The Importance of Supervisor Support for Effective Hotel Employees: An Empirical Investigation in Cameroon

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 388-397

  Karatepe, Osman M ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cameroon; hotel employees; job embeddedness; job outcomes; supervisor support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907200550     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: 19389663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965513511147     Document Type: Article

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