Work-Life Balance: Individual and Organizational Strategies and Practices

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well Being

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Poelmans, Steven ^a   Odle Dusseau, Heather ^b   Beham, Barbara ^c  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childbearing age; Fertility; Harmonization; Work family balance; Work family conflict; Work family enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865407601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211913.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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