The two most demanding roles in the world include your job and your family. Sometimes, these two compete for each other in a very aggressive way, and that can create a lot of problems for individuals, families, organizations, and society.

In this episode, we discuss the nature of work life conflict, as well as a business's priority of making money. Should businesses focus on productivity or making their people happy? The research might surprise you.

Finally, we explore how amazing industrial organizational psychology is and how it can help improve a significant portion of people's lives by the things it studies.

We end with some practical feedback for employers and employees on how they can reduce work life conflict from their lives!

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