Purpose: This study builds on the awareness that job demands in high-growth industries can affect employees’ ability to balance work and family roles. It investigates how demographic factors influence strategies that employees in Ghanaian banks adopt to cope with such work-life conflicts and their implications for their job satisfaction. The authors adopted a quantitative research approach, collecting data from 263 employees of 4 Ghanaian banks. The data were further analysed using IBM SPSS Version 21 and then AMOS Version 21. The results show that work-family conflict is not gender-specific but rather a problem for both males and females. Furthermore, age and education do not significantly contribute to the employees' work-family conflict experiences. Coping strategies particularly reactive role behaviour coping strategies such as time management, waking up early to work on family obligations before work roles help to reduce work-family conflicts. Ghanaian bank management is encouraged to support their employees by introducing policies such as allowing them to work from home one day a week or introducing childcare arrangements at work to reduce work and family-related stressors. This study has important implications for work-life balance in high growth industries. There is a dearth of knowledge about how rapidly changing work demands in high-growth economic sectors have challenged work-life balance in Africa. The study helps fill that gap.
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Work-Family Conflict, Job Satisfaction, Demographic Factors, Ghana
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Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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