Work-life policy implementation: Breaking down or creating barriers to inclusiveness?

Human Resource Management

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 295-310

  Ryan, Ann Marie ^a   Kossek, Ellen Ernst ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 49049101882     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20213     Document Type: Review

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