Work-family balance or greedy organizations?

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Burchielli, Rosaria ^a   Bartram, Timothy ^a   Thanacoody, Rani ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 47749105316     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/018124ar     Document Type: Article

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