Family Cohesion and the Efficacy of Employees in the Working Environment

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between the efficacy of employees in the work environment and the cohesion in their families. Efficacy in the work environment is about the confidence and readiness of a person to successfully perform a certain task, focusing on the belief of a person to organize, operate and manage future situations. Family cohesion is conceived as emotional connection that family members have with each other and an expression of affiliation within the family. In this study, 150 employees of public institutions in Macedonia took part; the average age is 38,93. One-Way Anova was applied to determine the difference of the efficacy scale based on the type of family by cohesion. It showed a valuable difference between the types of disengaged, separated, connected and very connected families in the scale of employees’ efficacy in the work environment. The linear regression shows that the employees’ efficacy at work can be explained by their cohesion in the family as a predictor. Based on gender, females report higher levels of cohesion while the age and the experience of the employees as moderating variables do not have a statistically significant effect on the relationship of the phenomena.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2p427