Price Of Membership Research Articles

Modeling Group Exercise Members Continuation

This research presents a conceptual model that investigates group exercise program continuation, influenced by membership price, service quality, and group cohesion. A random sample of members from recreation fitness centers completed a group exercise questionnaire (three locations, n= 200). The study measured members’ perceptions of class social cohesion, group exercise service quality, price satisfaction, and continuation. Results show that Price Satisfaction, Group Exercise Service Quality (GXSQ) and Group Integration Task (GI-T) have a direct significant relationship with Intent to Repurchase. GXSQ and Price mediate the relationship of GI-T and Continuation. Price mediating the relationship of GXSQ and intent to repurchase. GI-S does not contribute to the model. The results emphasize the importance of the quality of the program (instructor and operations) and the price point when deciding to repurchase classes. The collective task and how participants perceived satisfaction are influenced by these factors, and a positive experience leads to program continuation.

Recreation Center Membership Continuation: The Power of PRICE

Community parks and recreation departments continue to expand the size of indoor recreation centers with more dedicated spaces and an increased scope of services that includes a significant investment into the fitness division of the operation. Many modern community recreation centers require memberships, with the revenue from memberships creating self-sufficiency, and allowing the facility to operate with limited reliance on a declining tax-based support system. Keeping existing members is less work than recruiting new members, and the industry must continue to investigate how specific operation variables influence continuation. This study examined community recreation members’ (three locations; n = 353) perceptions of price, staff, equipment, programs, locker rooms, and facility parking effects on the intention to continue membership. The data were collected online, and the direct effects are examined using SPSS, AMOS, and MS Excel Advanced Statistical Analysis. The results of this research determined that membership price was the primary positive contributor to willingness to continue membership in the overall model and for each of the three locations, staff and equipment were significant in the overall model, yet the importance of these service quality dimensions differed by location. Finding differences at each location demonstrates why each operation needs to conduct regular assessments to track and gain insight into what matters to their unique customer group.

Leisure Motivation and Satisfaction: A Text Mining of Yoga Centres, Yoga Consumers, and Their Interactions

Understanding the motivation and satisfaction of yoga consumers is of critical importance for both leisure service providers and leisure researchers to enhance the sustainability of personal lives in terms of physical wellness and mental happiness. For this purpose, this study investigated 25,120 pairs of online ratings and reviews from 100 yoga centres in Shanghai, China using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)-based text mining, and successfully established the relationship between rating and review. Findings suggest that Chinese yogis are motivated by improving physical condition, improving psychological condition, gracing appearance, establishing social connection, and creating social isolation. In addition to teaching mainstream yoga, yoga centres also provide additional courses. From a consumer perspective, yogis are relatively satisfied with teachers, courses, and the environment, but complain about the supporting staff, membership price, and reservation service. Managerially, yoga centres are encouraged to continue attending to the motivations of yogis, specialising their guidance, and fostering strengths and circumventing weaknesses in their service. This study also contributes by verifying, elaborating on, and tentatively extending the framework of the Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS).

A membership pricing policy to facilitate service scale-expansion

ABSTRACTThis paper proposes a multi-year membership pricing policy for a service business like a gym chain. In the pricing policy, the equivalent membership price per year is relatively low to attract customers, and the multi-year membership fees must be prepaid in full. The prepaid cash provides resources for scale-expansion by opening new stores. We develop a nonlinear mixed integer programming model to formulate the pricing decisions. Numerical experiments reveal that the multi-year membership pricing policy, from a long-term perspective, is substantially better than the business-as-usual pricing policy (1-year membership) in cash balance, profit, and market share. Yet, the performances of the two pricing policies do not differ much from a short-term perspective. These findings indicate that the multi-year pricing policy may be a good strategy, because it initially attracts less attention of competitors; suddenly it emerges and substantially outperforms its competitors in cash balance, profit, and market share.

A Study on the Effects of Key Economic Variables on Golf Membership Price

A Study on the Effects of Key Economic Variables on Golf Membership Price

Mentorship: The Price of Membership

Mentorship: The Price of Membership

The Intention-to-Repurchase Paradox: A Case of the Health and Fitness Industry

The article proposes a conceptual model to examine the relationships between service attributes, brand associations, customer satisfaction, commitment, price of membership, and intention to repurchase in a fitness club. The results show that the services offered by the club, its security, and the promoted image of the club impact positively on satisfaction. The customer relations at the club, customer commitment, and their frequency of weekly attendance have a positive direct effect on intention to repurchase. Perceived price has a negative direct influence. Finally, the research showed that overall satisfaction has a slight positive impact on frequency of attendance. These findings create a paradox for managers of health and fitness organizations who will have to balance the need to increase frequency of attendance to positively impact on intention to repurchase with the need to deliver the service attributes that affect satisfaction and intention to repurchase at high quality level.

TMS membership: An investment in your professional future

11 www.tms.org/jom.html Each of these benefits would be costly if purchased on the open market, but all of these are now yours for the price of membership. Additionally, you can be sure that TMS will continue to offer more on-line services every year so you can continue to access important information and stay up to date at all times. Membership to a professional organization has intangible benefits as well. How do you put a price tag on the opportunity to network with colleagues with similar work or professional interests? Can you put a value on the professional growth you receive when you present a paper in front of your peers or develop a symposium on a special topical area? What worth would you assign to being part of an organization that recognizes our leaders, encourages students to enter our field, accredits university education programs, and establishes programs to certify professional engineers? Membership in a professional organization lets you give back a little to society for all of the opportunities that have been given to you. The leaders and staff of TMS know that you have the difficult decision of how to spend your precious resources of time and money. We want you to seriously consider renewing your membership to TMS. We have held the line on membership dues at $115 for 2010 while increasing the services we offer to our members. I believe we offer a good bargain for your money. Sincerely yours,

Death penalty politics and symbolic law in Russia

In contemporary Russia there is widespread support for the death penalty. Recent Russian presidents have endorsed the nation’s entry into the European Community (EC). The dilemma is that the price of membership into the EC is total abolition of capital punishment. The Russian Duma is much less popular than the president, even though it sides with public opinion in supporting capital punishment. Since 1997, these conflicting political positions have been temporarily neutralized by leaving capital punishment legislation in place but allowing the Russian president to offer clemency to all sentenced to death. In 1999, the Constitutional Court of Russia placed a moratorium on all death sentences until jury trials are re-introduced throughout the nation.

“The lady vanishes”: some thoughts on women and leadership

PurposeThis paper is concerned with some speculations and observations on the position of women in relationship to leadership roles in organizations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a theoretical piece. It attempts to analyse some of the reasons why women find it difficult to attain leadership roles and reflects on the costs to them when they do.FindingsIt considers why women are considered a threat to organizations and why organizations seek to subject women to the therapeutic imperative of rationality as the price of membership and of “success”. Put simply, it considers how women have to demonstrate male characteristics in order to “succeed” as leaders and must set aside feminine qualities: to live hyper‐abstractly “in order thus to earn divine grace and homologation with the symbolic order”. This results in an irresolvable lack in terms of what the organization desires for its completion.Originality/valueLeadership is defined by the phallus and women's leadership by its absence. The woman vanishes.

Ambivalent neighbors: the EU, NATO, and the price of membership

Almost fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, the process of creating a Europe whole and free is incomplete and likely to be so for the foreseeable future. In this volume, a group of highly distinguished contributors from both East and West examines the complicated and multi-faceted process of NATO and EU enlargement in the context of the changed global situation since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This book examines the enlargement processes not only from the perspective of the West and western institutions, but also from the point of view of the former communist countries. If an enlarged NATO and EU are to be stable and successful in the long run, they must take account of the wishes and interests of both their new, former-communist members and those European states that will not become members of either NATO or the EU in the foreseeable future. Contributors include Christopher Bobinski (Unia & Polska), Vladimir Baranovsky (Institute of the World Economy and International Relations), Heather Grabbe (Center for European Reform), Karl-Heinz Kamp (Konrad Adenauer Foundation), Charles King (Georgetown University), Alexander J. Motyl (Center for Global Change and Governance), Zaneta Ozolina (University of Latvia), Alexander Sergounin (Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University), William Wallace (London School of Economics), and Leonid Zaiko (Strategy Center).

Blacks in the White Establishment?: A Study of Race and Class in America.

The ongoing struggle by African Americans to gain access to high-level educational and career opportunities from a presumably penitent White society is chronicled in this book with an eye to the unforeseen consequences. Authors Zweigenhaft and Domhoff make provocative use of the title's question-posing stance to explore whether or not African Americans are successfully integrated into the White power structure. If not, why not? they ask; and if so, what is the price of membership? Answers to these and other relevant questions are offered via personal reflections from African American veterans of the White educational establishment. The experiences under analysis are those of some of the more than 5,000 graduates of A Better Chance, Inc. (ABC). ABC was created with government and private funding during the civil rights thrust of the 1960s, and it has continued into the present in an abbreviated, less enthusiastically funded form. This study blends ABC program data with interviews conducted from 1986 to 1988 to create an interesting and insightful portrait of Black students' transitions into lily-white prep school culture, the shifting and often difficult relations they experienced with White schoolmates and with friends and family back home, and their subsequent college and career triumphs and disappointments.In the chapter entitled From the Ghetto to the Elite, Zweigenhaft and Domhoff detail how promising African American students aged 13 to 16 (as well as some Latino, Asian, and Native American students) were removed from their urban, low-income home and school environments and placed in prestigious, wealthy New England preparatory schools. Ninety-nine percent of ABC's early graduates went on to college, compared to only 40% of their inner-city high school peers. Students like Vest Monroe (1988), who wrote of his experiences in Brothers--Black and Poor: A True Story of Courage and Survival, were part of a select group of 430 ABC students who in 1966 made their first journey into the elitist world of schools such as Andover, Exeter, Concord, and St. George's academies. BIacks in the White Establishment? includes Monroe's anecdotal account of a doomed attempt to replicate at home the formal eating style he had acquired while at school. According to Monroe, he was quickly advised by his sister, Why don't you leave that St. George's bulls*** at St. George's? This example vividly illustrates the unanticipated dilemmas of growing up in two culturally separate worlds. Another ABC graduate, who attended the MacDuffie School, relates a poignant memory of her first day on campus, when, as she recalled, a White student promptly informed her that she had never been near anyone Black other than her maid. Other ABC students describe the turmoil associated with leaning how to talk, dress, and act properly in the elite private school environment, and the cultural clashes that emerged as a result. …

Adieu, Le Premier Club du Vin

There is on earth no body more prestigious than Boston's Le Premier Club du Vin. You may trot out the College of Cardinals, perhaps, or the San Francisco Bar when Belli shows up, and for color and pomp you might have something. But for sorting out Sauternes, Boston's Best has no peer. (The price of membership included no small amount of groveling on my part, I might add.) Why, then, after ten memorable years of Mouton, Musigny, and Montrachet are they disbanding? Why indeed! Why do you need proof of a recent stress test to see the adult shows at the county fair? Why are small New England villages disincorporating and turning into parking lots, lobstermen selling the family boat, riding academies turning the Morgans out to pasture, obstetricians sending their kids to vet school? Why? Liability insurance premiums, of course. Faced with a jump from $4000 per year to

Two-Tier Pricing of Shared Facilities in a Free-Entry Equilibrium

We explore how well the market will provide shared facilities which are subject to congestion. It is usually efficient to have multiple facilities because it is more efficient to spend resources on facilities than to endure crowding costs. We assume firms can charge a membership price and a visit price. We present a symmetric Nash equilibrium in these two prices. We show that ifthe number offirms is large, the membership price will be small. Thus, the membership price is a measure of market power. When entry occurs in response to positive profit (but such that entry is deterred by the prospect of negative profit in a symmetric Nash equilibrium), the endogenous number offirms is bounded below by one fewer than the efficient number. Thefees paid by a client converge to an appropriately defined competitive price as the economy is replicated.

The Price of Membership is Promotion

Journal Article The Price of Membership is Promotion Get access Helen J. Hislop, PH.D. Helen J. Hislop, PH.D. Editor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Physical Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 1967, Page 775, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/47.9.775 Published: 01 September 1967