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Building people up: Leadership and employee resilience

Franken, Esmé (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This mixed method research, in the area of HR and leadership, explores leadership behaviours that foster employee resilience. Resilience is a key capacity in contexts where job demands and challenges are often dynamic and ...
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. ...
High Involvement Work in the New Zealand Public Service

Kirkham, Rebecca Fiona (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between high involvement work practices (HIWP) and employee outcomes, such as job satisfaction and organisational commitment, in the core New Zealand public ...
Reverse Logistics: Its Concept and Drivers in New Zealand: Case Studies

Lavender, Cristina De La Garza Garcia De (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Companies have achieved cost-reduction, marketing advantage and attention for the natural environment as some of the benefits from their reverse logistics (RL) activities. Many companies have considered RL as a strategic ...
Storytelling and strategy: An examination of the role of stories in strategy communication

Taylor, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis explores the use of stories in strategy communication. Based on the premise that stories are powerful communication tools, and that communication is integral to strategy, the extent to which stories are used ...
Strategising for Resilience

Collins, Simon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The term “resilience” is used to describe aspects of businesses that are able to withstand potentially destructive changes in the commercial environment in which they operate. Few studies have investigated the ability that ...
Surfacing some implications of the sharing economy: A New Zealand perspective

Dunn, Caleb (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis highlights major influences and effects that the sharing economy appears to be having on New Zealand businesses. The sharing economy is “a socio-economic ecosystem built around the sharing of human and physical ...