Human resource manager insights on creating and sustaining successful reduced-load work arrangements

Human Resource Management

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-727

  Friede, Alyssa ^a   Kossek, Ellen Ernst ^b   Lee, Mary Dean ^c   Macdermid, Shelley ^d,e  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michign State University

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Center for Families

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EID: 56749085453     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20241     Document Type: Article

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