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Mediating Role of Work Engagement and Emotional Exhaustion in the Effect of Work-Family Conflict on Female Workers’ Turnover Intention

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The current research investigated women employees’ use of work-family conflict and relationship to turnover intention, in which work engagement and emotional exhaustion used as intervening variables for mediating effect in the conceptual model that tested in this study. Data gathered from female officers from rural banks in sub district Badung, Denpasar Bali were used to test the relationships among variables. The findings show that the only one category of employees included in the research, that is women officer who works in rural bank in Mengwi Sub district Bali would consider to exit the organization when the work-family conflict they perceived. Not all of hypotheses were confirmed. Contrary to expectations, work-family conflict founded to be negatively not significant in affecting work engagement among female officers, thus work engagement could not significantly affect turnover intention. The study addresses concerns about the importance of the emotional exhaustion construct in the literature, particularly in its role in the relationship between work -family conflict and turnover intention.
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In-Text Citation: (Purwayoga, Dharmanegara, & Yasa, 2019)
To Cite this Article: Purwayoga, P. V. S., Dharmanegara, I. B. A., & Yasa, P. N. S. (2019). Mediating Role of Work Engagement and Emotional Exhaustion in the Effect of Work-Family Conflict on Female Workers’ Turnover Intention. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(7), 176–190.