Date of Conferral
2022
Degree
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
School
Business Administration
Advisor
Gregory Washington
Abstract
Job dissatisfaction among women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields costs the United States up to $1.5 billion per year. Understanding work-life balance is important for pharmaceutical leaders to assist in enhancing job satisfaction for women in science. Grounded in the work-life balance theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine workload and work-family conflict in predicting job satisfaction for women in science. Survey data were collected from 76 women employed in the pharmaceutical industry who completed a combined Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and Warr-Cook-Wall job satisfaction questionnaire. The multiple linear regression results were significant, F(2, 75) = 7.62, p = .001, R2= .173, with work-family conflict providing the only significant contribution (β = -.39, p = .03). A key recommendation is for leaders to develop strategies to regularly assess the diversity of their human resources, the advantage of diversification to their innovation goals, and employees’ overall job satisfaction. The implications for positive social change may include adding insight to the under-researched pharmaceutical industry dynamics in the United States, the working dynamics of women in STEM occupations and providing a glimpse at job satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recommended Citation
Ervin, Elizabeth, "Workload, Work–Family Conflict, and Job Satisfaction for Women in Science" (2022). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 12341.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/12341
