Conflicts between management practice and family relations: a complex and multidimensional approach

This article seeks to understand the meanings of conflict experience between management practice and family relations. The study, based epistemologically on the premises of the interpretative paradigm, used a qualitative approach and was conducted with managers who work at the Brazil Bank. The conflict between the management practice and the relations in the family is related to the time devoted to exercising the roles of work and family, the incompatibility of interests and differing perceptions on the part of the agents involved. The research revealed the existence of factors that provoke conflict in management practice and in family relationships. The managers' perception is that the conflicts in family relations affected them emotionally and interfere in their professional performance. Addressing the issue in a complex and multidimensional perspective is a way to acknowledge the existence of spatial, temporal and behavioral connections, and this finding may help to understand the experience of the managers in a unique and multifaceted way. Additional studies should consider the links between gender, personality, context, nature of work and career stage. It is hoped that the theme will broaden the analysis focus of conflict and support in the understanding of organizational theory and practice.