Research Commons

Research Commons is an open access digital repository promoting and preserving the scholarly outputs of researchers at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

The repository contains the research of University of Waikato staff as well as Higher and Masters Degree theses deposited with The University of Waikato Library since 2006.

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Restructuring and hospital care: Sub-national trends, differentials, and their impacts; New Zealand from 1981

Pool, Ian; Baxendine, Sandra; Cheung, Jit; Coombs, Ngaire; Jackson, Gary; Dharmalingam, Arunachalam; Katzenellenbogen, Judith M.; Sceats, Janet E.; Cooper, Jenine (Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2009)

An analysis of the "nation's health" is the central concern of this study. Its genesis was a detailed, technical, time-series research on regional and ethnic differentials in health in New Zealand. But as this work progressed ...
Study Intention Survey 2010: Research Report May 2011

Foroutan, Yaghoob; Jackson, Natalie; Hutt, Rachael; Weal, Jennifer (National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA), 2011)

The Secondary School Study Intentions Survey is now in its seventh year. The main objectives of this research are to identify secondary school students’ choice of programme, the level of qualification that students aspire ...
Religious institutions as sites of learning for older adults

Findsen, Brian (Wiley, 2012)

Religious institutions are not often perceived as sites of learning for older adults. This chapter analyzes religious institutions and the institutionalized church as locations for holistic adult learning in both spiritual ...
Interunion conflict in a non-exclusive, non-majority representation regime: New Zealand lessons for union revival in the United States

Harcourt, Mark; Lam, Helen (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012)

A “new” interpretation of Section 7 in the National Labor Relations Act could serve as the basis of union renewal, in enabling and supporting non-majority, non-exclusive representation as an alternative to the difficulties ...
Clinical Governance, Performance Appraisal and Interactional and Procedural Fairness at a New Zealand Public Hospital

Clarke, Carol; Harcourt, Mark; Flynn, Matthew (Springer, 2012)

This paper explores the conduct of performance appraisals of nurses in a New Zealand hospital, and how fairness is perceived in such appraisals. In the health sector, performance appraisals of medical staff play a key role ...