Absence Culture: The Effects of Union Membership Status and Union-Management Climate

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Iverson, Roderick D ^a   Buttigieg, Donna M ^b   Maguire, Catherine ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 0242459009     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/007496ar     Document Type: Article

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