Perceptions of Job Satisfaction and Job Performance in the Timeshare Industry

ABSTRACT

This study examines timeshare sales representatives' perceptions with respect to demographic and job related factors. Three leading U.S. timeshare companies were solicited to participate in this research. They were asked to distribute surveys to their sales representatives. The data were analyzed through the use of analysis of variance and a post hocmultiple comparison procedure to understand the timeshare sales representative perceptions of job satisfaction and job performance. The results show that there are demographic influences on the perceptions of job satisfaction and job performance.     

新型城镇化效率演化趋势及其驱动机制研究

在分析新型城镇化发展动力机制的基础上,通过构建新型城镇化效率的综合评价指标体系,运用超效率DEA模型和灰色系统理论GM(1,N)模型对1998-2010年河南省新型城镇化效率发展演化趋势及其驱动因素进行研究。结果表明:河南省的新型城镇化效率虽然整体上呈现上升趋势,但2000-2009年处于停滞阶段,2010年才突破发展瓶颈;农业现代化和现代服务业是河南省新型城镇化效率的驱动力量,而传统工业化发展模式和市场化水平低下是河南省新型城镇化效率的制约因素。     

基于供应链金融的中小企业信用风险评价模型研究

在以往供应链金融视角下,中小企业信用风险评价多在孤立时间点上进行,这样会造成指标数据因某些原因而可能发生较大幅度变化,进而导致评价结果的错误,使银行在放贷过程中存在较大风险。本文以A企业为例,构建了基于时间维的供应链金融视角下中小企业信用风险评价模型。根据评价指标特点,该模型在各个时间点上选用微粒群算法和模糊综合评价方法对其进行信用风险评价,将各个时间点上的评价结果进行比较,分析企业的信用等级变化趋势,以期为银行放贷风险的降低提供有效途径。     

Mobile Technology: An Exploratory Study of Hotel Managers

Hospitality businesses provide a natural context for mobile technology, especially given the dynamic nature of the business, the size and complexity of many hotel operations, and the need to have managers visible and overseeing multiple areas of the business (and sometimes, multiple properties) concurrently. To explore the potential for mobile technology in hospitality business contexts, we surveyed 70 full-service hotel property managers. The survey was based upon two theoretical frameworks: technology adoption model and innovation diffusion theory. Specifically, this study addressed (a) hotel property managers’ intentions to use mobile technology at work, (b) factors influencing their intentions, (c) their suggestions for implementing mobile applications in different departments, and (d) demographic characteristics of those who are inclined to adopt certain types of mobile applications. This study identified the top opportunities for mobile applications and found adoption differences based upon the respondents’ demographics as well as the factors of perceived enjoyment and relative advantages as significant determinants of hotel property managers’ intentions to use mobile technology. This study concludes with recommendations for industry practitioners and suggestions for future research opportunities related to mobile technology adoption and usage in hospitality.     

Accurately Identifying and Comparing Sustainable Tourists,Nature-Based Tourists,and Ecotourists on the Basis of Their Environmental Concerns

The current study, using a confirmatory factor analysis, developed a multi-item scale consisting of 3 dimensions that exhibited necessary reliability and validity. Based on this Nature-Based, Eco- and Sustainable Tourists (NES)-scale, and by utilizing a cluster analysis, the study identifies 4 distinct segments among a sample of the Norwegian population: nature-based tourists, ecotourists, sustainable tourists, and mass tourists. The analysis shows that while the ecotourists make up the largest segment, the mass tourists represent the smallest segment. Using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), the resulting 4 segments are later compared on the basis of their environmental concerns. The findings suggest that the ecotourists are the most environmentally concerned whereas the mass tourists are the least environmentally concerned. Finally, based upon the overall findings of the study, a new inductive model is developed. This model highlights the interaction between different types of alternative tourists and mass tourists, by showing, inter alia, that nature-based tourism has over the years become a form of mass tourism. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are also discussed.     

Small forest landowner preferences for working forest conservation contract attributes: A case of Washington State,USA

In Washington State, small forest landowners (SFLO) play an important role in maintaining forest cover on the landscape as well as associated ecosystem services. This paper examines landowner preferences for the attributes of working forest conservation contracts (WFCC) using a choice experiment. The attributes examined are contract duration (from 10 years to perpetuity), forest management requirements, and the extent of forestland covered under the contract. We find that contract attributes are valued very differently depending on landowner objectives and harvesting behavior. Landowner characteristics and forestland spatial characteristics including distances to development and large public forestlands were found to significantly influence the likelihood of contract acceptance. While a significant portion of preference heterogeneity remains unobserved, we identify several key sources of landowner preference heterogeneity which allows for a better understanding of which landowners are likely to enroll in voluntary forest conservation contracts and may have implications for improved targeting of contracts.     

A New Approach to Predicting Recessions

This paper presents a new approach to recession prediction. The methodology relies on the shape of the yield curve alone and does not incorporate macroeconomic information or other explanatory variables. This makes the modelling framework less data intensive and more intuitive than other models that have the same goal. The workhorses of the approach are (i) data transformation of observed yields with the purpose of normalizing the yield spread, and (ii) a three-state regime-switching version of the Nelson–Siegel parametric model of the yield curves' shape and location. In an out-of-sample exercise the model predicts all US NBER recessions from 1973 to 2004 at least eight months in advance of their occurrences.     

跳时序列对UWB系统多址性能的影响

通过变换超宽带(UWB)无线电通信系统的信号模型,分析了该通信系统的多址性能,给出了跳时序列与其所产生的多址干扰之间的关系,从而明确了跳时序列的相关性能对该通信系统误码率的影响。     

“十一五”期间及2020年能源供求格局

在新一轮经济增长周期,能源对经济增长产生了新的制约。“十一五”期间及2020年之前,能源供应、提高能源效率、环境保护、石油安全及能源产业机制等尚存在诸多问题。从政策面及宏、中观角度切入,提出2020年之前能源发展的思路,以及若干政策建议与措施。     

Perfect option hedging for a large trader

Standard derivative pricing theory is based on the assumption of agents acting as price takers on the market for the underlying asset. We relax this hypothesis and study if and how a large agent whose trades move prices can replicate the payoff of a derivative security. Our analysis extends prior work of Jarrow to economies with continuous security trading. We characterize the solution to the hedge problem in terms of a nonlinear partial differential equation and provide results on existence and uniqueness of this equation. Simulations are used to compare the hedging strategies in our model to standard Black-Scholes strategies.