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Author : Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox
School/Work Place : Bond University, Australia (Elizabeth Roberts), Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (David Williamson), Southern Cross University, Australia (Carmen Cox)
Contact : eroberts@bond.edu.au
Year : 2008

The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an analysis of qualitative data gleaned from exit interviews with 166 hotel employees, structured interviews with key management informants, and content analysis of written human resource policies pertaining to work/life balance.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
6 Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o... file 5137 Oct 13, 2013

Global economic and political change has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration flows resulting in unprecedented transformation in the form and condition of impacted communities (Woods, 2006). This increase in human migration to ar...

Author: Alison M. Gill 

Year: 2008 

5 Think Tank VIII A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind... file 4891 Oct 13, 2013

The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green b...

Author: Claudia Jurowski 

Year: 2008 

4 Think Tank VIII Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: Th... file 4889 Oct 13, 2013

As an international tourism destination, Turkey serves mostly European tourist markets due to her closeness to European markets. Turkey and Europe has a long shared history of relationships. However, Turkey and Turkish people have a rather b...

Author: Yasin Boylu, Asli D. A. Tasci & William C. Gartner 

Year: 2008 

3 Think Tank VIII Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism ... file 4883 Oct 13, 2013

‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the sustainability of their offer. One can henc...

Author: Maud Tixier 

Year: 2008 

» Think Tank VIII Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H... file 4462 Oct 13, 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an anal...

Author: Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox 

Year: 2008 

1 Think Tank VIII Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of... file 3651 Oct 13, 2013

Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att...

Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2008 

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