The Mediation Effect of Burnout on the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intention Among Malaysian Women Engineers

An increasing number of women participate in the work force due to socio-economic development result a big impact to work and family institution. Failure to meet demand for both work and family lead to work-family conflict that may give negative consequences on work and family. An example of major work-related outcome is burnout which can lead to turnover intention. This paper aims to identify the relationship between work-family conflict, burnout and turnover intention. It is proposed that there will be a positive relationship between workfamily conflict and turnover intention, work-family conflict and burnout and also burnout and turnover intention. In addition there is an indirect relationship between work-family conflict and turnover intention through the mediation effect of burnout.