work-family Balance Predicament and Their Coping Strategies in Taiwan: A Qualitative Study

• Main Authors: Ho, Man-Yun, 何曼筠
• Other Authors: Chan, Chao-Neng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44216522309696870781

碩士 === 世新大學 === 社會心理學研究所(含碩專班) === 104 === Workplace used to be male-dominated. As times passed, double-income familyand career women has become the mainstream. According to 2014 Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, the national female labor force participation rate is 50.5%, and the married women’s rate is 49.76%. Mainiero's (1994) research had shown that female managers of the biggest 500 corporations had made considerable sacrifices and compromises for promotion and career developments. For example, only 30% remained married, 32% were divorced or remarried, and there are about 12% are still single. How to maintain balance between personal life and work, has been the most annoying problem(Huan-Jung Huang,2008). To explore female managers’ work-family balance predicament and the effectiveness of their coping strategies ̧ this study used a qualitative research method, collecting ten female executives' information through semi-structured interviews. The research result indicated that the environmental factors affecting female managers' work-family balance includes family-of-origin and the family life cycle. They work-family balance predicament could be divided into three categories: time, stain, behavior, each with three different strategies (individual, family, organization, community). With regard to time of conflict, most respondents prefer family strategies. In the face of each predicament, in the case of strain of conflict, respondents were more likely to use personal strategies; concerning behavior of conflict, finally, more respondents use organizational strategies. In addition, corporation's flexible working hours and parental leave policy are helpful for the female managers when confronting emergency situations. Based upon the research results, some suggestions were made for female managers and their families, business organizations policy makers, as well as the relevant government officials for references.