Working women face stress due to the multiple roles they need to handle to achieve work and family life satisfaction when there is no full support from their spouses. Conflict will arise when they cannot balance their tasks at the workplace and their home. Nurses have many responsibilities in their workplace while needing to manage their families as well. Work-family conflict occurs when workplace responsibilities interfere with family life, such as inflexible working hours, work overload, interpersonal conflict at work and unsupportive supervisors in the organization. This study hopes to identify the scenario of work family conflict among nurses in public sector and outline some strategies for the enhancement of their well-being. Ten respondents were chosen based on purposive sampling. The study was conducted among various levels of nurses at Sarawak General Hospital. Findings from the interviews show that three factors contribute to work family conflict among nurses, namely workload, work shift and position. Recommendations have been proposed based on respondent feedback as well as researchers' view such as reducing work family conflict through work family segmentation, support from family (husband, children and other family members) and self-commitment which comprises the elements of work priority, positive attitude, open communication and intention to work.
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