title: Work overload, parental demand, perceived organizational support, family support, and work-family conflict among New Zealand and Malaysian academics

authors: Nasurdin, Aizzat Mohd

abstract: Relationships between work overload and parental demands with work-family conflict were investigated among New Zealand and Malaysian academics. In addition, social support from the work and family domains were explored as moderators in the proposed relationships. Two public universities, one located in New Zealand and the other in Malaysia, participated in the study. Analysis of data gathered from 202 academic staff from New Zealand and 183 from Malaysia demonstrated similar findings concerning the positive relationships between work overload and work-to-family interference across the two samples. Contrary to prediction, parental demand was found to be unrelated to family-to-work interference in both samples. In addition, no evidence emerged for the moderating effects of perceived organizational support and the two forms of family support. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

text: Work overload, parental demand, perceived organizational support, family support, and work-family conflict among New Zealand and Malaysian academics Relationships between work overload and parental demands with work-family conflict were investigated among New Zealand and Malaysian academics. In addition, social support from the work and family domains were explored as moderators in the proposed relationships. Two public universities, one located in New Zealand and the other in Malaysia, participated in the study. Analysis of data gathered from 202 academic staff from New Zealand and 183 from Malaysia demonstrated similar findings concerning the positive relationships between work overload and work-to-family interference across the two samples. Contrary to prediction, parental demand was found to be unrelated to family-to-work interference in both samples. In addition, no evidence emerged for the moderating effects of perceived organizational support and the two forms of family support. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

year: 2012

title: Algebraic invariants arising from the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs

authors: Delbourgo, Daniel

abstract: This paper investigates some algebraic properties of the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs, i.e. graphs which have three internally disjoint paths sharing the same two distinct end vertices. We give a complete description of the Galois group, discriminant and ramification indices for the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs with three consecutive path lengths. We then do the same for theta graphs with three paths of the same length, by comparing them algebraically to the first family. This algebraic link extends naturally to generalised theta graphs with k + 1 branches.

text: Algebraic invariants arising from the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs This paper investigates some algebraic properties of the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs, i.e. graphs which have three internally disjoint paths sharing the same two distinct end vertices. We give a complete description of the Galois group, discriminant and ramification indices for the chromatic polynomials of theta graphs with three consecutive path lengths. We then do the same for theta graphs with three paths of the same length, by comparing them algebraically to the first family. This algebraic link extends naturally to generalised theta graphs with k + 1 branches.

year: 2014

title: Precariat Māori households today

authors: Rua, Mohi

abstract: Aotearoa New Zealand is now the fifth most unequal economy in the OECD. To highlight the human cost of this situation, the concept of “the precariat” offers more informed and contextualised understandings of the situations of socio-economically marginalised people in Aotearoa. Significant societal and policy change is required for Māori whānau to be truly free from the cycle of precarity.

text: Precariat Māori households today Aotearoa New Zealand is now the fifth most unequal economy in the OECD. To highlight the human cost of this situation, the concept of “the precariat” offers more informed and contextualised understandings of the situations of socio-economically marginalised people in Aotearoa. Significant societal and policy change is required for Māori whānau to be truly free from the cycle of precarity.

year: 2019