Cross-cultural differences on work-to-family conflict and role satisfaction: A taiwanese-british comparison

Human Resource Management

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-85

  Lu, Luo ^a   Cooper, Cary L ^b   Kao, Shu Fang ^c   Chang, Ting Ting ^d   Allen, Tammy D ^e   Lapierre, Laurent M ^f   O'driscoll, Michael P ^g   Poelmans, Steven A Y ^h   Sanchez, Juan I ⁱ   Spector, Paul E ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HSUAN CHUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

ⁱ FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family help; Family responsibility; Family satisfaction; Supervisory support; Work constraints; Work satisfaction; Work to family conflict (WFC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952064284     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20334     Document Type: Article

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