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Can Gamification Increase Employee Engagement in a New Zealand Context?

McIntyre, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Gamification is the application of game principals in non-game contexts (i.e. the workplace). With unsatisfactory employee engagement in New Zealand, gamification is proposed as a possible solution in this thesis. ...
The CEO role in New Zealand: perceptions and interpretative schema tensions and paradoxes

McNally, Beverley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the perceptions of the CEO role in large New Zealand organisations. The study is a response to calls from scholars for more empirical work on executive leadership specifically, as it pertains to the ...
The Challenges of Representing Rural Migrant Workers in China: Factors Influencing the Goals and Strategies of Labour NGOs in Beijing, Tianjin and Yunnan Province

Zhou, Ao (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Labour NGOs operating in mainland China have played the role of de facto representatives of rural migrant workers since their emergence in the 1990s. After their rapid development for almost two decades, the introduction ...
Chinese international students travelling with friends: Group decision-making and disagreement prevention

Zhu, Hanru (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis investigates the group decision-making process of Chinese international students travelling with friends in New Zealand. Focusing on groups of friends, a neglected decision-making unit, it explores models of ...
Chi Phat: An exemplar of a successful community based tourism destination in Cambodia

Tieng, Sophea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Community based tourism (CBT) has been one the driving forces of the growth of tourism in Cambodia. Even though tourism scholars recognise the importance of the subject, community success in Cambodia remains a relatively ...
CLEW'D IN April 2015

Plimmer, G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Poor leadership, weak people management and flawed upward information flows are contributing to the stagnation of public sector productivity, participants at a recent seminar were told. A change in focus for the HR profession ...
CLEW'D IN April 2017

Plimmer, G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018-09-25)

New Zealand women are paid 12% less than men on an hourly basis and, far from improving, the gap is widening (Statistics New Zealand, 2016). Dr Jackie Blue, the Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Commissioner at the Human ...
CLEW'D IN February 2017

Plimmer, G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018-09-25)

Since enactment of the Employment Contracts Act (ECA) in 1991, for the duration of which the New Zealand Government ceased compiling such data, the Centre for Labour, Employment and Work (formerly Industrial Relations ...
CLEW'D IN February 2018

Plimmer, G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018-09-25)

Unequal pay and sexual harassment are two examples of the persistence of gender inequalities, over 40 years since the emergence of second wave feminism and the passing of Equal Pay legislation. Although many formal and ...
CLEW'D IN June 2018

Plimmer, G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018-09-25)

Employee performance management (PM) has become increasingly popular in the last three decades. It supposedly improves individual attitudes, and then organizational performance. It does this through a continuous process ...
Climate change adaptation in a coastal hotel sector: The case of Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Nhep, Tinat (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Tourism is one of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing economic sectors with key contributions to gross domestic product (direct and total contribution), employment (direct and total contribution), visitor exports, and ...
Co-creation experience and foodscape in tourism: A case study of Yogyakarta

Widyanta, Andy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Research focusing on co-creation experience in tourism has seen a significant increase in the last decade considering its importance as a basis for experiential value creation and future innovation. Co-creation experience ...
Community events and the adoption of social media

Gadd, Alexandra (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The technological capabilities and popularity of social media applications such Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are rapidly increasing with technological advances. More individuals are using these applications to communicate ...
Community Governance and Civil Society: An Examination of the Purpose, Intent and Structure of Residents' Groups in New Zealand

Coburn, Jarrod (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Residents’ groups have been in existence in New Zealand for almost 150 years yet very little is known about them. The collection of residents’, ratepayers’ and progressive associations, community councils, neighbourhood ...
Community Involvement and Participation in Tourism Development in Tanzania: A Case Study of Local Communities in Barabarani Village, Mto wa Mbu, Arusha-Tanzania

Michael, Muganda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis discusses the involvement and participation of local communities in tourism development in Tanzania using a case study of local communities in Barabarani village, Mto wa Mbu, Arusha. To explore this research ...
A comparative study of the leadership preferences of Chinese Millennials and non-Millennials

Wang, Yiwan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

There has been a lack of academic research focusing on the generational differences in leadership preferences in the Chinese context, particularly in terms of the Millennial generation. In what way, if at all, do the ...
Conceptualizing International Development Project Sustainability through a Discursive Theory of Institutionalization

Jackson, Elizabeth C. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Every year billions of dollars are spent on international development projects. Many of these projects, while initially appearing to be successful, lack the systems and resources that would contribute to their long term ...
Conflict and satisfaction in distribution channels: Hotel operators' perspectives in Cambodia

Eng, Sarik (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This study examines hoteliers’ perceptions of the level of satisfaction and sources of conflict with both traditional and online intermediaries (TI and OI) in Cambodia. It unveils the overall level of satisfaction of ...
Coping with emotion in New Zealand Business schools

Scahill, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Emotion is an integral aspect of organisational life and this thesis examines the emotional demands that academics experience in their workplace and the consequences this has for them. At a more specific level, the thesis ...
Create-ing Business: Understanding Professional Tension in an Advertising Agency

Pant, Saumya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

The purpose of this research is to concentrate on aspects of organisation culture in an advertising agency and how they help us in understanding professional tensions and conflicts. To do so I have looked within advertising ...