Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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How Human Resource Management (HRM) Is Enacted in the Restaurant Industry: An Exploratory Study of Managerial Mental Models HR Partnerships and Enacted Human Resource Practice in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The New Zealand hospitality industry opens the areas of exploring the human resource management (HRM) mental models (MM) in restaurants connected to HRM practices in the companies. HRM can be identified as a vital aspect ... -
How is satiety affected when consuming food while working on a computer?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)More people working at offices are choosing to eat meals at their desks making “desktop dining” an increasingly common phenomenon. There has been substantial research undertaken on the role distraction and stress on people’s ... -
How New Zealand universities present themselves to the public: an analysis of communication strategies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This thesis investigates how the eight state-funded New Zealand universities present themselves in the prospectuses they publish yearly. The background for this research is the fact that the universities now have to compete ... -
How occupational therapists engage adult clients with cognitive impairments in assessments
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This qualitative descriptive study explored how nine occupational therapists working in physical and mental health settings, engage adult clients with cognitive impairments in assessments. The multi-disciplinary literature ... -
How occupational therapists in Aotearoa/New Zealand have taken up ideas in the international occupational therapy literature
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Occupational therapy literature is full of ideas and information to guide occupational therapists in how to practice and what to think about, with new ideas being layered on top of old. This exploratory study looked at how ... -
How online reviews are read
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Online reviews, a form of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication, have fast become a relied on source of information. It is for this reason we need to further understand how it is consumers read this information; ... -
How Perceived Institutional Forces Impact ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Implementers When Assimilating an ERP Solution in a Public Sector Organisation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This research aimed to explore how perceived institutional forces impact ERP implementers when assimilating an ERP solution in a public sector organisation in New Zealand. A public sector organisational setting was ... -
How Public Understandings of Psychotherapy Are Influenced by Film and Television Portrayals of Psychotherapists and Some of the Implications for Clinical Practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This dissertation addresses the question: “How are public understandings of psychotherapy influenced by film and television portrayals of psychotherapists and what are some of the implications for clinical practice?” ... -
How Safe Are You? Themes, Concerns and Metaphor of Jewish Second-generation Literature in the Novel "To Life"
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)The novel To Life concerns the inheritance of psychic trauma by the child of a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, and is part of the genre of second-generation literature. In this exegesis I will examine the genre’s frames ... -
How the Surface Morphology of Electron Beam Melted Additive Manufactured Grade 5 Titanium Affects Adhesive Bonding Shear Strength
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Electron Beam Melting (EBM) is a powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) process, capable of easily manufacturing complex shapes out of strong materials, such as Grade 5 titanium. One way to utilise this process ... -
How to Win Fans and Influence People: The Dynamic Between Social Media Influencers and Those They Influence
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)With the rise of social media in the past decade there has been very little documentation or research that considers the advent of social media opinion leaders, or influencers, and their relationship with their followers ... -
How Youth Programme Teachers’ Learn to Implement Pasifika Values in Their Teaching
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This study focusses on six Youth Guarantee (YG) teachers and their understanding of Pasifika values in their teaching practices. Pasifika students’ achievement rates remain lower than New Zealand European and Asian students. ... -
HR Devolution: rhetoric or reality?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Devolution of HR responsibilities from HR to line managers is a key theme in the contemporary HR literature and research review suggests that increasingly organizations are devolving their HR functions to line managers. ... -
HRM in the A-League: an interpretive study investigating recruitment and retention practices in the 'Global Game'
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Professional sports teams according to Madura (1982) possess very similar Human Resource Management (HRM) characteristics to those on display in many other business entities, especially those located in the small-and-medium-sized ... -
Http://www.100types.com: developing a computer-mediated model for the teaching of type design history
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This project's purpose is to relocate traditional paper-based library content about typographic history to a website, curated as a digital museum. The project process is defined as three distinct parts: 1. Scholarship and ... -
Human Facial Emotion Recognition From Digital Images Using Deep Learning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In this thesis, our aim is to investigate the best-performing methods and algorithms of facial emotion recognition (FER) based on the seven classes of human facial expressions of emotion: Neutral, scared, angry, disgusted, ... -
A Human Rights Approach to Consumer Safety and Well-being: The Balance Between Deterring Violations of Consumer Rights and Promoting Free Trade
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)As the global demand for free trade continues to expand, the matter of consumer safety and well-being must no longer be regarded as a ‘luxury’ but to be essential to maintain human dignity. Since an overwhelming majority ... -
Hybrid Mythology and Personal Nostalgia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)I aim to produce a short-animated film consisting of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional components. The narrative will be based on hybrid myths, fables, and urban legends that I discovered as a child. Considering ... -
Hydrolysis-driven Buoyancy Propulsion System for Submersibles
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)The research presented herein intends to improve the flexibility of underwater gliders with the development of a novel propulsion system. The proposed Chemical Buoyancy Drive is indicated to yield up to 20 times the amount ... -
Hyphenated living: between longing and belonging, an exposition of displacement as liminality in the transnational condition
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)This thesis explores a complex concept of home with respect to issues of belonging and displacement from both a personal and transnational1 perspective, which deals with the here in New Zealand and there in the Netherlands. ...