Meeting career expectation: Can it enhance job satisfaction of generation Y?

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 147-168

  Kong, Haiyan ^a   Wang, Sujuan ^a   Fu, Xingxing ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Careers; China; Generation Y; Generational differences; Hospitality management; Human resources management; Job satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922762454     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-08-2013-0353     Document Type: Article

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