dc.description.abstract | According to the 2020 International Labor Statistics report by the Ministry of Labor, Taiwan′s average annual working hours per worker were 2021 hours, ranking fourth among 40 surveyed countries and second among Asian countries. Taiwanese workers spend a significant amount of time on their jobs. However, conflicts between work and family roles and expectations can have negative effects on individuals′
physical and mental health and work performance, as well as negative impacts on businesses.Previous literature has paid less attention to the relationship between work-family
conflicts and participation in education and training. However, for businesses pursuing sustainable talent development goals, education and training play an important role in achieving these goals.
Based on previous literature, this study categorizes the
independent variable, work-family conflict, into work-family conflict and family-work conflict. Education and training are classified into general skills training, professional
skills training, and business skills training. The study explores the correlation between the two variables and examines gender differences.The data for this study are obtained from the Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA) of the Center for Survey Research of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica. The data used are from the 2019 Annual Survey of Employment and Living Conditions of Workers. The effective sample size is 4215.
The study finds that for employees, general skills training usually has higher autonomy, and when they feel time pressure due to work-family conflicts, they tend to reduce the time spent on general skills training. This situation is more evident among men. For women, regardless of work-family conflicts, family-work conflicts, or workfamily conflicts, participation in professional skills training shows a positive and significant relationship. Men show a positive and significant relationship between business skills courses and family-work conflict. | en_US |