Managing incidents of work-family conflict: A decision-making perspective

Human Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1179-1212

  Powell, Gary N ^a   Greenhaus, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Conflict; Decision making; Social support; Work and family

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748962055     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726706069765     Document Type: Article

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