Abstract:
A wide range of research shows that increased work load and after work hours, lowers job
satisfaction of working women. Moreover, they also cause negligence of family and personal
life. Working women find it very difficult to manage their office and home responsibilities
specially in eastern settings. The interest of this study is to find out whether the borders among
their office work and home work should be kept stronger or blur. For this purpose, the impact
of permeability, operational flexibility, temporal flexibility and supportive supervision on
women job satisfaction were investigated. Software industry of Pakistan was approached to
conduct this study. It’s explanatory and descriptive in nature, and the quantitative research
approach was used in this study. Data was collected through questionnaire from 160 women
working in the software industry of Pakistan, that is the sample population of this study.
Technique used in this study was random sampling technique. Results showed that operational
flexibility, temporal flexibility and supportive supervision have a direct positive association
with job satisfaction. However, permeability has a reverse negative association with job
satisfaction. The findings of this study can be helpful for the policy makers of an organization
in considering how flexible work hours, flexible work schedules, permeability and supportive
supervision can affect job satisfaction of women engineers.
