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Landscape aesthetics, tourism, and change: Case studies in Nepal

Joshi, Jharna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This research explores how residents and tourists perceive landscape aesthetics in tourism-based landscapes that are continuously changing. Three case study sites in Nepal are examined. Landscapes are dynamic, multifunctional ...
Leadership for transformation in tourism education

Schott, C. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

In light of ever greater financial and philosophical attacks on tourism higher education across the world, it is critical to contemplate the role of tourism education at university level and its place in modern societies. ...
The Leadership Processes of Pacific Public Servants in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Paea, Mele Katea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This dissertation presents research focused on leadership processes among Pacific public servants at multiple levels in the New Zealand Public Service. The current study was guided by this research question: What are the ...
The Limits and possibilities of history: How a wider, deeper and more engaged understanding of business history can foster innovative thinking.

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Calls for greater diversity in management research, education and practice have increased in recent years, driven by a sense of fairness and ethical responsibility, but also because research shows that greater diversity ...
Managers Matter: Who Manages New Zealand's Volunteers?

Smith, Karen; Dutton, Nicholas; Cordery, Carolyn Joy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

In partnership with Volunteering New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington undertook a nationwide survey of volunteer managers between December 2009 and February 2010. The research was funded by a Tindall Foundation ...
Managing employee performance in transition economies: A study of Vietnamese public organisations

Vu, Tai Anh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Public employees’ poor performance has been cited as one of the leading factors in the failure of reform programmes in developing countries. Although previous employee performance reforms have targeted selection, training, ...
Managing Interpretation at a UNESCO World Heritage Site: A Supply-Side Perspective of Angkor Wat Temple, Cambodia

Sarm, Chanvirak (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Interpretation and its relevance for visitor experiences have been discussed extensively but little attention has been paid to the management of interpretation by multiple stakeholders. UNESCO World Heritage Sites involve ...
Managing to Compete? Employment, Work and Labour Relations in the Hospitality Industry in New Zealand

Ryan, Rose (Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)

This thesis outlines the nature of human resource management in the Accommodation, Cafes, and Restaurants industrial sector in New Zealand in the late 1990s. Using data collected through postal surveys, interviews and ...
Managing to start: The application of lean startup and design thinking to academic commercialisation projects

Townend, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis examines the application of Lean Startup and Design Thinking processes to the commercialisation of academic research. Using retrospective analysis of project work undertaken by the “Hyv” team as part of the ...
Māori values for Māori business: Cultural Capital in Indigenous Organisations

Best, Philip; Love, Matene (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Cultural capital holds much prospect as a theoretical concept for engaging core Indigenous Māori values in capitalistic endeavours, yet it still awaits satisfactory interpretation by Indigenous Māori management theorists ...
Mapping the Industrial Relations System of Samoa: An Assessment of Industrial Democracy and Employee Participation in Employment Relations Decisions in a Pacific Island Nation.

Ah Chong-Fruean, Patricia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis maps out the industrial relations system of Samoa with specific emphasis on industrial democracy and employee participation in the making of rules and decisions affecting worker's employment. The thesis outlines ...
Moments of Rupture. Changing the State Project for Teachers: a Regulation Approach Study in Education Industrial Relations

Simpkin, Patricia Gay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the response of secondary school teachers to the Tomorrow's Schools education reforms. Their early response was made largely through their union, the Post Primary Teachers' Association ...
Mō tātou, ā, mō kā uri ā muri ake nei – For Us and Our Children After Us: Iwi Entity in the Post-Settlement World

Roxburgh, Erin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis aims to gain a better understanding of iwi and their associated business entities in their post settlement phase and how they maintain their own kaupapa Māori. The study examines the complex environment in ...
The motivation of the Chinese post-90s generation for travelling abroad

Cao, Xinyue (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

There is well-documented research on tourism motivation in tourism literature. But till now, there is limited research of tourist motivation on Chinese youth travel group, who is so-called the Chinese post-90s generation. ...
Mountain bikers' attitudes towards mountain biking tourism destinations

Moularde, Julie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis, grounded in consumer culture theory, delves into the sociocultural dynamics involved in tourist attitude content and formation. It addresses gaps in special interest tourism, sports tourism and tourist attitudes ...
The Music of Organisations: an Aesthetic Ethnography

Bathurst, Ralph James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

Arts-based expressions are becoming an increasingly important for understanding and improving business practice. More specifically, drama, painting and music are all artistic tools being used as ways of helping leaders ...
Navigating the tensions of flexible work: An exploration of the individual strategies employed by flexibly working parents

Andrejic, Natalija (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The demand for workplace flexibility is growing in New Zealand. The increasing and fragmented employment participation of women has given rise to growing complexity within family lives and higher demand for flexible work. ...
The Neuroscience of Gender Bias within Organisations: Implicit and Explicit Influences

Wicks, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

It has been 30 years since the metaphor of a ‘glass ceiling’ was introduced, yet progress to address gender bias in organisations has been slow. Within a context in which employment is rapidly changing and technologies are ...
New Zealand public management - tensions of a model from the 1980s

Norman, Richard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This year, the systems established in the late 1980s to reform the New Zealand public sector turn 21, and, as in the 1980s, economic pressures and the election of political leaders of a different generation from those they ...
Organisational identity and alcohol use among young employees: A case study of a professional services firm

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Abstract Background: Cultural influences on young people’s drinking have been the focus of much research and policy practice. Young people’s drinking is influenced by a range of institutions, including the workplace, yet ...