Browsing Masters Dissertations by Title
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Perceptions of the role that family friendly policies should play within the personal financial services market in Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The dissertation is an exploratory insight into the views of those connected with the use of family friendly policies within the Personal Financial Services Market in Ireland. The topic of Family Friendly Policies incorporates ... -
Performance management systems help to reconcile the contradictions encountered by customer service representatives and influence the level of job satisfaction in the call centre industry
(Dublin Business School, 2007)This research project is an investigation into the effect a performance management system has on reconciling the contradictions met by call centre operatives and in resulting levels of job satisfaction. The study's aims ... -
Performance measurement and job satisfaction in call centres
(Dublin Business School, 2013)Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of performance measurement in call centres on employees’ job satisfaction. The objectives are to identify those measurements, and if they are in excess, ... -
The Performance of the Farm Relief Services Co-operative Structure: A Manager's Perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2001)The object of this dissertation is to carry out an examination of the Farm Relief Services Co-operative (FRS), which has now reached a pivotal stage in its lifecycle. The agricultural landscape has changed considerably ... -
Personal versus electronic word-of-mouth – an insight based on cognitive and affective factors of word-of-mouth in the area of consumer electronics
(Dublin Business School, 2015)The power of Word-of-Mouth (WOM) has long been documented in the literature, indeed WOM is believed to be the most influential sources of information (Barreto, 2013; Kimmel, 2013; Allsop, Bassett and Hoskins, 2007; Solomon ... -
The perspective of the person and the counselling relationship in the humanistic tradition
(Dublin Business School, 2011)The Humanistic tradition in counselling and psychotherapy has its roots in a broader philosophical tradition most particularly in Existentialism. The writings of Kierkegaard and Heidegger and the perspective of the person ... -
Perspectives on ethics : profit and non-profit business leaders in Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2013)As ethical concern has reached a 30 year high among future business leaders (Drover, et al., 2012), a focus on those who lead current businesses could prove to be imperative to furthering our understanding of business ... -
Pervasive, evasive, desire
(Dublin Business School, 2002)The impetus for this paper was a question, which arose continuously while working therapeutically with children in the clinical setting; whose desire is operating particularly when adults bring children to see a psychotherapist? ... -
Playing in key: A psychotherapeutic investigation of the parallels between improvised music and the therapeutic process
(Dublin Business School, 2019)In the moment of its creation, improvised music provides an insight to into the composers state of mind and being. While improvising with another, the composer brings what has already been learned and is afforded a space ... -
Political correctness, emotion regulation strategies and tolerance for disagreement : is there a missing link?
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The connection between concern for politically correct speech, tolerance for disagreement and two emotion regulation strategies was explored using a correlational study, with mixed methods. Participants were drawn from the ... -
Popularity of brand communities among Generation Y
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the popularity of brand communities among Generation Y. The researcher firstly deeply defines, through a critical literature review, the main concepts of this dissertation ... -
Post purchase cognitive dissonance in young European fashion clothing consumers.
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The aim of the research is to find out whether young European youngsters in the age group 18-27 years working in a multinational company in Dublin, experience cognitive dissonance after purchase of fashion clothing like ... -
Post-merger integration : achieving success in m & a
(Dublin Business School, 2013)The main purpose of this study is to better understand how the post merger integration contributes to a successful merger or acquisition transaction. This study attempts to find out why the numbers of failures in M&A are ... -
Potential human biases in the Irish banking structure : weighing risks versus incentives
(Dublin Business School, 2014)This dissertation is about the searching for potential human biases in the Irish banking sector. It tries to find out how individual decision makers deal with risk versus incentives in their day to day decision making. ... -
The potential of Belbin's approach to team roles to promote value-added in businesses trading internationally from an increasingly 'westernised' Chinese marketplace
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the potential of Dr. R. Meredith Belbin's team roles concept to facilitate the achievement of value-added in businesses trading internationally from an increasingly ... -
The potential of factoring as part of the working capital management. How far can German SME´s improve their financial management by the usage of factoring?
(Dublin Business School, 2015)The consequences of the new bank regulation law Basel III will force German small and medium-sized enterprises to think about alternative forms of finance. In order to finance their business activities and to ensure a ... -
The potential of technological innovation to reduce fraud and increase trust in the Indian banking system
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Everyone deposits their hard earned money with the banks with a hope that they can withdraw their own money on demand. Because of the technological advancement, alternative channels like online banking, mobile banking, ATM ... -
Predicting popularity rating of your video
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Searching and watching videos on YouTube has become a part of our daily lives. By understanding the popularity of online videos and predicting the popularity of future videos is of great importance to organizations as well ... -
Preventing substance use and misuse among young adults
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The purpose of this research was to identify effective ways of eliminating or reducing addiction problems among young adults in Ireland through examining the effects of various risk factors, including cross-cultural ... -
Principle-based accounting and ethical judgement : an empirical study of accountant in Ireland
(2013)Principal-based accounting (PBA) requires accountant to use their own judgment instead of relying on ‘set of rules’ in preparing the financial statement. PBA which is debatable in term of its reliability is adopted by more ...