Job involvement, commitment, satisfaction and turnover: Evidence from hotel employees in Cyprus

Tourism Management

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 129-140

  Zopiatis, Anastasios ^a   Constanti, Panayiotis ^b   Theocharous, Antonis L ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Job involvement; Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; SEM; Turnover intention

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; EMPLOYMENT; KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURNOVER;

CYPRUS;

EID: 84885133136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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