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The Mediating Role of Boundary Flexibility in the Workload and Work Fatigue Relationship among New Zealand-Based Midwives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This dissertation adopts an organisational behavioural (OB) and management approach to explore the effects of boundary flexibility on role demands and personal wellbeing among New Zealand (NZ) midwives. The paper reviews ... -
Exploratory Research on the Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction of Chinese Guests Towards Serviced Apartments in Auckland, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction have always been a topic of academic research, and it has increasingly been paid more attention because it directly affected customer experiences (Lu et al., 2015). Previous studies ... -
Travelling With Hanfu: A Social Media Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Travelling for Artistic Photographs
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Travelling with Hanfu is a new form of travel that has become popular among young people in contemporary China in recent years. Such travellers dress up in Hanfu (the traditional costume of the Han people) to visit tourist ... -
Service Design to Assist Caregivers of Adults With Learning Disabilities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This project investigated a design solution to assist the caregivers of adults with learning disabilities (McRae et al.) in Thailand. The problems associated with LDs are increasing annually. The bulk of primary caregivers ... -
Satisfaction Factors of Tourists Staying in Queenstown’s Airbnbs: An Exploratory Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Because satisfying customers is a persistent goal of the hospitality industry, many studies have aimed to determine the key factors of guest satisfaction. More recently, with the emergence of the sharing economy, Airbnb ... -
Digital Technologies and the Senior Geography Classroom: Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact on Teaching and Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)With the dawn of the 21st century, there was a great expectation that a digital revolution would take place and transform the classroom. This technological change would see students take control of their learning and the ... -
Investigating Consumer’s Fear of Missing Out and Social Media Fatigue: An Extended Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)The information age has brought about the emergence of many digital tools. One of the tools is social media network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, that have increasingly gained popularity worldwide. A ... -
Impact of Conversational Agents on Customer Service Employees
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Many organisations are implementing conversational agents (CAs) such as chatbots and virtual assistants to perform customer service functions due to the technology’s cost-effectiveness and ease of use for customers. The ... -
Does Research Help Inform a Healthcare Organisation’s Purpose? A Perspective of One New Zealand District Health Board
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Background: The body of work set out to answer the question “does research overall help to inform a healthcare organisation’s purpose?” To align health care research activity to a District Health Board (DHB) organisational ... -
Ensemble Classifier Modelling for Dealing with Missing Values
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)An ensemble classifier method for life critical data classification is considered one of the most capable classifiers where data suffers from missing values. The execution of a decision tree classifier can be expanded by ... -
Upholding the Dangal (Dignity) of Biracial (Haphap) Children in Angeles City, Philippines
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)There is some literature on the situation of Filipino children relative to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the Philippines. However, there is a scarcity of research ... -
Authenticity of Yum Cha in Auckland, New Zealand, As Compared With Guangzhou, China, the Country of Origin
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Food authenticity has become an important topic in recent years. Especially when a food is found far from the place of origin, its authenticity is doubted and argued over. Yum cha is the art of drinking Chinese tea and ... -
Lost in Wonderland: Policy, Education and Māori Realities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The history of Māori society and education shows how Māori identity and culture have not remained static, but have been subject to ongoing processes of change. Despite many decades of policy initiatives, Māori underachievement ... -
A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Tū Tahanga, a Kaupapa Māori Adapted Violence Prevention Programme, in a Forensic Mental Health Inpatient Unit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Introduction: Forensic mental health services are tasked with rehabilitating service users with mental illness and offending behaviour. Service users are provided with a range of interventions that target mental illness ... -
Pacific Women, Beauty and Race: The Communication of Beauty Ideals and the Experiences of Pacific Women in Contemporary Society
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Contemporary notions of beauty embedded in social ideals and values, can have a significant influence on the lived experiences of women. From social class to skin colour and ethnicity, women’s bodies have been largely ... -
The Perceived Impact on Wellbeing After Health and Wellness Coaching - a Qualitative Evaluation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Health and wellness coaching (HWC) is an evidence-based intervention to help individuals gain the knowledge and skills to undertake health-related behaviour change in their lives. The Primary Prevention of Stroke in the ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Attitudes Towards Menstrual Cycle in Middle-Eastern and Western Societies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This thesis compared attitudes to the menstrual cycle held by men and women in New Zealand, as representative of Western, modern and secular countries and Iranians, as representative of Eastern, developing and religious ... -
Becoming Known As Whole Persons in Clinical Encounter
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This study sought to shed light on the unique essence of the clinical encounter in a biomedical context when whaiora (those seeking wellness) and healthcare students are invited to a whole person mindbody encounter (wpmbe). ... -
The Iran-US Nuclear Standoff in American Newspaper Opinion Pieces: A Study in Critical Discourse, Classical Rhetoric and Securitisation Theory
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Achievement of the 2015 nuclear agreement deal between Iran and the world powers was officially praised as a remarkable victory in the history of diplomacy by most of the world. However, elites’ reactions to it within Iran ... -
Parametric Analysis of Bioimpedance Spectroscopy Measurement Data for a Simulated Human Limb
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Bioelectrical impedance analysis or bioimpedance analysis (BIA) is a non-invasive procedure originating in the early 1930s and 1940s that involves the measurement of the electrical impedance of a region of tissue. Bioimpedance ...