Most of the income gap between NZ and Australia is due to low labour productivity in NZ's services sector
Reposted from NZ Institute of Economic Research (Inc), NZIER (Yang & Stephenson, 2011). “Differences in productivity explain much of the growing income gap between Australia and New Zealand. Good policy responses rely on understanding the sources of these differences. “Seventy percent of the aggregate gap in productivity between the two countries is due to under-performance […]
Cheating in academia is associated with future cheating in 'real life'
Graphic created by: Online Masters Degree Re-posted by Peter Mellalieu At Unitec, I follow these practices in my first-year teaching: Provide students with a template ‘scaffold’ that demonstrates good practice in writing a Formal Executive Report Distribute Unitec’s written policy explaining what constitutes academic dishonesty Verbally refer to the policy in class Utilise Turnitin.com for […]
Spring graduation – Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, September 2011
I love graduation! I love meeting my previous students. What are their plans? Where are they working? At graduation yesterday I found one of my Chinese students is returning to China to work in her father’s factory. The factory manufactures motorcycles and quad cycles for an international brand name. Later, she intends to work in […]
Portfolios for Strategic Marketing Communications 6374 – Bachelor of Business – The Beginning
See some of the beginnings of my (Dr Robert Davis) classes portfolios: by Rahul Singh – Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 01:44 PM http://wp.me/P1PeMI-4 by Diego Romero – Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 01:16 AM http://diromero.wordpress.com/ by Philipp Saemann – Sunday, 4 September 2011, 03:39 PM http://philippsaem.wordpress.com/ by Michel Reichardt – Sunday, 4 September 2011, 03:36 PM […]
American Academy of Advertising September 2011 Newsletter
I am pleased to share the September 2011 Newsletter of the American Academy of Advertising. In this issue: – Featured Teaching Column by Esther Thorson (Missouri School of Journalism) – Featured Research Column by Hairong Li (Michigan State University) – The President’s Column by Herb Rotfeld – Special Column by new editor, Anca Micu – […]
Letter from America #2: International conference for innovation in higher education
Letter from America #2: International conference for innovation in higher education Peter Mellalieu continues his journey through America reporting on the conference of the International Council for Innovation in Higher Education (ICIE), Miami, Florida, 31 July – 4 August, 2011. The video begins with a brief clip showing the wonderful features of the intercontinental Boeing […]
Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples interview on AMP business news on Maori Entrepreneurship
Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples interview on AMP business news on Maori Entrepreneurship.
L-e-tter from America: Episode 1: An expedition commences
A video letter from Peter Mellalieu, Department of Management & Marketing Over the period July-August 2011 I conducted an expedition to the United States of America. The focuss of my expedition was to study regional development approaches to innovation and entrepreneurship development, especially regarding the challenge of ‘greening the business’. Specifically, I explored how […]
DO CONSUMERS TRUST MOBILE SERVICE ADVERTISING?
DO CONSUMERS TRUST MOBILE SERVICE ADVERTISING? Robert Davis, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand rdavis@unitec.ac.nz Laszlo Sajtos, University of Auckland, New Zealand l.sajtos@auckland.ac.nz Ahsan Ali Chaudhri, Southern Cross University, Australia a.chaudhri@scu.edu.au ABSTRACT The mobile service channel has rapidly become an important way in which consumers ubiquitously communicate, encounter services and exchange information. Increasingly, marketers are […]
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