Abstract: Through an analysis of the survey data from Chinese knowledge employees, this study tries to examine the different outcomes of different work-family climates of the knowledge employees. The results indicate that both the family-sacrificed climate in the work and the work- sacrificed climate in the family have positive significant effects on work-family conflicts; while both the family-caring climate in the work and the work-caring climate in the family have positive significant effects on work satisfaction and family satisfaction. It is worth noting that the family-sacrificed climate in this sample has positive significant effects on work satisfaction. This reflects a special phenomenon in the work-family climate in the context of Chinese culture, thus, this paper tries to interprete the above results from the perspective of Chinese tranditional Confucian ethics and gender differences.

Key words: work-family climate; work-family conflict; work satisfaction; family satisfaction