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Publication date: 8 July 2014

Recession: a chance for hospitality SMEs?

Stefanos Nachmias, Brendan Paddison and Chris Mortimer

The research takes a comprehensive evaluation of hospitality students’ perceptions towards small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) employment and explores whether the…

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Purpose

The research takes a comprehensive evaluation of hospitality students’ perceptions towards small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) employment and explores whether the current recession and labour market changes influence hospitality students career-related decisions. Such exploration would provide vital information as to how the new economic environment has modified the nature and context of hospitality students perceptions towards SMEs. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

The research focuses on a constructionist philosophy in order to interpret how hospitality students construct of career choice. The qualitative methodology adopts semi-structured interviews in order to explore the socially constructed views of hospitality students’ perception of SMEs employment.

Findings

In spite of recessional challenges which particularly affect the graduate labour market, the research confirms the original academic arguments that socially constructed barriers and influencing factors do not highlight SMEs as an attractive first employment destination.

Practical implications

This research recognises the need to reconsider the curriculum for hospitality students to embed the notion of SMEs as a possible career choice.

Social implications

Socially SMEs have not either historically or in the present day been seen as providing adequate resources for graduates entering the world of work. Such an implication has a considerably impact upon the supply and demand side of SMEs graduate labour market.

Originality/value

The economic downturn now poses a real challenge for new graduates as it is difficult to predict and discuss future labour market issues and trends. The research allows key stakeholders in graduate employment to understand the effects of the economic environment to graduate SMEs perceptions and take measures in improving SMEs-graduate employment in hospitality.

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Education + Training, vol. 56 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-04-2013-0056
ISSN: 0040-0912

Keywords

  • Hospitality
  • SMEs
  • Recession
  • Graduate employment
  • Career perception

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Publication date: 19 September 2016

Reflections from EDI Conference: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in times of austerity

Andri Georgiadou

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research presented at the 2016 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research presented at the 2016 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Design/methodology/approach

The report is based on six papers, of interest to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion readers, which were selected from the proceedings and presentations made at the conference. The papers vary in terms of research design, methodology and approach. There was a mix of conceptual/review papers and empirical studies, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Findings

The papers presented new directions on equality, diversity and inclusion research. Findings from exploratory papers indicated the need to develop an understanding of the notion of solidarity and the divisive and inclusive elements of the enactment of solidarity. Empirical studies reveal that women and people from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be excluded and marginalized, whereas there is a call for greater consideration of age in the social, economic, political and market arenas.

Originality/value

This report integrates unique insights on “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Human Rights in Times of Austerity”, as these were presented and discussed at the EDI 2016 Conference.

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 35 no. 7/8
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-09-2016-0077
ISSN: 2040-7149

Keywords

  • Equality
  • Symbolic violence
  • Solidarity
  • Hidden inequalities

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Publication date: 1 February 2016

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Personnel Review, vol. 45 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-02-2016-301
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 6 February 2017

Personnel reviewers 2016

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Personnel Review, vol. 46 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-02-2017-331
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 30 September 2014

Audit quality of outsourced information technology controls

Tatiana Mazza, Stefano Azzali and Luca Fornaciari

This paper aims to test the positive relationship between audit quality (AQ) of outsourced information technology controls (ITC) and information technology audit quality…

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Purpose

This paper aims to test the positive relationship between audit quality (AQ) of outsourced information technology controls (ITC) and information technology audit quality (ITAQ).

Design/methodology/approach

Factor analysis, ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions and simulations.

Findings

Scoping and planning phases of the audit cycle account for about 69 per cent of ITAQ. The AQ of outsourced ITC is strongly and directly related to ITAQ. Improvement of AQ of outsourced ITC may be achieved through evaluation of control design and operating effectiveness by service auditor as well as direct evaluation by the client in service provider location.

Research limitations/implications

Sample size and input items in factor analysis.

Practical implications

Companies and auditors could improve ITAQ through a better organization of the scoping and planning activities; they could also improve the AQ of outsourced ITC using direct evaluation in the service provider location supplemented with service auditor reports. Regulators could refine or change laws and frameworks to take into account the factors of ITAQ and the methodology of evaluation of outsourced ITC.

Originality/value

Private data collected by questionnaire. The measures of ITAQ and the OLS model could be tested in future research, in countries with different frameworks and regulations related to AQ, different weight of outsourced information technology and other characteristics related to clients, service providers and service auditors.

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Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 29 no. 9
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MAJ-10-2013-0956
ISSN: 0268-6902

Keywords

  • Information technology
  • Outsourcing
  • Internal controls
  • Audit quality
  • Financial reporting
  • M420

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Publication date: 3 June 2008

Sense of community in online courses and students with disabilities: Development of a questionnaire for university students

Vittore Perrucci, Giulia Balboni and Stefano Cacciamani

The sense of community in online courses may contribute to the success and the satisfaction of all the students and the integration of the students with disabilities…

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The sense of community in online courses may contribute to the success and the satisfaction of all the students and the integration of the students with disabilities. Therefore, a valid scale to assess sense of community must be used. For this purpose, a questionnaire for the evaluation of all the dimensions of the MacMillan and Chavis (1986) sense of community model, the main theoretical reference in the field, is being developed for use with students of university online courses. The usefulness of such a questionnaire for the planning of interventions to promote the feeling of being a member of a group in online courses is discussed.

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Personnel Preparation
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-004X(08)00008-6
ISBN: 978-1-59749-274-4

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