18 Feb 2013

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Minimizing Impact
Distractions such as telephone calls, emails, online notifications and colleagues stopping by for a chat, or even the time it takes to try to remove such distractions, are part and parcel of the modern workplace. We tend to take it for granted that long periods of uninterrupted work are few and far between. Recent research has shown that this can have quite a damaging effect on produc...
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04 Feb 2013

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Protect Business
The Growing Importance of Ethical Behaviour in Modern Workplaces As the business world becomes more diverse and expands across national boundaries, concerns about security and integrity in the workplace have never been higher. Stakeholder expectations for ethical business operations continue to rise, placing more responsibility on organisations to employ people who have high ethical sta...
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31 Jan 2013

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Multiscore
Multi-score performance ratings are employee performance feedback systems where feedback is obtained from multiple sources (supervisors, peers, clients. They are very popular, with almost all Fortune 500 companies in the US using this approach (Cheung, 1999). Why are they so popular? Research shows that there are a number of reasons that multi-score (also often known as 360 degree) per...
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17 Dec 2012

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Multitasking
Brunken and colleagues (2002) investigated multi-media learning and the processes that make it work. In two experiments . They showed that the multimedia format facilitates learning through the processes of the dual coding effect and the modality effect. The dual coding effect refers to the effect by which learning is improved when related pictures are presented at the same as text-ba...
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03 Dec 2012

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Workforce
Over 2 million Australians, or 1 in 4 workers, are classified as casual workers.  A spokesperson from the ACTU described the trend in the increase in casual workers, or 'casualisation' of the workforce, as "one of the dominant trends in the Australian workplace during the past decade". Much has been discussed about workforce casualisation, with varied views on its benefits, challenges...
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03 Dec 2012

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Report Reveals
Skills are specific competencies (such as knowledge of MS Excel) that enable performance of job tasks or functions (such as accounting tasks). While often thought of as 'less than' a qualification such as a degree, skills are essential in the workforce. Although intelligence and formal qualifications like degrees or diplomas provide a strong foundation, employees also need the practic...
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19 Nov 2012

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Success of Employees
Research has shown that while intelligence in its traditional form, including tasks assessing verbal, numerical, visuo-spatial, reasoning and working memory, is the best predictor of job performance, other skills are also important for managerial success. Sternberg's (1996; 1997) triarchic theory of intelligence proposes that intelligence is comprised of traditional analytic skills, p...
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19 Nov 2012

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Employee Ethics
A recent study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has revealed that organisations may not be doing enough to promote and protect their values within the organisation. The study found that 40% of employees believe their organisation ignores unethical behaviour and even rewards or promotes those who act improperly. In addition, only 29% of respondents had a good unders...
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12 Nov 2012

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Job Performance
lower-levelCross-cultural job performance has become a critical factor in today’s globalised workplace, where employees often interact with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders from diverse cultural backgrounds. Understanding cross-cultural job performance involves examining how cultural differences impact communication, teamwork, leadership, and productivity. The Australian work con...
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12 Nov 2012

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Research
A meta-analysis conducted in the United Kingdom (Bertua, Anderson & Salgado, 2005) has found that intelligence tests and tests of  specific cognitive abilities are strong, reliable and valid predictors of both job performance  and response to training.  Operational validities are in the range of .5-.6, meaning that these  cognitive tests can account for approximately 30% of the varia...
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