ABSTRAKThe number of female employees in the Korean workforce has risen. However, the Korean corporate climate, characterized by collectivism,hierarchism, and senior and masculine privilege, leads them to experience worklifeconflict and even halt their careers. This climate stems from a social andorganizational culture deeply rooted in traditional Confucianism. In Korea, wherehousework and childcare have long been considered the province of women,female employees find it more difficult to balance office work and family life.The Korean corporate climate welcomes overtime work, and women who workoutside the home must juggle this and family responsibilities. We conceptualizebehavior such as acquiescing to overtime work as submissive loyalty and elucidatework-family conflict and decreasing job and life satisfaction as consequencesthereof. The analysis, based on a structural equation model, revealed thatsubmissive loyalty increases work-family conflict, which decreases job and lifesatisfaction. |