The relationship between work–family conflict, job satisfaction and mentoring in the hotel industry in Greece: The role of gender and working environment

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between work-family conflict, job satisfaction and mentoring by examining the effect of gender and working environment. The findings from the sample of 250 hotel managers indicate that WFC is negatively related to job satisfaction and career mentoring for two genders, although is positively related to socioemotional mentoring for female managers. Furthermore, WFC is positively related to both time and schedule flexibility and work demands for female managers. This study can be an initial step in establishing the crucial role of mentoring and flexibility on work-family interference for two genders.

Keywords:

• Flexibility
• gender
• job satisfaction
• mentoring
• work demands
• work-family conflict

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Maria Tsagkanou

Maria Tsagkanou received her Ph.D in Management from the Department of Business Administration of the University of Patras. Her research interests include human research management, work-family balance, mentoring, job satisfaction, organizational support policies. Email: [email protected]

Panagiotis Polychroniou

Panagiotis Polychroniou is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Conflict Management at the University of Patras. He received his Ph.D. from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research interests include conflict management, emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, mentoring, job satisfaction and organizational crisis management. He has published a number of articles that appears in major international scientific journals and conference proceedings.