Browsing Masters Dissertations by Date
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Enhancing Readiness: an Exploration of the New Zealand Qualified Firefighter Programme
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Volunteers significantly contribute towards the operational capability of many organisations, including New Zealand's national fire service: Fire and Emergency New Zealand. Ensuring that volunteers are trained to attend ... -
Lived Experiences of Secondary School Technology Leaders With Flexible Learning Environments
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Flexible Learning Environments (FLEs) are a highly topical aspect of New Zealand education due to the work of the OECD (2015) and the prioritisation of the flexible spaces by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Much of ... -
Leadership Practices That Raise the Achievement of Māori Learners: an Examination of Practices
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This dissertation aims to inquire into the practices of educational leaders that seek to raise the achievement outcomes of Māori learners. Despite the efforts of policy makers and educators, Māori learners achieve below ... -
Role of Human Resources in Developing Organizational Trust in Public Sector Organizations of India
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Global economy has given rise to strategic human resource management (SHRM) in recent times. On account of this, the HRM systems have been identified as one of the crucial aspects of any organization since last few decades ... -
Single Mothers With Children Traveling: How Hard Can It Be?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This dissertation considers single parents, especially single mothers’ perspectives of a holiday trip with their children. Currently the tourist industry is looking at this phenomenon. The traditional nuclear family with ... -
Investigating the Associations of Problem Gambling With Mental Health Risk Factors Among Pacific Women Living in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Problem gambling is a severe mental health issue. Both New Zealand and International evidence agree that some groups within populations are more vulnerable to developing problematic gambling behaviours than others. Within ... -
Chinese Tourists’ Dining Preference in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Chinese tourism plays a significant role in the New Zealand market, with food choices being essential to Chinese culture and daily life. However, there appears little research on Chinese tourists’ dining preference, ... -
Travel Motivations and Behaviours of Mainland Chinese Students in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Due to the growth in numbers of international students studying abroad, the international education market has gradually increased globally. In New Zealand, international student tourism is the fourth largest export and ... -
How Have We Silenced the Everydayness of our Mental Dis-ease, in Mainstream Aotearoa New Zealand?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This study originated with a wondering about my childhood understanding of ‘normal’ and the ‘crazies’ in the mental hospitals down the road. I wondered about the silence between these apparent extremes. Between these two ... -
An Investigation into Sustainable Strategies of New Zealand and Chinese Tourism Businesses
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This study focuses on the sustainable strategies and practices of six selected tourism business case studies. With the rapid development of the global tourism industry, its negative impacts on tourist destinations have ... -
Workplace diversity disclosure by global companies: An exploration
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This research examines the extent, content and quality of workplace diversity disclosure (WDD) of global companies in their 2016 corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. A combination of content analysis and mini-case ... -
The connection between the infant's development of dimensionality and the adult's capacity to dream
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This study explores the origins of what is an underlying issue in the world today of the feeling of being constrained rather than vital, that is of being creative rather than conformist. The exploration is of how infants ... -
The Roles of LMX, Readiness for Change and Organizational Trust on Employee Behaviours: the Moderating Effects of Organizational Support Constructs
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Leader member exchange (LMX) is linked to a number of employee behaviours, although the influence within the context of change is unknown. The present study focuses on those experiencing change at work and tests both ... -
Paranoia and sexual orientation: A hermeneutic literature review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The relationship between paranoia and sexual orientation has a long and controversial history in psychoanalytic thinking. It has shifted from a position of early linkage and pathologisation, a subsequent rejection of that ... -
Understanding New Zealand's online marketing strategy from the perspective of the potential Chinese youth market - A case study of Dalian
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This research illustrates New Zealand’s online marketing strategy with respect to the potential Chinese youth market. The research aims to analyse the impact of New Zealand’s online strategies on the Chinese youth market’s ... -
Carry trade and its relationship with the stock market: Evidence from New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This study investigates the New Zealand dollar carry trade and its effect on the New Zealand stock market. Using a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model, the Granger causality relationship is from carry trade to stock market. ... -
Vulnerability and Capacities of International Students in the Face of Disasters in Auckland, New Zealand: a Qualitative Descriptive Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Background: Voluntary cross-national migration is a phenomenon worldwide, with an increased presence of international students (i.e., short-term migrants) residing and studying in host countries for limited periods of ... -
Better Silent than Silenced: Searching for the Words of Sibling Suicide Bereavement
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Commonly referred to as ‘the forgotten mourners’, little has been written about siblings bereaved by suicide. Grieving parents, children and spouses have been extensively studied by comparison, and this seems to mirror ... -
Kali, Shiva, and Psychotherapy: a Hermeneutic Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Myths are widely understood as having contributed significantly to the field of psychotherapy. This research examines psychoanalytic and other relevant literature that refers to the Vedic Hindu mythological couple, Kali ... -
Pictorial markers with hidden codes and their potential applications
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Most of the today’s Augmented Reality (AR) applications would use either black and white data markers or pictorial (template) markers to allocate, identify, and render the virtual information on the real scene. The data ...