Coverage and effectiveness of family-responsive workplace policies

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-337

  Glass, Jennifer L ^a   Finley, Ashley ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee benefits; Evaluation; Work family policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036391957     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-4822(02)00063-3     Document Type: Article

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