Managing work-life policies: Disruption versus dependency arguments. Explaining managerial attitudes towards employee utilization of work-life policies

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1222-1236

  den Dulk, Laura ^a   de Ruijter, Judith ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dependency; Managerial attitudes; Vignette study; Work disruption; Work life balance; Work life policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249133259     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802109986     Document Type: Article

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