Effect of work-life balance on work-Performance among Government workers in Ghana

에블린 서울대학교 대학원 2023 국내석사

The importance of work-life balance has grown among both employers and employees in the majority of global enterprises. The goal of this study was to determine the impact of three work-life balance factors—personal life, working hours, and workplace stress—on work performance in Ghanaian government agencies. Five departments were selected for the study namely; Local Government & Civil Service, Education Service, Information Service, Health Service and Security Service. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaire. Using Cochran's sample size formula for sample determination, a sample size of 300 employees was taken from the population. The analysis of multiple regressions was used to evaluate the hypothesis. Statistical Package for Social Science was used for computations (SPSS). Results showed that employees' personal lives, working hours, and job stress had a significant impact on workers' performance in the chosen departments. It was determined that factors relating to work-life balance influence employee performance in Ghana's government organizations. In order to address work-life issues, it was advised that government institutions create and maintain a work and family culture that includes activities from one's personal life. They should also incorporate work hours options and stress management programs as workplace support measures that include family-friendly policies. 워라밸은 전 세계 대부분의 조직에서 고용주와 고용주의 중요한 관심 분야가 되었다. 본 연구에서는 개인생활, 근로시간, 직무스트레스 등 워라밸의 세 가지 변수가 가나의 정부부처 업무성과에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 하였다. 연구대상으로는 지방정부 및 공무원, 교육서비스, 정보서비스, 보건서비스, 치안서비스 등 5개 부서가 선정되었다. 차 자료는 구조화된 질문지를 이용하여 수집되었다. 작업자 300명의 표본 크기는 Cochran의 표본 크기 공식을 사용한 모집단 크기로부터 추출되었다. 가설은 다중 회귀 분석을 사용하여 검정되었다. 계산은 SPSS(Statistical Package for Social Science)를 통해 수행되었다. 조사결과 선정부서에서는 근로자 개인생활, 근로시간, 직무스트레스가 근로자 성과에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 결국 워라밸 변수는 가나의 정부기관에서 일하는 사람들의 성과와 관련이 있으며 이에 영향을 미친다. 따라서 정부기관은 개인 활동을 아우르는 직장가정문화를 정착·유지하고, 일과 삶의 균형 문제 해결을 위해 가족친화적 정책이 포함된 직장지원 방안으로 근로시간선택권과 스트레스 관리 프로그램도 시행해야만 한다.

Research on the Impact of Work-Family Conflict on Employee Engagement

YIN XIANGZONG 가천대학교 일반대학원 2020 국내석사

There is fierce competition in work, excessive burden in family environment and role conflict, which leads to work-family conflict. The harm of work-family conflict to employees is a two-way relationship between work and family. Based on the current situation of research combining the theory of resource conservation, etc to grassroots employees as the research main body, exploring work family conflict on the employee's engagement will produce what kind of influence, the empirical analysis work family conflict produces loss and damage to enterprises and individuals, and based on this to seek to reduce staff work family conflict, increase employee engagement. In this study, a combination of literature research, online face-to-face interview, questionnaire survey and empirical research was adopted. Samples were ii selected from wind field workers in multiple regions for understanding and data acquisition analysis. SPSS25.0 and other statistical analysis software were used to interpret and analyze the survey data, so as to achieve a better research effect on the interaction among work-family conflict, emotional exhaustion and employee engagement. The results of the empirical study confirm that the conflict between work and family can positively predict the emotional exhaustion to some extent. Work-family conflict has a negative impact on employee engagement. Emotional exhaustion also has a negative impact on employee engagement. Emotional exhaustion showed a completely mediating effect between work-family conflict and employee engagement. Therefore, it is necessary to start with employees themselves to reduce the impact of family and work conflicts and improve their emotional control, so as to improve efficiency and achieve corporate goals smoothly and improve market competitiveness. This paper proposes targeted Suggestions and countermeasures to alleviate the conflicts between work and family, so as to reduce or even avoid the conflicts between work and family, so as to further improve the degree of work engagement of employees and achieve a win-win situation for both individuals and enterprises. We canstartfromtheaspectsofenterpriseculture,managementconcept,supportdegreeof the enterprise, psychological mood of employees' family members, salary level and workingenvironment.

A study of the current situation of teacher’s work-life balance management under the educational reform in China

Lin Zeng 영남대학교 대학원 2012 국내석사

This research studies antecedents of work-life balance and how perceived organizational support as a moderating variable influences work-life balance. In addition, the current situation of primary and secondary school teachers’ work-life balance management was considered. Research data were collected via questionnaires from Chinese teachers. We sent 368 questionnaires to teachers privately available who work in primary and secondary school, and asked them to provide necessary information. 297 questionnaires are usable and return rate is 81.25%. After recording and transforming survey data, the present study did statistical analysis which including factor analysis, correlation analysis, reliability statistics, and hierarchical regression. Findings of the study can be summarized as follow: 1. Working hours and work stress are the main task characteristics which will influence work-life balance. 2. The frequency of marital conflict will affect work-life balance. 3. Leisure time can weaken the conflict of work and family. 4. Perceived organizational support can moderate the balance of work and life to some extent. The main contribution of this research is to investigate the antecedents of work-life balance and the moderating effect of perceived organizational support. These research findings shall be quite useful in assisting with relevant authorities when setting up educational reform policies to help teachers get balance of work and life and improve the quality of work and life.

Deconstructing work meaningfulness : CMWS validation and profiles of work meaningfulness

박용욱 Graduate School, Yonsei University 2021 국내박사

An Explorative Analysis on the Work-life Balance of Women : A Case Study on Five-Star Hotels in Kerala, India

Kishor Sulathakumari Chandran 우송대학교 일반대학원 2021 국내박사

This research attempts to explore the work-life balance of the female employees in Kerala’s five-star hotels in India by analysing the relationships between various dimension of work-life demands, work-life conflicts, and work-life balance.

Ergonomics Studies on Working Posture and Movement for Reducing Risk of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders

정해석 서울대학교 대학원 2022 국내박사

Working in stressful postures and movements increases the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). The physical stress on a worker’s musculoskeletal system depends on the type of work task. In the case of sedentary work, stressful sitting postures for prolonged durations could increase the load on soft connective tissues such as muscles and ligaments, resulting in the incidence of WMSDs. Therefore, to reduce the WMSDs, it is necessary to monitor a worker’s sitting posture and additionally provide ergonomic interventions. When the worker performs a task that involves dynamic movements, such as manual lifting, the worker’s own body mass affects the physical stress on the musculoskeletal system. In the global prevalence of obesity in the workforce, an increase in the body weight of the workers could adversely affect the musculoskeletal system during the manual lifting task. Therefore, obesity could be associated with the development of WMSDs, and the impacts of obesity on workers’ movement during manual lifting need to be examined. Despite previous research efforts to prevent WMSDs, there still exist research gaps concerning ergonomics design of work systems. For sedentary workers, a promising solution to reduce the occurrence of WMSDs is the development of a system capable of monitoring and classifying a seated worker's posture in real-time, which could be utilized to provide feedback to the worker to maintain a posture with a low-risk of WMSDs. However, the previous studies in relation to such a posture monitoring system lacked a review of the ergonomics literature to define posture categories for classification, and had some limitations in widespread use and user acceptance. In addition, only a few studies related to obesity impacts on manual lifting focused on severely obese population with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher, and, analyzed lifting motions in terms of multi-joint movement organization or at the level of movement technique. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to: 1) develop a sensor-embedded posture classification system that is capable of classifying an instantaneous sitting posture as one of the posture categories discussed in the ergonomics literature while not suffering from the limitations of the previous system, and, 2) identify the impacts of severe obesity on joint kinematics and movement technique during manual lifting under various task conditions. To accomplish the research objectives, two major studies were conducted. In the study on the posture classification system, a novel smart chair system was developed to monitor and classify a worker’s sitting postures in real-time. The smart chair system was a mixed sensor system utilizing six pressure sensors and six infrared reflective distance sensors in combination. For a total of thirty-six participants, data collection was conducted on posture categories determined based on an analysis of the ergonomics literature on sitting postures and sitting-related musculoskeletal problems. The mixed sensor system utilized a kNN algorithm for posture classification, and, was evaluated in posture classification performance in comparison with two benchmark systems that utilized only a single type of sensors. The mixed sensor system yielded significantly superior classification performance than the two benchmark systems. In the study on the manual lifting task, optical motion capture was conducted to examine differences in joint kinematics and movement technique between severely obese and non-obese groups. A total of thirty-five subjects without a history of WMSDs participated in the experiment. The severely obese and non-obese groups show significant differences in most joint kinematics of the ankle, knee, hip, spine, shoulder, and elbow. There were also significant differences between the groups in the movement technique index, which represents a motion in terms of the relative contribution of an individual joint degree of freedom to the box trajectory in a manual lifting task. Overall, the severely obese group adopted the back lifting technique (stoop) rather than the leg lifting technique (squat), and showed less joint range of excursions and slow movements compared to the non-obese group. The findings mentioned above could be utilized to reduce the risk of WMSDs among workers performing various types of tasks, and, thus, improve work productivity and personal health. The mixed sensor system developed in this study was free from the limitations of the previous posture monitoring systems, and, is low-cost utilizing only a small number of sensors; yet, it accomplishes accurate classification of postures relevant to the ergonomic analyses of seated work tasks. The mixed sensor system could be utilized for various applications including the development of a real-time posture feedback system for preventing sitting-related musculoskeletal disorders. The findings provided in the manual lifting study would be useful in understanding the potential risk of WMSDs for severely obese workers. Differences in joint kinematics and movement techniques between severely obese and non-obese groups provide practical implications concerning the ergonomic design of work tasks and workspace layout. 육체적 부하가 큰 자세 및 동작으로 작업을 수행하는 것은 작업자의 근골격계 질환의 위험성을 증가시킨다. 작업자의 근골격계에 가해지는 육체적 부하의 양상은 수행하는 작업의 종류에 따라 달라진다. 장시간 앉은 자세로 작업을 수행하는 경우, 작업자의 근육, 인대와 같은 연조직에 과도한 부하가 발생하여 목, 허리 등 다양한 신체 부위에서 근골격계 질환의 위험성이 증가할 수 있다. 따라서, 착좌 시 발생할 수 있는 근골격계 질환의 위험성을 저감하기 위해서는 작업자의 착좌 자세를 실시간으로 모니터링하고, 이에 대한 피드백을 제공하는 것이 필요하다. 들기 작업과 같은 동적인 움직임이 포함된 작업을 수행하는 경우, 작업자의 체중이 신체적 부하에 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 전세계적인 비만의 유행으로 인해 많은 작업자들이 체중 증가를 겪고 있고, 들기 작업과 같은 동적인 작업에서 비만은 신체적 부하에 악영향을 미칠 수 있다. 따라서, 비만과 작업 관련 근골격계 질환의 위험성은 잠재적인 연관성을 가지고 있고, 비만이 들기 작업에 미치는 생체역학적 영향을 논의할 필요성이 있다. 작업장에서의 근골격계 질환의 위험성을 저감하기 위해 다양한 연구들이 수행되어 왔지만, 작업 시스템의 인간공학적 설계 측면에서 추가적인 연구가 필요하다. 장시간 의자에 앉아 정적인 작업을 수행하는 작업자의 근골격계 질환을 저감하기 위한 유망한 방법 중 하나로, 작업자의 자세를 실시간으로 모니터링하고 분류하는 시스템을 개발하는 것이 제안되고 있다. 이러한 시스템은 작업자가 근골격계 질환의 위험성이 낮은 자세를 작업 시간 동안 유지하도록 돕는 데 활용될 수 있을 것이다. 기존의 대부분의 자세 모니터링 시스템에서는 분류할 자세를 정의하는 과정에서 인간공학적 문헌이 거의 고려되지 않았고, 사용자가 실제로 활용하기에는 여러 한계점들이 존재하였다. 들기 작업의 경우, 체질량 지수(BMI) 40 이상의 초고도 비만 작업자의 동작 패턴을 논의한 연구는 거의 찾아볼 수 없었다. 또한, 다양한 들기 작업 조건 하에서 전신 관절들의 움직임을 생체역학적 측면에서 분석한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서의 연구 목적은 1) 다양한 센서 조합을 활용한 실시간 착좌 자세를 분류하는 시스템을 개발하고, 2) 들기 작업 시 초고도 비만이 개별 관절의 움직임과 들기 동작 패턴에 미치는 영향을 이해하여, 다양한 종류의 작업에서 발생할 수 있는 근골격계 질환의 위험성을 저감하는 것이다. 연구 목적을 달성하기 위해 다음의 두 가지 연구를 수행하였다. 첫번째 연구에서는 실시간으로 착좌 자세를 분류하는 스마트 의자 시스템을 개발하였다. 스마트 의자 시스템은 각각 여섯 개의 거리 센서와 압력 센서를 조합하여 구성되었다. 착좌 관련한 근골격계 질환에 대해 문헌 조사를 수행하였고, 이를 바탕으로 결정된 자세들에 대해 서른 여섯 명의 데이터를 수집하였다. 스마트 의자 시스템에서 자세를 분류하기 위해 kNN 알고리즘을 활용하였고, 성능을 검증하기 위해 단일 종류의 센서로 구성된 기준 모델들과 비교를 수행하였다. 분류 성능을 비교한 결과, 센서를 조합한 스마트 의자 시스템이 가장 우수한 결과를 보였다. 두번째 연구에서는 들기 작업을 수행할 때 초고도 비만이 개별 관절의 움직임과 동작 패턴에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 모션 캡쳐 실험을 수행하였다. 들기 실험에는 근골격계 질환 이력이 없는 서른 다섯 명이 참여하였다. 수집된 데이터를 바탕으로 주요 관절(발목, 무릎, 엉덩이, 허리, 어깨, 팔꿈치) 별 운동역학적 변수들과, 들기 동작의 패턴을 표현하는 동작 지수들을 계산하였다. 들기 작업 조건과 비만 수준에 따라, 대부분의 변수에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다. 전체적으로 비만인은 정상체중인에 비해 다리 보다 허리를 사용하여 들기 작업을 수행하였고, 동작 수행 시 상대적으로 적은 관절 각도 변화와 느린 움직임을 보였다. 들기 작업에서 박스의 이동에 개별 관절이 기여하는 비율도 정상체중인과 비만인은 다른 패턴을 보였다. 본 연구의 결과를 활용하여 다양한 종류의 신체적 부하에 노출된 작업자들의 근골격계 질환의 위험성을 저감할 수 있고, 궁극적으로 업무의 생산성과 개인의 건강을 제고할 수 있을 것이다. 첫번째 연구에서 개발된 스마트 의자 시스템은 기존 자세 분류 시스템의 단점들을 완화하였다. 개발된 시스템은 저렴한 소수의 센서만을 활용하여 근골격계 측면에서 중요한 자세들을 높은 정확도로 분류하였다. 이러한 자세 분류 시스템은 작업자에게 실시간으로 자세 피드백을 제공하여, 근골격계 질환의 위험성이 낮은 자세를 유지하는 데 활용될 수 있을 것이다. 두번째 연구의 결과는 동적인 작업 시 초고도 비만으로 인한 잠재적인 근골격계 질환의 위험성을 이해하는 데 활용될 수 있다. 초고도 비만인과 정상체중인 간 관절의 움직임과 동작의 차이를 이해하여, 비만을 고려한 인간공학적 작업장 설계와 동작 가이드라인을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

Work-related vicarious traumatisation of professionals in the justice system

Geary, Jennifer University of South Australia (Australia) 2008 해외공개박사

This hermeneutic phenomenological study focuses on work-related vicarious traumatisation based on experiences of professionals in the justice system. The experiences, knowledge and understanding of eighteen participants and me are at centre stage as an illustration of how professionals comprehend and reflect on their experiences of work-related vicarious traumatisation and how the causes and symptoms of trauma are interpreted. This thesis enhances understandings about the psychological, medical, social and cultural circumstances that contribute to work-related vicarious trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and burnout. Participants experienced a fear of the consequences of admitting that they are experiencing trauma because of being a professional working in the justice system. They felt at risk and perceived themselves as being ineffective because of a lack of education about work-related vicarious traumatisation and the law. They felt emotionally and professionally isolated. Participants were called upon to develop their internal and external resources, to exercise self care, to limit or minimise their physiological and emotional trauma and stress they experience as a consequence of their work. Experiencing vicarious traumatisation as a consequence created many needs. Participants needed support from employers, security at the workplace and more legal knowledge. Their experiences call upon a requirement for volunteers and emergency response teams; access to counselling and employee assistance programs, education and social support. This thesis makes a contribution to the field by highlighting the need for professionals in the justice system to view work-related vicarious traumatisation as being connected with a system within which workers find themselves rather than solely a biomedical or individual problem. The nature of the system creates the need for any professional in the justice system to learn how to work within a context of vicarious traumatisation and the system is called upon to learn how to support individuals who will be exposed to this occupational work hazard.

Ergonomic posture analysis of automobile assembly jobs based on multi-year observation data

권상현 Seoul National University 2016 국내박사

Posture is represented as a composite of the positions of all human joints, and human naturally takes posture at any moment whether it is good or bad. Good posture is a necessary condition for healthy life. Now, the importance of good posture becomes a universal truth. On the contrary to this, bad postures induce various illnesses or disorders, in particular, musculoskeletal disorders. Musculoskeletal disorders bring pains or agonies in musculoskeletal systems, and can be exacerbated to some kinds of cumulative disorders. In the industrialization era, repetitive works become main jobs for workers, so that the workers have to specialize in the repetitive works. Consequently, the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders, which are work-related disorders, has been growing higher. Plenty of researches have been conducted to prevent or deal with the work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The researchers have focused on grasping risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders so far. The results clearly reveal that awkward posture, excessive force, and repetition during work are the most influential factors. Among these factors, the working posture is the one mostly referred to. Nonetheless, dissimilar to the work-related musculoskeletal disorders, contributing factors for working posture have not been investigated enough. Previously, it was mainly concerned how a working posture varies when a worker takes a specific posture, for example reaching, in a particular context. There is no single study on the understanding the contributing factors for the working posture among various factors in a work site. This dissertation starts with this motivation, and aims to resolve this research question: which factors are the contributing factors for working postures, and how much are they influential? It is practically impossible to consider every variable to resolve this question, so the study should be preceded by selecting a candidate set of expected contributing factors. To get the candidate set, we primarily referred to literature on this issue. Unfortunately, there was little researches on this subject, so we additionally paid attention to the studies on the risk factors for the work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The first part of this dissertation is an overview study of existing systematic reviews. Through the overview study, risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders were collected, and the terminologies were standardized. Moreover, associations between the risk factors and work-related musculoskeletal disorders were analyzed for each body part. Based on the result of the analysis, the candidate set was drawn. The candidate set was composed of individual and physical exposure factors. For the drawn candidate set, the factors were measured through field researches. A series of field research had been conducted in an automobile assembly plant for seven years. The gathered data contained the two factors mentioned above and the working posture. Through statistical analyses of the data, the contributing factors were finally determined. Then, their influence was analyzed as well. Existing ergonomic assessment methods normally deliver a risk level and an action level. However, the results are not differential, and the basis is not very concrete. Moreover, these existing methods do not consider from job satisfaction and job stress viewpoints. To this end, at first, comparisons among the existing methods were carried out. Then, job satisfaction was estimated using the assessment methods. Finally, quantitative models for job satisfaction and job stress were suggested using statistical analysis and machine learning techniques. While pooling the data from the work site, we attempted to find ergonomic problems in the work site and to resolve the problems. It is so much important to clear up ergonomic problems from ergonomic and working postural perspectives. Hence, in this dissertation, the ergonomic problems in an automobile assembly plant were figured out. Then, appropriate interventions were suggested. After that, through a follow-up study, the effectiveness of the implemented interventions was analyzed by comparing before and after the interventions regarding the working postures and the results of ergonomic assessment methods. Lastly, to manage musculoskeletal disorders in the work site effectively, it is required to manage numerous information efficiently. The efficiency of information management is determined by ease of data input and retrieval. From this perspective, a database system is the most proper system for monitoring the information on musculoskeletal disorders. Thus, we constructed a database system appropriate to the work site. The database system was built on a web-based platform to increase the accessibility. Additionally, software for postural analysis was developed for more reliable and accurate analysis of the working posture. The two systems suggested in this study are expected to help both academic researchers and practitioner in the real field.

Transformational leadership, work engagement, and mediators : meta-analytic structural equation modeling

유호성 Graduate School, Korea University 2022 국내석사

This study analyzes the structural relationship between transformational leadership, work engagement, and mediators. Various mediators are derived from previous studies to derive the structure of the relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement. A meta-analytic structural equation model analyzes the structural relationship between the variables. The selection of the paper was aimed at journals published since 2000, and 104 articles that reported two or more correlations in the relationship between transformational leadership, work engagement, and mediators were selected. The mediators presented in the chosen research are needed satisfaction, self-efficacy, and meaning in work. A meta-analytic structural equation modeling was conducted using the correlation coefficients between classified transformational leadership, mediators, and work engagement. As a result, the average direct effect size between work engagement and antecedent variables was in the order of transformational leadership (.496), need satisfaction (.426), meaning in work (.310), and self-efficacy (.204). Among the various direct effects, including mediators, transformational leadership showed the highest effect, indicating the highest positive impact on work engagement. In addition, A structural relationship between work engagement and antecedent factors was established, and a structural equation model was constructed. The average indirect effect size between work engagement and antecedent variables was in the order of transformational leadership-need satisfaction (.496), transformational leadership-meaning in work (.426). Self-efficacy had no indirect effect between transformational leadership and work engagement. The MASEM results differed from the meta-analysis results, suggesting that the effect size of the two variables tends to be overestimated, and the relational role affecting the dependent variable can be distorted. The MASEM shows the factors' total, direct, and indirect effects. In future studies, it is necessary to devise a plan to increase the work engagement of organizational members by prescribing various leadership techniques and programs according to regional characteristics.

Work-Family Conflict and Health among Married Workers in South Korea: A Gender Analysis : 한국 기혼 노동자의 일-가족갈등과 건강: 젠더 차이를 중심으로

Cha, Sujin 고려대학교 대학원 2015 국내석사

The patriarchal culture and institutions have been slow in adjusting to the labor market change, which makes the work-family conflict an important social issue in South Korea. South Korea’s one of the lowest female labor market participation rate among OECD countries is one of the evidences of the high work-family conflict. According to the role strain theory, work family conflict occurs when the role in the workplace and the role in the family collides each other. There have been many efforts to test this theory of the work-family conflict in various societies. Also, only few of previous studies on the work-family conflict focused on the health outcomes. The goal of this study is to identify (1) the physical and mental health consequences of the work-family conflict and (2) its gender difference among South Koreans. Using the data from the 2012 Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), 498 married workers were included as a study population. Work-family conflict was measured with 2 variables in 2 domains each: (1) work to family and (2) family to work conflict. Health outcomes were divided into physical health and mental health; (1) physical health was measured with self-rated health and (2) mental health was measured with depressive symptoms (The Patient Health Questionnaire-9) and suicidal behavior (Korean version of Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview). Socio-demographic, work domain, and family domain factors were considered as confounders of the associations between work-family conflict and health outcomes. All analyses were conducted using STATA version 12. Firstly, there were consistent associations found between work-family conflicts and health outcomes among total married workers. Poor self-rated health, depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior were positively associated with strain based and time based work-to-family conflicts and strain and responsibility based family-to-work conflicts, when all possible confounders were adjusted. Secondly, slight gender moderating effects on these associations were found, even though it was not statistically significant. Among women, strain based and time based work-to-family conflicts were significantly associated with all health outcomes; poor self-rated health, depressive symptoms, and suicidal behavior. On the contrary, among men, strain based family-to-work conflict and responsibility based family-to-work conflict were significantly associated with poor self-rated health and suicidal behavior. Regarding socio-demographic, work and family domain factors, caregiving hours were negatively associated with poor self-rated health both among men and women. However, managerial position and presence of children younger than 6yrs old had positive association with depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior only among women and working hours and income level had positive association with depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior only among men. The results suggest that the work-family conflicts have negative impacts on the health outcomes of the married workers in South Korea and there are gender moderating effects in terms of the fact that the work-to-family conflict has more association with women and the family-to-work conflict with men. Therefore, family friendly policies should be introduced focusing on this gender difference to improve the health of the married working population. For women who have children younger than 6yrs old, reducing their household burden as well as improving their status at work and for men, increasing hours spent at family and adjusting working hours would be needed. By doing these, it would be possible not only to enhance the health of married workers but also to reduce the gender gaps in the labor market, the so called sexual division of labor, too.