PERANAN MASA BEKERJA TERHADAP PENGURUSAN KERJA DAN KEHIDUPAN DALAM KALANGAN COPRENEURSHIP DI SABAH

THE ROLE OF WORKING TIME ON THE MANAGEMENT OF WORK AND LIFE AMONG THE COPRENEURSHIP COMMUNITY IN SABAH

Abstract

ABSTRAK Perniagaan keluarga melibatkan copreneurship, iaitu pasangan suami dan isteri yang mengusahakan sebuah perniagaan bersama-sama. Lazimnya, perniagaan copreneurs ini bermatlamat untuk mengharmonikan tuntutan pekerjaan dan perihal rumah tangga mereka sekali gus. Elemen masa bekerja dilihat amat penting bagi pasangan copreneurs untuk melaksanakan kedua domain kerja dan kehidupan agar berupaya meminimumkan konflik kerja dan kehidupan dengan adanya masa bekerja sendiri berbanding bekerja dengan orang lain. Namun demikian, sejauh mana peranan masa bekerja copreneur mempengaruhi isu kerja dan kehidupan berlaku di Pulau Mabul masih menjadi persoalan. Hal ini demikian kerana kajian lepas mendapati bahawa lelaki copreneurs lebih mendominasi masa bekerja lebih lama berbanding wanita. Peranan masa bekerja yang lama memberi limpahan kerja dan kehidupan negatif terhadap lelaki copreneurs. Rentetan itu, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti peranan masa bekerja yang mempengaruhi isu kerja dan kehidupan terhadap lelaki dan wanita copreneurs dan pola pelaksanaan kerja dan kehidupan copreneurs di Pulau Mabul, Sabah. Dengan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif, pengkaji menggunakan temu bual secara mendalam ke atas 14 orang copreneurs. Dapatan kajian ini mendapati bahawa peranan masa bekerja terhadap kedua domain berkenaan lebih menumpukan terhadap golongan wanita copreneurs. Hal ini kerana wanita copreneurs berada lebih lama di tempat kerja dan bekerja di rumah bersifat sederhana dan berasaskan perniagaan daripada rumah. Dapatan kajian ini menemukan copreneurs mempunyai masa bekerja yang fleksibel meskipun menjalankan perniagaan mereka secara sepenuh masa bagi membantu meringankan bebanan kedua domain berkenaan. Secara tidak langsung, komuniti copreneurs di Pulau Mabul menemukan pola kerja dan kehidupan yang bersifat integrasi kerja dan kehidupan mereka meskipun berhadapan konflik dalaman. Sumbangan kajian ini membuka disiplin ilmu terhadap isu kerja dan kehidupan yang turut sama dialami oleh golongan copreneurship meskipun berada di luar bandar.

ABSTRACT Copreneurship refers to a family business where the husband and wife work on a business together. Normally, the copreneurs business aims to harmonize their job demands and their household matters at the same time. Working time elements are perceived as crucial for copreneurs couples to carry out both work and life domains in order to minimize work and life conflicts with their own working time rather than working with the other people. Nonetheless, how far the role of copreneurs’ working time affects the work and life issue is Mabul Island remains unanswerable. This is because last studies have found that copreneurs men dominate working hours longer than women. The role of long working hours contributed to the over workflow and negative lives of the men copreneurs. Therefore, this study aims to identify the role of working time that affects the work and life issues of both men and women copreneurs as well as the pattern of their work and life in Mabul Island, Sabah. This study adopts qualitative methods where the researcher carried out in-depth interviews on 14 copreneurs. The findings show that the role of working time on both domains is more focused on women copreneurs. This is because women copreneurs are available for a longer time at the workplace and work at home moderately with a home-based business. The research findings discovered that copreneurs have flexible working hours despite their full-time business that helped to ease the burden of the two domains. Indirectly, the copreneurs community in Mabul Island have found work and life patterns that are integral to their work and life despite facing internal conflicts. The contribution of this study serves as an eye-opener to the discipline on the work and life issues that are shared by the copreneurship even in rural areas.