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İşgören Etnosentrizmine Yönelik Bir Uygulama
A Research on Employee Ethnocentrism

Author(s): Alptekin Sökmen, Serdar TARAKÇIOĞLU
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Orhan Sağçolak
Keywords: Ethnocentrism; Employee Ethnocentrism; Hotel Operations

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to identify ethnocentric behavior tendencies of 129 boundary spanning role employees, who works in 5 star hotels of Ankara, using Employee Ethnocentrism Survey. Also in this study, independent t-test and analysis of variance tests were used to investigate differences, among respondents’ demographic variables. The results demonstrated that, boundary spanning role employees of 5 star hotels in Ankara have moderately ethnocentric tendency, and several significant differences in terms of respondents’ age and gender. Male employees, 39 age and elders, and high school graduates show a higher ethnocentric tendency among the hotel employees.

  • Issue Year: 2/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 25-44
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish
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