Never the twain shall meet? The customer-oriented bureaucracy and equal employment opportunity in service work

Management Research News

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 216-227

  Knox, Angela ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Equal opportunities; Gender; Gender discrimination; Hotel and catering industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992928849     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170710733287     Document Type: Article

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