Flexible working times: Effects on employees' exhaustion, work-nonwork conflict and job performance

Career Development International

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-295

  Kattenbach, Ralph ^a   Demerouti, Evangelia ^b   Nachreiner, Friedhelm ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flexible working hours; Germany; Performance management; Personal health; Time based management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953973402     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620431011053749     Document Type: Article

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