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The employment of Virtual Reality in tourism-oriented online communication: an economics of information perspective
Herstell, Jan - 2008
rasantes Wachstum erfahren und dazu geführt, dass im Bereich des internetbasierten Tourismus eine besonders ausgeprägte … Virtual Reality (VR) im Tourismus die Ausnahme und wird damit nicht gezielt genutzt, um Informationen dreidimensional und … transformieren und die nachfragerseitige Bedeutung der Vertrauenseigenschaften mindern kann. Somit kann in der im Tourismus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467439
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Tourism, Climate Change and the Coastal Zone
Hamilton, Jacqueline Margaret - 2005
pattern of tourism demand. Despite the cultural and economic importance of tourism and its overwhelming dependence on climatic … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449713
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The impact of HR practices, HR effectiveness and a 'strong HR system' on organisational outcomes: a stakeholder perspective
Guest, D.; Conway, N. - 2011
This paper explores the general hypothesis that effectiveness of human resource (HR) practices will help to explain the well-documented association between human resource management and performance. This paper adopts a stakeholder perspective, hypothesising that the ratings of HR effectiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476316
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HR business partner competency models: re-contextualising effectiveness
Caldwell, Raymond - 2008
The rise of 'HR business partnering' over the last decade has led to an enormous growth in HR competency models. Competencies are believed to provide a mechanism for reinventing traditional HR roles and improving the effectiveness of HR professionals as business partners. But are they effective?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476319
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Organizational support, individual attributes, and the practice of career self-management behavior
Sturges, J.; Conway, Neil; Liefooghe, Andreas - 2010
This article reports the findings of a study, conducted in a UK new media company, that investigated direct and interactive relationships between perceived organizational support (POS), leader—member exchange (LMX), gender, locus of control, and practice of career self-management behaviors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476320
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Metrics: HRM's holy grail? a New Zealand case study
Tootell, B.; Blackler, M.; Toulson, P.; Dewe, P. - 2009
What gets measured in business is noticed and acted on. The importance of human resource management (HRM) to be noticed as a vital key to business success has been argued profusely by the HRM profession over the last three decades. While the importance of human resource (HR) measurement is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476321
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Do consensus meetings undermine the validity of assessment centres?
Dewberry, Chris; Jordan, Deborah - 2006
In this study the effects of latent-informal processes operating in assessment centre consensus meetings is investigated with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Non-participative observation is carried out in several consensus meetings, and auditory recordings made in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476327
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Impact of Tangible or Intangible incentives on job satisfaction among workers
Ali, Syeda Ayat-e-Zainab; Afridi, Maryam; Shafi, Marrium; … - 2016
Incentives either tangible or intangible are the most important or convenient resources that became the basis of workers satisfaction with their jobs. The study attempts to explore the relationship between tangible or intangible incentives and job satisfaction among workers. To achieve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556218
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Consumer-based brand equity for Australia as a long haul tourism destination in an emerging market
Pike, Steven D.; Bianchi, Constanza; Kerr, Gayle F.; … - 2010
Purpose: Although the branding literature emerged during the 1940s, research relating to tourism destination branding … tourists in Chile, which reflects the lower priority the South American market has been given by the national tourism office …-branding literature by being one of the first to test the efficacy of a model of consumer-based brand equity for a tourism destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483521
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Destination brand equity among the host community : a potential source of comparative advantage for DMOs
Pike, Steven; Scott, Noel - 2009
equity (CBBE) for a destination, from the perspective of residents as active participants of local tourism. It is proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483559