EFFECTS OF FLEXIBILITY & PERMEABILITY ON JOB SATISFACTION OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: A STUDY OF PAKISTAN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY

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.