The impact of work-family conflict on social work and human service worker job satisfaction and organizational commitment: An exploratory study

Administration in Social Work

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 55-74

  Lambert, Eric G ^a   Pasupuleti, Sudershan ^a   Cluse Tolar, Terry ^a   Jennings, Mylo ^a   Baker, David ^b  

^a Mail Stop 119 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; Social workers; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845371802     PISSN: 03643107     EISSN: 15444376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J147v30n03_05     Document Type: Article

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