'As cooks go, she went': Is labour churn inevitable?

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 163-185

  Rowley, Gill ^a   Purcell, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospitality; Human resource management; Labour churn; Strategy; Turnover retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011114030     PISSN: 02784319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0278-4319(00)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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