“[A role conflict is] … the simultaneous occurrence of two (or more) sets of pressures such that compliance with one would make more difficult compliance with the other.”

—  Robert L. Kahn

Source: Organizational stress: Studies in role conflict and ambiguity, 1964, p. 19

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