The simultaneous effects of person-organization and person-job fit on Turkish hotel managers

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 644-661

  Iplik, Fatma Nur ^a   Kilic, Kemal Can ^a   Yalcin, Azmi ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Five star hotels; Hotel managers; Job attitudes; Job satisfaction; Person job fit; Person organization fit; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960066486     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09596111111143386     Document Type: Article

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