Work Family Conflict, Job Stress and Employee Engagement on Innovation Work Behavior: Mediating Roles of Career Adaptability

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this article is to identify the effect of Work Family Conflict, Job stress and employee engagement on innovation work behavior mediating by career adaptability according to conservation of resources theory.   Theoretical framework: Women's emancipation in Indonesian is related to work regarding the multiple roles experienced by women at work. on the one hand women have a desire to work outside the home, but on the other hand they have responsibilities in managing the household. Work family conflict is interesting to study because of inconsistent findings on the effect of work family conflict on innovative work behavior. Research by Xu et al. (2022) said that work family conflict has a negative and significant effect on employee innovative behavior. However, research (Choi et al. 2018) found a direct positive effect of Work Family Conflict on innovative behavior. Then the mediating variable is needed to confirm a clearer relationship between work family conflict on work behavior innovation. Therefore, in this study is to expand career adaptability as a mediating variable to link the relationship.   Method: This study is a quantitative study that collected 426 valid samples from married female nurses from five hospitals in Indonesia, makes use of Smart PLS Software 3.0 is used to verify the proposed hypothesis.   Results and conclusion: The findings a practical perspective, career adaptability plays a mediating role between work family conflict, job stress on innovation work behavior but career adaptability not mediating role between employee engagement on innovation work behavior.   Implications of the research: This has implications for continuing (X. Wang, Zhang, and Chun 2021) research to focus on the development of work-family conflict, in order to enrich the research scale and relevant findings regarding work-family conflict and career adaptation using COR theory.