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Impact of flexible scheduling on employee performance regarding stress and work-family conflict Raja Abdul Ghafoor Khan (Corresponding Author) MS Scholar, University of Lahore, Islamabad, Pakistan E-mail: [e-mail] Furqan Ahmad Khan MS Scholar, University of Lahore, Islamabad, Pakistan E-mail: [e-mail] Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan Associate Professor, Preston University, Islamabad Pakistan E-mail: [e-mail] Mohsin Shakeel MS Scholar, University of Lahore, Islamabad, Pakistan E-mail: [e-mail] ABSTRACT Stress, work-family conflicts and flexible scheduling are three of the most important elements in organizational studies. The focus of current study is to understand the effect of Stress, workfamily conflicts and flexible scheduling on employee’s performance and also to understand whether flexible scheduling helps in reducing stress and work-family conflicts or not. The back bone of this study is the secondary data comprised of comprehensive literature review. A survey has also been conducted to strengthen the idea comprising of a sample of 70 employees from different organizations. 53 of them responded and the respond rate was 75%. Descriptive statistics is used to analyze the data. Results show that stress and work family conflict negatively affect the employee performance and flexible scheduling has a positive effect on employee performance. Primary study as well as literature review showed that flexible scheduling also helps in reducing stress and work-family conflicts. However, results are strongly based on the literature review i.e. secondary data. Keywords: Work-family conflict, flexible scheduling, work-family balance, employee performance.
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INTRODUCTION Work family balance is one of the most emerging concepts in the field of business and in the corporate world. Organizations are trying to reduce this conflict for the betterment of

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