Annmarie Nicely Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Learning and human behavior issues in hospitality business and tourism communities (in the case of the latter visitor harassment in tourism communities)
School of Hospitality and Tourism Management College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, USA
Dr. Nicely is an Associate Professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue. Her primary area of research is behavioral issues in hospitality business and tourism communities. She is the founder and lead researcher of the Visitor Harassment Research Unit at Purdue.
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Author(s): Annmarie Nicely
The goal of the present study was to ascertain what was important for hotel managers to experience high levels of learning from networking. That is, whether it was the depth, variety, or type of network. One hundred and sixty one hotel managers in Jamaica were surveyed. The data Generated Were subjected to regression and independent t-test analyses. The study found network variety to be a significant predictor the hotel managers’ use of knowledge from networking to solve problems and innovate at work, not the frequency with which they networked. However, relatedness of such network was ... view moreĀ»