Work life balance and the retention of managers in Spanish SMEs

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-108

  Cegarra Leiva, David ^a   Sánchez Vidal, Eugenia ^b   Cegarra Navarro, Juan Gabriel ^b  

^a Centro Universitario de la Defensa de San Javier   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

job satisfaction; managers; SME; turnover; WLB culture; WLB practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858978996     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.610955     Document Type: Article

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