Pluralistic Ignorance and the Flexibility Bias: Understanding and Mitigating Flextime and Flexplace Bias at Work

Work and Occupations

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-62

  Munsch, Christin L ^a   Ridgeway, Cecilia L ^b   Williams, Joan C ^c  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

flexibility stigma; flexplace; flextime; pluralistic ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893966899     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888413515894     Document Type: Article

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