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Microsoft Word Matters – Most Popular Corporate Software

rightpeople — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:26:35 +0000

“After Web browsers Word is the most-used app on the planet; it’s still the platinum standard in word processing. Nothing else even comes close” (PCMag, March 2013). Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.” It’s been in existence since 1983, and since that time has undergone 14 revisions, the most recent being Word […]

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Time Management Scale – The Utility of ATOMS

rightpeople — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:29:16 +0000

The importance of effective time management skills in the workplace has been highlighted by issues including increasing workloads, less funding and greater diversity in the client base. A situation has been created where health professionals need to achieve more in less time, making good time management skills essential. The importance of these skills has been endorsed by […]

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Employee Engagement Essential in Professional Services Firms

rightpeople — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:30:55 +0000

The importance of employee engagement has been discussed in previous posts. Recent research indicates that nowhere is employee engagement more important than in professional services firms. While these firms are necessarily primarily client focused, ultimately the success of professional services firms relies on the success of their employees’ work. And the most successful employees are […]

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English Second Language Training and Support

rightpeople — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 03:08:23 +0000

In Australia, on average 15 percent of all school students come from a non-English speaking background. In some states it is much higher: in New South Wales this figure is almost 25 percent English Second Language Students, as it is in the Northern Territory, and in Victoria it is 20 percent. According to Adriano Truscott, president of […]

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Multimedia and multi-tasking

rightpeople — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:54:49 +0000

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 […]

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Job performance in the global economy: how the meaning of job performance varies cross-culturally

rightpeople — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:54:59 +0000

In the Australian work context, together with other similar individualistic Western countries (such as the USA and UK), job performance is typically assessed in terms of task (in-role) behaviour – i.e., how well an employee performs their duties; organisational citizenship behaviour – i.e., going ‘above and beyond’ role requirements such as helping other employees with their workload; and counterproductive […]

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The hidden costs of employee disengagement

rightpeople — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:58:46 +0000

A recent research poll of Australian workers has found that more than 80% of Australian employees feel disengaged and work, with more than 20% being actively disengaged, that is behaving in ways that are actively harmful to the organisation. They estimated that disengagement costs Australian organisations at least $33.5 Billion a year in lost productivity. […]

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Work safety needs a human touch

rightpeople — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Most organisational occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions focus on controlling employee procedures and the physical work environment in an effort to maximise workplace safety. While such efforts are important, they do not take into account the human factors related to work safety, such as individual and group attitudes and the influence of management. Recent […]

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Safeguarding your workforce

rightpeople — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:37:16 +0000

Australia’s Aging Workforce The ageing of Australia’s workforce is one of businesses’ major emerging challenges. By 2044-45 it is estimated that 25% of Australians will be aged 65 years or over, which is approximately double the present population. Additionally, over the last decade the average age of the Australian workforce (especially the full-time workforce) has been […]

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Safety matters, just ask Orica!

rightpeople — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:48:01 +0000

Incidents such as the leak of the cancer-causing chemical hexavalent chromium by Orica in Newcastle in August last year highlight the importance of safety procedures and proper handling of health and safety incidents by organisations. Following the leak the plant was closed for 6 months, it reportedly lost $90 million in earnings, it faced court […]

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