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Making Vegetables Desirable: Improving the Eating Habits of Wales’ Younger Generation
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)Existing literature exposes poor eating habits and low vegetable consumption as rife amongst adolescents. Increased autonomy in relation to decision-making around food often follows the onset of secondary school education. ... -
The Effect Of Quality Of Higher Education System On The Compatibility Between The Skills Of Graduates And The Requirements Of The Labour Market In Egypt
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)Research to date has addressed that there is incompatibility (gap) between the skills of university graduates and the labour market requirements in Egypt. The factors that affect this gap, as well as HOW to bridge the gap, ... -
A Critical Conceptualisation of Leadership and Organisational Change: The Case of Royal Jordanian Airline
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)This present thesis is based on the critical conceptualisation of leadership and organisational change. Leadership is an action of the leading group of the people and company. It is a practical skill and research area that ... -
Evaluation of the impact of the demutualization process on stock exchange value
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)Since the business climate of stock exchanges is facing many challenges due to many turbulent changes, traditional stock exchanges are no longer able to keep up with these changes as they lack the required ... -
Financial Risk and Financial Performance of Banks in Egypt
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)This research focuses on the two main dimensions of bank performance; profitability and risk using a sample of the listed banks in Egypt. The lack of this type of research in Egypt is the main motive for this thesis, ... -
Consumer Acceptance of Mobile Payment Services in Nigeria: A customised Unified Theory of Acceptance & Use Technology (UTAUT) model
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)Innovations in technology continue to influence the daily routines of consumers. In the case of mobile devices, their multifunctionality transforms opportunities for consumers, for instance by conducting mobile payments. ... -
Evaluation of the Vocational Training System in Qatar’s Public Sector
(2020)The concept of policing a state has had to undergo a change of mindset due to the global nature of today’s world. There was anecdotal evidence that the training was outdated and did not take into account the cross-cultural ... -
A Critique of Trading Standards in Wales – Post-devolution Developments and Prognosis
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)This thesis investigates and critically evaluates Trading Standards (TS) delivery in Wales. TS enforces law to promote fair trading. It is delivered through local government in Great Britain. Successful enforcement protects ... -
Welsh-language Scaffolding: A Strategy for Undergraduate Teaching in Cardiff School of Management
(2020)Cardiff Metropolitan University is a post-1992 university which offers undergraduate degree programmes wherein students can elect to study Welsh-medium modules. Focussing on the BA (Hons) Business and Management programme, ... -
A critical application of the ‘teaching games for understanding’ approach in the coaching context: An action research study
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)The innovative nature of the ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (TGfU) approach (Thorpe, Bunker & Almond, 1986) has led to considerable interest from researchers and practitioners (e.g., MacPhail et al., 2008). Consequently, ... -
A comparative case study analysis of the United Kingdom and Uganda’s New Car Market
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)Integrated Marketing communications (IMC) as an emerging concept in the marketing discipline has lasted for approximately the last 30 years has achieved a tremendous welcome from both practitioners and scholars. Within ... -
Social Networking Sites and the Edu-Social Experience in Higher Education Institutions
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2018)Social Networking Sites are becoming an integral part of modern educational activities. Therefore, this research aims to comprehensively investigate how the usage of SNSs affects the educational and social experience of ... -
The Role of Service Quality in Developing the Medical Tourism Sector in an Arabic Context: the Qatari Perspective
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)Medical tourism is a growing niche market within the global tourism sector which has expanded significantly over the last two decades. Since the early 2000s, the Qatari Government has been proactively trying to move away ... -
The effective use of social media in crime detection and prevention: The promotion of public trust in the U.A.E police- the case of the Abu Dhabi police
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)The social media provided police agencies with many worth capabilities to promote their crime control activities, which grounded in gaining the trust of the citizens. The literature review unearthed a lack of empirical ... -
Improving Quality of Life after Spinal Cord Injury: development of an intervention and feasibility study
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)The aims of the research was to identify (1) coping strategies that people with SCI use, (2) factors that impact on quality of life (QoL), (3) people’s attitudes towards peer support groups, (4 and 5) develop and evaluate ... -
Capturing Research Value in Commercial Design Outputs
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)Effective university-industry collaboration has become a major focus for governments in recent years. Universities are increasingly expected to play a greater role in the innovation system and evidence their contribution ... -
An interdisciplinary examination of stress and injury occurrence in athletes
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)This thesis examined the multifaceted relationship between stress and sports injury. Study 1 explored the relationships between psychological sources of stress (major life events and personality characteristics) and ... -
Relationship between Internal Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Shareholder Value in the Banking Sector in Bangladesh: The Mediating Effect of Non-Equity Stakeholders
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2020)Contemporary corporate governance models, namely the shareholder and stakeholder models, offer different advice on how best to manage and maximise the interests of the shareholders in a firm. While the shareholder model ... -
An Action Research Study Examining Teachers’ and Learners’ Beliefs regarding Oral Corrective Feedback: Exploring the Relation between Training and Teachers’ Provision of Oral Corrective Feedback in the Language Classroom
(2019)In the language classroom, the majority of learners regard the teacher as the principal source of knowledge. Learners rely on their teachers to provide them with the target language norms and to deal ... -
A Study Investigating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Financial Performance of Retail Industry in the UK
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2019)The study explored the empirical links between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance of four retail companies (Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Next and Primark) in the UK from 2006-2014. Prior studies ...
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