Professional and personal incompatibilities with demands on managers

Abstract

Modern managers suffer and often recognize this at work but they rarely show dissatisfaction for reasons that range from distrust to a lack of understanding of their feelings. Several reasons for this suffering were examined to analyze the perception of managers in relation to the integration of quality of life at work and in their personal lives. The importance of this study was related to the dissatisfaction that this lack of understanding produced in the individual who was incapable of dealing with the causes, and also to the detriment on organization productivity. Speeches made by 30 managers were analyzed concerning satisfaction, identification with organization objectives, relationships with their company, superiors, peers and subordinates as well as feelings of assurance and pleasure and then compared to their replies to questionnaires. A great discrepancy was found between these speeches and replies in relation to work satisfaction and the simultaneous dissatisfaction related to the sacrifice that work imposed on their personal lives.