Work-life balance: Promises made and promises kept

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1976-1995

  Heywood, John S ^a,b   Siebert, W S ^b,d   Wei, Xiangdong ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

High performance workplaces; Motivation; Work incentives; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957772787     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2010.505098     Document Type: Article

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