Lacking balance? Work-life employment practices in the modern economy

Personnel Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Hyman, Jeff ^a   Summers, Juliette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hours of work; Lifestyles; Responsibilities; Workforce planning; Working patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042813595     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480410539498     Document Type: Article

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