The Impact of Family Supportive Policies and Practices on Organizational Commitment to the Army

The article argues that military must recognize the legitimacy of family demands on their members and provide a framework for the fulfillment of both military and family role responsibilities to sustain organizational commitment. Work-family conflict is defined as the situation in which the role of a person in work and family domains are mutually incompatible in some respect. According to the author, when a person faces work-family conflict, he favors family over his work resulting in decreased commitment to the work organization