Temporal workplace flexibility and associated work-life outcomes for professionals

Creating Balance?: International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 209-223

  Hill, E Jeffrey ^a   Carroll, Sarah June ^a   Jones, Blake L ^a   Buswell, Lydia A ^a   Fackrell, Tamara A ^a   Galovan, Adam M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84856383655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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