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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"650 Management & auxiliary services"”.
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Resilience and recovery of creative SMEs: insights from Nigeria
The creative industry greatly aids innovation, cultural advancement, and global economic growth. Particularly in sub-sectors such as cinema, music, fashion, and digital media, creative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital to these contributions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic …
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The mediating effect of trust in supervisor and loyalty to supervisor between superior-subordinate Guanxi and OCB in the People's Rebublic of China
… and negative aspects, including impression management and organisational injustice.
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Management of logistics service providers: a situational approach
… has become more important. In other words, the management approach and the resulting cooperation approach with the logistics service provider have become important influencing factors in a company's success. This dissertation identifies and develops a managerial situational approach to the …
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Elements of design that affect aesthetic evaluation
Point-of-Purchase (POP) displays are effective tools for increasing sales of a product. However, Consumer Psychology and marketing literature contains little theoretical development in the area of POP-displays and its communicative effects. Consequently the aim of this thesis was to explore the …
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The prediction and understanding of consumer purchase decisions: applying the Fishbein model to certain marketing issues
In the fields of social psychology Martin Fishbein has developed the 'theory of reasoned action'. A literature search was undertaken in both social psychology and marketing which revealed that the theory has been widely tested in social psychology, but to a much lesser extent in its marketing …
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Using social marketing strategy to promote recycling among university students in a Thai university
… findings with an array of relevant psychology, management and social marketing models and theories. By utilising the Facebook Page, 26 ambassador teams promoted and encouraged students and families to participate in recycling behaviour and compete against each other. The contestants were 30 …
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An exposé of the current state of CRM in the hotel industry
It has even been argued that CRM is one of the most important strategies that any organisation intending to stay in business must develop. Based on the fact that hotel companies have in evidence already started to embrace CRM, the aim of this thesis is to explore the state of CRM in the hotel …
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The impact of leadership on organizational commitment
This study examines the impact of transactional and transformational leadership on organizational commitment as well as the mediating role of organizational justice. In today's workplace, increasing the perception of fairness amongst employees has numerous organizational benefits. What constitutes …
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E-business framework design using an enhanced Web 2.0 technology
… activity processing time, and providing related services in a convenient and inexpensive way to their customers. However in this race, the e-business growth pendulum is only swinging one way, and it is easy to understand the reason for this by observing today's business market. Due to the current …
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Apparel clothing reference points for important shopping occasions and decision-making styles of Greek college students
The current study conceptualized the categories of consumer referents, concerning how they form their consumption preferences by elaborating reference points, in order to be better informed on items for a measurement scale. In addition the current study conceptualized the categories of shopping …
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Establishing and maintaining employee motivation from recruitment through Induction, transition and retirement
… employees. The third chapter investigates the management of employee expectations following a career transition. A case study of two employees from an international Human Resources consultancy illustrates how a breakdown in the psychological contract can lead to attrition, with implications for …
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Employee status and collectivism: a study of managerial and professional trade unionism
This research examines the managerial and professional status of members of three case-study unions: Nautilus International, Prospect and the Transport and Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA). It considers the extent to which members' behaviour in these unions constitutes a shift away from the …
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The role of behavioural change theory in social marketing interventions on HIV/AIDS in Ghana
In Ghana, data on HIV prevalence in the ten regions indicates that, the country has failed to realise a consistent decline of HIV new infections. This has resulted in Government spending huge sums of money on HIV/AIDS-related activities instead of the other productive sectors of the economy. …
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An agent-based adaptive join algorithm for building data warehouses
Making better business decisions in an efficient way is the key to succeeding in today's competitive world. Organisations seeking to improve their decision-making process can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume and complexity of data available from their various operational information systems. Many …
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Ethically challenging situations in UK based independent human resource consultancies: a study into professional practice by a practioner researcher identifying what challenges are faced, how they are dealt with and including recommendations for improving practice
This study examines ethically challenging situations in independent human resource consultancy practice in the UK. The study identifies the issues consultants face and how they are resolving them. The analysis of consultant responses in the context of the literature on ethics leads to a series of …
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Total quality programmes within the large UK privatised organisations between 1983-1997
… to elicit the concepts underlying the Deming Management Method. They developed a set of seven concepts defined as the building blocks of their proposed theory of quality management. They suggest that process management practices contribute to continuous improvement of processes, products and …
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Modelling and comparing OECD countries' consumer behaviour
This thesis seeks to model and compare OECD countries' consumer behaviour. We build REPIHIRELCH and ECM formulations using long time-series based solely upon private sector measures of income for twenty OECD countries. No previous study features such a broad coverage of private sector data and …
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What do Syrian managers know about self-directed learning?
… fields of SDL, self-directed learners, learning, management learning, culture and organisational factors, this research investigated the influence of these topics on the Syrian managers’ SDL. The research applied a qualitative interpretive approach involving twenty interviews with Syrian managers …
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Reassessing strategic pay : testing relationships between organisational contingencies, pay and HR performance outcomes
… of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Reward Management Survey in 2012. Results support hypothesised associations between a) pay selection and both business strategy and workforce employment groups; and b)specific pay practice approaches and HR outcomes. There is limited support however for …
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A business model architecture framework (BMAF) for the architecting of business to business electronic commerce
Business to Business Electronic Commerce (B2B EC) has over 20 years experienced unprecedented growth in practice. Practice has generated many theories, models, and frameworks. The extensive literature review curried out during this research a) has investigated the origins, the terms and the …
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