Relationship between workaholism, job insecurity andwork-family conflict: A research on engineers workingin a technopark

The technological development phase experienced by each industrial revolution causes employees to work more intensively day by day. The rapid change brought about by these technological developments and necessity of making quick decisions can motivate employers and employees to work more. Moreover, due to the progress in information communication technologies, business and private life boundary has become increasingly uncertain in many sectors. Although, in terms of productivity it may seem positive for employers, workaholism expresses continuous work that arises from ongoing work without interruption at a level that will negatively affect health, happiness and relationships with other people; it contains the negativities that may cause long-term work-family conflict. However, employees sometimes want to stay longer in the workplace because of their problems, and sometimes they see it as a necessity due to job insecurity. In this context, in this study, the relationships between work-family conflict and workaholism and job insecurity are examined through a sample of engineers working in a Technopark in Ankara. For this purpose, data obtained by a questionnaire with 153 participants were analyzed by correlation and multiple regression analysis methods. According to the findings of the study, only subdimensions of workaholism, working excessively and working compulsively; and subdimension of job insecurity, quantitative job insecurity, were found to have a statistically and positively significant effect on both work-family and family-work conflict. The second sub-dimension of job insecurity, qualitative job insecurity does not have a significant effect on work-family conflict. Besides, when the concepts of workaholism and job insecurity are examined together, it is seen that workaholism affects work-family conflict more than job insecurity.