Crafting a balance between work and home

Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1539-1559

  Sturges, Jane ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

careers; job crafting; long hours; work life balance; work non work conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870031858     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712457435     Document Type: Article

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