Methodological approaches to job satisfaction measurement in hospitality firms

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 865-882

  Khalilzadeh, Jalayer ^a   Chiappa, Giacomo Del ^b   Jafari, Jafar ^c   Borujeni, Hamid Zargham ^a  

^a ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Universities of Sassari and CRENoS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Cognition; Employees behaviour; Estimation methods; Hotels; Iran; Job descriptive index; Job satisfaction; Measurement methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881586209     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-05-2012-0067     Document Type: Article

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