Essays on Family Conflict

Introduction

The balancing of life and work is a problem for several individuals in organizations. Work-life balance as a concept has become popular in research works. Additionally, sociology, human resource management, psychology, as well as organizational studies are concerned with work-life balance. Most research encourages people to find an equilibrium of work and life. This is to avoid conflicts that often arise. The concept has also had various definitions proposed by scholars. Others define it as a sense of harmony in life. It is also described as satisfactory functioning at home and work with minimum conflict of roles. Focusing on ...

Family conflict is a common practice in most homes. The conflicts sometimes lead to inextricable grudges between family members. It is common to find people going through a divorce because of failing to reach an agreement pertaining to the issue that caused a sort of misunderstanding between their matrimonial lives. However, the major cause of the problem is the lack of adequate knowledge on how to handle the various situations caused by rising conflicts within the family. Conflicts are normal and they often arise because people in a family cannot agree on every issue that faces them (Wilmot & Hocker ...

Marital Satisfaction and Work-Family Conflict

The purpose of this paper is to present a proposal for a study on the topic of marital satisfaction and work-family balance. The paper presents the proposal under the subsections objective, subjects for the study, ethical considerations, measurement, data collection methods, and data analysis. 1. Objective The concept of work-family balance refers to the assessment of the whether or not family and work resources are sufficient to satisfy both work and family demands (Voydanoff, 2005). Family and work are central social institutions in an individual’s life and both absorb considerable amounts of an individual’s time. Balancing the ...

Family Conflict: Family conflict can be described as any issue of contention between members of the same family. It could be between siblings, spouses or other extended family members (Malek, 2013, p. 1). Causes of Family Conflict: Conflict in the family does not come from nowhere. There are always indicators and cause factors and the top four causes of conflict in the family including Finance and Jobs, Sibling Rivalry, Child Discipline and In-laws and extended family interference will be examined (Banks, 2015, p. 1). Strategies for Managing Family Conflict: healthier ways of resolving conflicts in the family can be ...

Reference 1

Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). Exploring the Correlates of Perceived Job Dangerousness Among Correctional Staff at a Maximum Security Prison. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 00 (0). DOI: 10.1177/0887403415623618. The signs of mental health disorders do not reveal themselves at work most of the time. Only in rare and isolated instances, will the potency of the problems manifest. In addition, the other correctional officers and staff might not have adequate knowledge to corroborate evidence. Hence, this peer-reviewed paper will provide the parameters for testing. The variables, components, variances, and ...

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction The correctional system in the United States is a complex and overcrowded problem in recent times. The staff in these facilities is often undertrained and overworked. They lack the professional experience and due to heavy attrition rates, are unable to operate any reliable mentoring programs. This gap increases the stress which exceeds the paradigm of work and invades the private lives of the correctional staff. This paper unlocks the psychological problems that fester correctional staff in the United States. Annotated Bibliography 1. Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). ...

Part 1. Psychological Report Based on Case Study

ENTER TITLE/TYPE OF YOUR REPORT [OPTIONAL] DSM-5 Case Number: F 32.1 MDD single episode. Moderate

Age: 33 years old

“Psychologist”: YOUR NAME (STUDENT NUMBER) Referral Ms. Smith is an African American homemaker; she referred to the therapist because of inability to cope with the feelings of hopelessness, weakness, and sadness preventing her from lading a normal life and handling family and home issues. She needed someone to discuss that with, and was also recommended to find professional mental health assistance by her husband.

Presenting Problems

Ms. Smith reported having debilitating depressive symptoms, insomnia, persistent weight loss, frequent irritability, and inability to perform her regular ...

'Work-family balance', or WFB, is the topic that has garnered the interests of academicians, management Tsars, and researchers. With growing competition and stress in the business environment, family life is likely to get affected thereby putting a negative impact on the work productivity. Thus, making a balance between work schedule and family life is of utmost importance if one wishes to have an overall satisfied life. However, identifying related family-specific variables and studying their impact on work-family conflict ( WFC) are some of the pre-requisites to boil down to the balancing part. This paper aims to review the available literature ...

A typical morning in the house of two working parents with young children starts with stress. The person who takes the responsibility of daily chores of everyone getting ready, packing food for the day, breakfast and reaching their destination is under stress. In any culture across the world mothers feel obligated to complete everything to perfection at the home front. In the case of working mothers, the additional demands of job responsibilities compound the day. It has been proven that working mothers are under stress due to these dual roles of homemaker and office employee (J.Williams, 1999). Such stresses ...

Introduction

This essay explores the issue of gender discrimination at workplace and the impact it can have on employee performance. Gender issues have been a part of human civilization since time immemorial but were only brought to attention around the 1980s. Historically, gender discrimination has been thought to be most obvious in the everyday workplaces and continues to be so. Many factors such as the gender based stereotypes as well as the organizational structures have been considered as the factors behind such discrimination. It is obvious that the working environments differ greatly for men and women in the developing as well ...

Abstract

The issue of balancing family and career is controversial especially based on the gender issues that tend to emerge from such debates. The following analysis presents personal experiences and worldwide view on the issue and the respective implications. It is evident that gender equality is not the solution on work-family conflicts as countries with greater gender equality level also report such cases in exception of Sweden where women are institutionally supported whether they are married or not. The fact that over 60% of the households with the school aged children are mainly dual-earning families depicts the essence of developing ...

Role Strain as a Common Problem for Working Mothers in Singapore and the Impact Singapore’s Government Paid Pro-Family Leave Schemes has on the Sociological Phenomenon of Role Strain (Student’s Full Name) Role Strain as a Common Problem for Working Mothers in Singapore and the Impact Singapore’s Government Paid Pro-Family Leave Schemes has on the Sociological Phenomenon of Role Strain Dictionary.com , which is based on the Random House Dictionary describes role strain as “the stress or strain” experienced by a person when “incompatible behavior, expectations, or obligations are associated with a single role” (n.d., par. 1). According to ...

Introduction

Conflicts are inevitable in the world we are living in today. People exhibit different shared values and beliefs which more often than not lead to misunderstandings and end up creating tension when communicating. The way an individual responds to a conflict always plays a role in limiting or enabling their success in life (dealing with people). With the right tools to comprehend a conflict, one can understand their conflict patterns and thus have the control to make more valuable choices when they are faced with conflict. The way a person manages conflict at a personal level always reflects some extent their characteristics. Hence, in ...

Towards the end of the 19th century, the American childcare started to have formal and informal provisions for childcare. The provisions had close associations with the immigrants, the poor and the minorities who were stigmatized. This led to a weak foundation for the development of social services in the 20th century. Women reforms were at its peak in the progressive era and childcare became something that could bring modernizations and reforms. A group of women formed a nationwide organization that has its attention on pushing for childcare and rights of women. Reformers formulated solutions for poor mothers who worked outside their ...

Business Conflict

Business Conflict Conflicts in business can stem from a trivial offence that often starts in a small way. Corporations tend to maintain conflicts in a workgroup. The management has to educate the employees on the associated risks of harassment and subtle attacks in conflicts. Employees need to consider on the expensive nature of resolving conflicts by defending a lawsuit and adopt quick resolution to address the conflict. In the article “Family Business Identity Conflict “Shepherd & Haynie (2009), state that a family business operates with the intention to shape the vision of the business as held by the dominant members of the family. ...

Movie Analysis

Brave is an animated film based in fictional characters. The film is based in an old setting revolving around Princess Merida. The Princess is born of King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Merida realize that she was to be married of to a man she had not chosen. This was to enable her assume the role of her father as the king after he got injured protecting them from a bear attack. However, Merida flees her home after an argument with her mother. While in the forest she encounters a witch who vows to help her enable her mother to change her mind ...

Changing Context of Work

1: Herod, A. and Aguiar, L. 2006. Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neo-liberalism. Antipode, OX4 (2DQ), pp. 425 - 433. In the political-economic realm, the past two decades or so have been dominated by two words: neo-liberalism and globalization. According to this article, janitors and cleaners are among the occupations that endure the most probabilities of enduring injuries. The article has further analyzed research done in the US and Australia which indicates that this category of workers are ranked as the fifth going by the possibilities of enduring injuries. Despite to this, they are also victims of ...

Introduction

Employee engagement can be defined in various ways. However, it can be generally referred to as the ability and willingness of employees to help the organization in which they are employed achieve its objectives. This is achieved by the employees providing their services in a discretional way and in sustainable circumstances. Employee engagement entails two main aspects; psychological and HR practice. The psychological aspect involves the kind of job one is doing, the resources at the employee’s disposal and the experience one goes through during the engagement. Furthermore, the ability of the organization to empower its employees and its ...

Introduction

Many a times parents do not realize that their attitudes towards their children is affecting them seriously, which results in impulsive and irrational behavior leading to dangerous consequences. The difference in adolescent behavior can be observed but without the knowledge of the reasons as to why such behaviors are escalating, both parents and teachers are unable to solve them. Hence it is important to study the reasons of such behaviors so that we understand how these individual differences affect children and be able to manage such erupting behavior problems. Moreover, it is important to identify children and parents who ...

The Jerry Springer Show is arguably one of the most favorable television programs in the United States of America. The serial television program runs family and interpersonal relationship feuds. The complainant contacts the television show host, Jerry Springer, who then arranges to get both the defendant and the plaintiff to the live audience show. The two parties proceed to table their dispute and each of them gives his or her side of the story. The scenes in most cases get as murky as the two engaging in physical fights that would consequently continue with neither the host nor the ...

Life In Organizations

The results of the assessment allow to understand one’s preferences for a particular working environment. Therefore, they provide an opportunity to predict how well an organization and an individual fit together, thus making it easier to foresee whether one’s life in this organization is going to be successful and fulfilling.

Assessment test III-A-1 helps to define person’s preferred organizational structure. The result obtained in the test indicates candidate’s preference for an organic organization, where the structure is flat and less formalized, therefore decisions are usually made collectively and the work is based on projects, which are ...

INTRODUCTION

Society is typically divided into units of families; this social institution is meant to allow parents to raise children in the way they wish, imposing values and discipline upon the children and prepare them for the outside world. As the decades go by and the nature of society changes, families must change as well. There are many sociological theories by which to examine the role of families in society, and the roles of individuals within that family, but some lenses fit better than others. In this essay, we will look at the social institution of family through a functionalist, conflict, ...