THE INFLUENCE OF WORK FAMILY CONFLICT AND WORK FAMILY SYNERGY TO EMOTIONAL EXAHUSTION AND LIFE SATISFACTION AND THEIR INFLUENCE TO PERFORMANCE

This research explores the influence of work family conflict and work family synergy to emotional exhaustion and life satisfaction and their influence to performance. Understanding about work family conflict and work family synergy will enable the managers to better manage those aspects, so the manager will benefit from better performance of any employee in the organization. Questionnaires were distributed to multiple target respondents of diverse backgrounds that include lecturers and university employees, government employees, employees of a restaurant, employees of small and medium businesses, and employees of a manufacturing business. A total of 350 questionnaires were distributed and the returned questionnaires that can be processed as many as 269 questionnaires. This study found several findings. First, work family conflict has positive influence to emotional exhaustion and negative influence to life satisfaction. Second, work family synergy has negative influence to emotional exhaustion and positive influence to life satisfaction. Third, emotional exhaustion has negative influence to performance. Fourth, life satisfaction has positive influence to performance. Keywords: work family conflict, work family synergy, life satisfaction, emotional exhaustion, performanc