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What influence does brand play on the adoption of new converged portable digital media devices amongst young adults in Australia?
Rogerson, David
Technology facilitating personal communication is becoming increasingly complex, providing consumers with a variety of choices in terms of connectivity options. Young adults aged between 18 to 34 years are the current and future consumers of today’s rapidly developing and changing technological developments. The speed that rapid advances in technology reach the market also contribute to the challenges faced by young adults in their choice of convergent communication options. For researchers the challenge resides in analysing the influences on consumer adoption of new media technologies in a rapidly changing environment where new applications evolve in a matter of months. This study aims to achieve a better understanding of what influences the decision young adults make when selecting a particular converged mobile device, and outlines an online research project currently seeking to determine the role of brand in the purchase decision making process of mobile phone converged technology in Australia.
2010-09-30T22:00:00Z
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2010-10-06T20:28:49Z
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Student Choice Criteria for Selecting an Indonesian Public University: A Preliminary Finding
Kusumawati, Andriani
This research aims to explore the factors that influence student choice in the selection of an Indonesian Public University. The research design is conducted by mixed-method approach. For the first phase, semi-structured and focus-groups interviews were carried out with the same cohort of 48 first-year undergraduate students in five Indonesian public universities. Preliminary results revealed 25 choice criteria for selecting a university considered by Indonesian students. Finally, implications and recommendations are presented.
2010-09-30T21:00:00Z
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2010-09-26T22:36:03Z
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Economic Development Strategy in Regional Local Government
Pemberton, Carl
The initial foray into the subject of strategy quickly revealed that strategy per se is a very complex and ambiguous topic with little consensus among the experts. Yet a very clear understanding of ‘strategy’ is essential before it can be applied in context to regional local government. It is the author’s view that many of the ‘strategies’ published as local government policy are not based on strategic thinking but rather ‘extrapolation of historical data’ – the strategic planners themselves have acknowledged this fact. This paper reviews various theories and aspects of ‘strategy’ for the purpose of clarifying the concept and placing it in context of local government strategy development.
2010-10-01T23:00:00Z
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2010-09-26T22:55:09Z
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In search of a Corporate Rescue Culture: A review of the Australian Part 5.3A Legislation
Blazic, Michael Joseph
In the context of the financial turmoil following the recent global financial crisis and the threat of a global double dip recession at our doorstep, the importance of a strong rescue framework in Australia has never been more relevant. The current dynamic economic environment has inevitably focused the spotlight on the current Part 5.3A Voluntary Administration legislation as the mechanism responsible for facilitating the survival and restructure of distressed Australian companies. With the rapid decline in the use of Voluntary Administration since the introduction of the Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Act 2007 (Cth), this relegation of the corporate rehabilitation framework poses significant challenges to the advancement of a corporate ‘rescue-based’ culture in Australia. With only one in four distressed companies using the Voluntary Administration procedure in 2009, the diminishing prevalence and use of the Voluntary Administration procedure against the backdrop of increasing Australian insolvency trends has led many to advocate that the current Australian rescue regime is not sufficiently ‘rescue focused’. These criticisms surround the inability of the existing Voluntary Administration framework to facilitate the restructuring of companies as a matter of course. A review of literature in the restructuring field indicates a substantial body of information that identifies the following fundamental barriers to successful restructuring in Australia.
2010-10-02T18:30:00Z
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2010-09-26T22:32:03Z
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Does the Outsourcing of customer Service Call Centres within Financial Institutions Influence Customer Satisfaction?
Hinchcliff, Mercedez
This paper discusses the key factors behind customer satisfaction and compares them to SERVQUAL. The paper attempts to identify if outsourcing is a key indicator in a consumers’ satisfaction level and details how the researcher will answer this question.
2010-10-01T22:00:00Z
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2010-09-27T22:27:00Z
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Factors influencing the time management behaviours of small business managers
McNamara, Peter
The economic and social contribution of the nearly two million Australian small business enterprises is significant. The challenge of owning, managing and ensuring a business is successful is onerous. Whilst failure rates are reportedly high, many small business managers are successful because they have the right products, a particularly strong work ethic and excellent time management skills. The purpose of this research is to explore the factors that most influence small business managers in their time management behaviours. The paper also argues that a more qualitative approach to understanding the forces that impact on small business manager time behaviours will lead to a clearer understanding of the situational variables that enable good time management practices. It is also hoped that this research may contribute to manager awareness of the importance of time management behaviours in the achievement of business and personal goals.
2010-09-30T23:30:00Z
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2010-09-26T22:24:03Z
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Assessing reliability and validity of a measurement instrument for studying uncertain factors in Thai rice supply chain
Thongrattana, Phatcharee Toghaw
It is widely argued that uncertain factors generate unstable processes along supply chains, which in the end worsen their performance. This research assesses reliability and validity seven uncertain factors (supply, demand, process, planning and control, competitor behavior; government policy and climate uncertainty). Data for the study were collected from rice millers and rice exporters, and the measurement scales were tested on reliability and validity using Partial Least Squares (PLS) and Multicollinearity as there are the formative measurement models. The results support that the formative measures of uncertain factors are reliable and valid. It is expected that this study will provide a useful measurement instrument to assess any effects in agri-supply chains for further research.
2010-10-01T21:00:00Z
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2010-09-26T22:25:46Z
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Capabilities and Levels of Supply Chain Integration in Malaysian SMEs: A Preliminary Analysis
Zulkiffli, Siti Nur Atikah
The purpose of this study is to analyse a preliminary data through the descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and reliability test. The analysis is based on a quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey from a total of 135 Malaysian SMEs’ manufacturing companies. This analysis reveals a good result of EFA, and reliability test. The most critical limitation of this study is its narrow focused on the manufacturing sector in Malaysian SMEs, thus, preventing the generalisation to other sectors and also to other countries that may gain the benefits from the responsiveness of both capabilities and levels of supply chain integration. Also, this study may contribute to the body of knowledge by providing new data and empirical insights into the relationship between CCC, SCOC, levels of supply chain integration, and business performance in Malaysian SMEs.
2010-10-01T21:30:00Z
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2010-10-05T00:37:28Z
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Implementation of “Top-Down” Government Policy: Health Promotion Case Studies in NSW
Devlin, Elizabeth
This study appraises the implementation of the health promotion components of the NSW State Plan and State Health Plan. Four case studies were conducted in a sample of Area Health Services (AHSs). Mixed methods were used and data triangulated where possible. This study found that AHSs share the state policies’ vision of a greater focus on health promotion/prevention on paper, but not in reality. Health promotion is not as important to AHSs as the acute care sector. Consequently, health promotion/prevention receives a tiny share of the budget and little attention. While this study has found some routine policy implementation failures, the overarching finding is the need for a rethink of prevention and health promotion delivery. The establishment of a separate prevention agency to deliver standard programs across the state, introduce an appropriate performance-monitoring framework, and have transparent and monitored funding tied to program delivery is the key recommendation.
2010-10-01T23:30:00Z
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2010-09-27T22:40:29Z
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Conference opening - schedule of events
Glynn, John
Professor John Glynn, Executive Dean of the Sydney Business School will present the 'Welcome to Research Week' address. A copy of the conference schedule is attached, with a full list of the various speakers and panel sessions on offer.
2010-09-30T18:00:00Z
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2010-09-27T22:30:33Z
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What is essential for an organisation to be described by its employees as having a Positive Safety Culture
Warren, Kurt
The thesis questions aims to establish advanced opportunities for Positive Safety Culture improvement, through understanding the essence of a first person lived experience from the shop floor to the boardroom in an industrial demographic.
2010-09-30T23:00:00Z
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2010-10-05T00:18:17Z
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Research Funding - UOW and External Grants
Carter, Claire
Ms Carter is Research Grants Manager at the Research Services Office, University of Wollongong. Her presentation outlines the various processes involved in securing research funding.
2010-10-01T18:00:00Z
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2010-10-05T00:11:35Z
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Improving Research Design to Impact on Decision Making
Eckermann, Simon
Research has expected value to policy makers in reducing decision making uncertainty. Efficient trial design an grant proposals should attempt to maximise the expected value relative to the expected cost of research - value of information methods can be used to estimate this explicitly.
2010-10-01T16:30:00Z
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2010-10-05T00:23:02Z
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What an Examiner Expects from a Thesis
Soutar, Geoff
Professor Souter's presentation outlines what he, as an examiner, looks for when assessing a thesis.
2010-09-30T18:45:00Z
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2010-10-05T00:29:13Z
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Looking at a Values Research Program
Soutar, Geoff
Professor Soutar's presentation outlines preliminary results from a long term research program focused on values.
2010-10-01T18:45:00Z
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2010-10-05T00:34:03Z
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Social Marketing
McLean, Geoffrey
This paper documents the output from a literature review of social marketing which will be used to formulate a research proposal that will serve as the basis of a DBA thesis. The intention was to evaluate the quality of literature from varying sources and to establish if there were research gaps. The research hypothesis for the thesis is that social marketing has the potential to influence crime reporting behaviour by the general public and thereby facilitate the development of more effective strategies to deal with the problem of criminal damage to property in the form of vandalism and graffiti.
2010-09-30T21:30:00Z
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2010-10-06T20:35:23Z
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The evidence for the benefits of happiness
Oades, Lindsay
This presentation covers the following topics: * The rise of happiness research; * A science needs a definition of its construct; * How to measure happiness?; * From conditional happiness to the happiness advantage; * Five evidence statements about the benefits of happiness; * How to design such studies????; and * How to get happiness?
2010-10-02T17:30:00Z
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2011-09-15T02:29:43Z
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Materialism and Cultural orientation: Vertical and Horizontal Individualism within and across Cultures
Soutar, Geoff
Materialism and Cultural orientation: Vertical and Horizontal Individualism within and across Cultures.
2011-09-28T17:00:00Z
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2011-09-15T02:26:07Z
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Conference opening - schedule of events
Glynn, John
Professor John Glynn, Executive Dean, Sydney Business School will present the 'Welcome and Opening of the Conference address. Also present will be Prof. Judy Raper, DVC (Research) and Tim Marchant, Dean of Research. A copy of the conference schedule is attached, with a full list of the various speakers and panel sessions on offer.
2011-09-28T16:30:00Z
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2011-09-21T05:07:24Z
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Long Term Care Needs and Service Utilisation of Individuals Catastrophically Injured in Motor Vehicles in NSW
Gordon, Robert
This paper presents an update on the status of a thesis examining long term care
needs and service utilisation patterns of individual whom sustain a moderate to
severe injury in a motor vehicle accident in NSW. A sample of 126 individuals, from
four cohorts at 2, 5, 10 and 15+ years post traumatic brain or spinal cord injury have
participated in a semi-structured interview during which demographic, clinical, service
utilisation and life events data were collected using 10 separate instruments.
Preliminary demographic results are consistent with the profile of incidence data
reported previously in terms of gender, age and level of overall function. A detailed
analysis will be undertaken in the near future to model the relationship between a
range of variables including levels of disability, formal and informal care
requirements, service utilisation patterns, met and unmet needs. The objective of the
thesis is to add to the body of knowledge in a way that can contribute to current
national policy developments.
2011-09-28T18:00:00Z
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2011-09-21T05:39:45Z
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Sexual Orientation Disclosure, Concealment and the Effects of Heterosexism
Smith, Ian
There is minimal research on the effects of ‘outness’ (sexual orientation disclosure) on the work experiences of GLBT employees. Few empirically sound studies from the literature have compared the variable of outness, its effect on workplace heterosexism, the psychological well-being of GLBT employees and their general life and job satisfaction. Due to the stigmatized status of sexual minority members in our society, GLBT employees hold varied attitudes and value systems regarding their sexual identity. Evidence suggests that GLBT employees apply sexual identity management strategies to manage the stress involved in disclosing ones sexual orientation. The present study intends to examine hypothesized relationships of sexual orientation disclosure, concealment, heterosexism (workplace discrimination) and supportive organisational policy implementation and these effects on psychological well-being.
2011-09-28T22:15:00Z
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The Role of Strengths in Managing Midlife Career Transition for Corporate Professionals
Shi, Yu Dan
Trends within midlife professionals suggest individuals are increasingly seeking opportunities for career transitions, and are often searching for careers that are more intrinsically motivated, individually meaningful and self-congruent. However, developmental transitions are by their very nature stressful. This research seeks to understand how corporate professionals between the ages of 35-54 successfully manage midlife career transition amidst the stress and anxiety associated with that transition. The traditional approach to career transition is based on a competence framework either focusing on retraining or applying transferrable skills. This approach might not be most appropriate for corporate professionals over the age of 35. A strength-based approach is therefore being proposed in this paper as an alternative approach. Phenomenological research involving six professionals between the ages of 35-54 who have gone through the midlife career transition will be utilised to identify common experiences, and investigate what role strengths may play in managing ones career transition.
2011-09-28T22:15:00Z
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2011-09-21T05:08:54Z
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It’s the Little Things that Matter: Implementation of Evidence-based Practice in Residential Aged Care
Masso, Malcolm
Considerable research has been undertaken in health care about implementing evidence-based practice but there has been little research in residential aged care. Thirteen projects were funded by the Australian Government to implement evidence-based practice in residential aged care, in nine different areas of practice. This study was undertaken to draw on the experiences of those involved in the program to identify the key mechanisms that influenced implementation.
The methodology used grounded theory from a critical realist perspective, involving semi-structured interviews with 51 people in 44 interviews.
Data analysis resulted in the development of a core category and three underlying mechanisms. The findings highlight the importance of having a ‘common ground’ on which implementation could take place; with a process of learning that connected people, knowledge and practice; within a context of reconciling competing priorities. Human agency, individually and collectively, was the final arbiter of whether changes were implemented.
2011-09-28T18:00:00Z
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2011-09-22T00:25:17Z
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The Aging Workforce: How Can Australian Universities Address Future Workforce Challenges?
Loomes, Susan
Australia is facing major demographic challenges fueled by low workforce participation rates and the exit of the baby boomers from the workforce. Universities are likely to face the same workforce challenges. However, they may be in a better position than mainstream businesses due to the skills required, the flexibility of hours, and the nature and casualization of the workforce. This opens the door to attract retiring business professionals and aiding them to transition into academic teaching roles. For this non-traditional recruitment pathway to succeed, universities will need to ensure they have appropriate education and training pathways, mentoring along with peer review and comprehensive performance management procedures.
2011-09-29T21:15:00Z
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2011-09-22T00:41:26Z
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The Challenges of Corporate Performance Measurement
Reed-Stephenson, Scott
Corporate performance measurement has evolved in recent decades to encompass perspectives beyond historical financial information provided by accounting systems. Despite this evolution, organisations still face challenges in selecting performance measures and combining them into a performance measurement system to guide the implementation of strategy and improve corporate performance. This paper reviews the literature related to corporate performance measurement to highlight the challenges facing organisations in measuring and managing corporate performance.
2011-09-30T17:00:00Z
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2011-09-22T00:36:28Z
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Corporate Drumming, Flow and Team Efficacy: The Use of Drum Circles and Shared Flow Experiences to Promote Team Efficacy
Hemmings, Barry
Drum circles are popular examples of team building activities and there are aspects of the drumming activity that mark them as being somewhat different to other offerings in this space. Particularly, the activity is often completed without speech or interaction of a hierarchical nature. Also, this apparently simple activity appears to produce strong positive emotions in participants. Of interest in this research is that the drumming activity appears to include many of the attributes and conditions that support the presence of the psychological concept of flow. Also, the activity is group based so there may be the presence of a group based version of flow known as social flow (Walker, 2010). At the individual level, flow is known to be associated with self efficacy but there is little research to demonstrate this relationship at the group or team level.
2011-09-30T17:00:00Z
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2011-09-22T02:12:12Z
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Adding Value to Public Hospital Pathology: Identifying Key Attributes that Requestors Associate with Quality
Wienholt, Louise
Pathology services are undergoing a period of dynamic change in the Australian health market. As costs continue to be rationalised there has been an increasing requirement to quantitate and improve the clinical utility and value of pathology in healthcare delivery.
Through literature review we propose a model to assess how this service is valued by clinicians and the dimensions that influence the perception of quality.
A number of concepts of service delivery are examined and their applicability to pathology service discussed. From these 14 dimensions are proposed as having substantial influence on the perception of the quality of pathology services by clinicians, which are classified into pre-existing contributors, service quality dimensions and personal perception.
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2011-09-26T05:14:18Z
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The Impact of Social Capital and Policy Inducement on Collective Efficiency in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Cluster
Mawardi, Mukhammad K
Cluster or industrial district has long been acknowledged as firm’s, in particularly micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) mechanism to cope their limitation. Two compelling theories explaining this phenomenon are cluster and industrial district. Although, root on common theoretical ground, these theories focus on different unit analysis and emerges in different context. This paper propose the conceptual model in interpreting the dynamics of cluster and how social capital and cluster policy impact on the collective efficiency of cluster. To support the model, literatures explaining the collective efficiency, social capital and cluster policy are critically reviewed. This paper is ended by proposing research method to apply the model in the empirical study.
2011-09-30T19:00:00Z
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2011-10-30T22:46:02Z
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Impact of Authentic Leadership & Virtuousness on Organisational Performance during a Downsizing Exercise
Rodwell, Abby
Leadership plays a pivotal role in organisational performance which is often highlighted during periods of crisis (Cameron & Lavine, 2006). Typically in today’s modern society it is the board of directors who are given the role of leading organisations, the board operates by making decisions collectively in an environment where the relationship between the Chairperson of the board and the CEO has a cascade effect throughout the organisation (Australian Institute of Company Directors, 2010).
This paper will examine the impact authentic leadership & virtuousness has on organisational performance during a downsizing exercise, highlighting the cascade effect of the Chairperson’s role combined with elements of organisational virtuousness on positive deviant outcomes.
Key theoretical interests will focus on authentic leadership and organisational virtuousness.
2011-09-30T17:00:00Z
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2011-09-22T00:45:14Z
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Psychological Flexibility as a Mechanism of Change in the Quality of Care in Health Care Settings: A Brief Review of Literature and Study Outline
Brkic, Gorjana
The construct of psychological flexibility is emerging as a relevant variable for study of individual and organisational outcomes. This paper provides a brief review of literature on the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ACT in the workplace settings and outlines elements of the current study, seeking to investigate psychological flexibility as a change mechanism in the quality of care in health settings. It is hypothesised that enhancing psychological flexibility will have a positive effect on the quality of care delivered and the capacity of employees to cope with the demands of the workplace as evidenced in better psychological health and greater resilience.
The study will utilise principles of participatory action research to deliver an ACT based intervention to enhance psychological flexibility. The proposed research is expected to contribute to the recognised lack of empirical work investigating the role that the concept of psychological flexibility may play in achieving organisational outcomes.
2011-09-28T22:15:00Z
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2011-09-22T00:56:59Z
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Exploring Positive Organisational Development in an Educational Organisation
Dulagil, Aylin
The objective of this paper is to explore different concepts that relate to facilitating and measuring positive organisational development. It examines the positive change approach of appreciative inquiry, in order to explore the impact of appreciative inquiry on enhancing employee self-determination. Self-determination has been found to increase well-being and has been proposed as a framework for researching employee engagement. The proposed studies will examine this framework further, specifically in relation to autonomy support. Coaching is proposed as another important intervention for enhancing self-determination and employee engagement and also as a complementary technique for embedding and enhancing organisational change. The proposed studies to examine these relationships are described below.
2011-09-30T20:45:00Z
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Position Paper ‐ Supply
McGowan, Carol
Over the last 30 years there has been considerable research associated with supply related matters. Even though there has been much activity no one has attempted to define and explore ‘supply’ in and of itself. By observation it would appear that approximately 80% of the activities relates to ‘Supply Chain’ and its various constructs some of the more significant ones being: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain Performance (SCP), Supply Chain Orientation (SCO) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM). This paper will outline what has been found in the extant literature. It highlights the fact that consensus of definitions has not been reached and this could be a consequence of not exploring the most fundamental construct of ‘supply’. After exploring and analysing what does exist it then goes on to discuss some of the challenges that exist and some key omissions that could help to define future research initiatives.
2011-09-29T18:45:00Z
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2011-10-05T02:50:30Z
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Understanding Student Choice Criteria for Selecting an Indonesian Public University: A Conjoint Analysis Approach
Kusumawati, Andriani
This research aims to estimate the relative importance the students attach to the factors that influence them to select an Indonesian public university and determine whether there are groups of students for whom different factors were more important. The data was examined using conjoint analysis approach, a widely accepted method for evaluating multiattribute alternatives in marketing. Findings indicate that high school leavers in developing markets, view advice from family, friends, and/or teachers, reputation, and job prospect as the most important factors for selecting a public university. However, two different preference-based segments of prospective students were identified from cluster analysis, and classified into students’ ‘social networks-based decision’ and ‘rational decision’ segments. Choice simulator was employed with three propositions and the segments were found to have dissimilar preferences. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications and limitations of the method as well as direction for the future research.
2011-09-30T19:00:00Z
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2011-10-05T02:47:26Z
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Determining Demographic Influences on Managers’ Use of Accommodation or Non-accommodation in Communication With Direct Reports in Australian Workplaces
Rogerson, Ann
This paper outlines a project aiming to identify demographic influences that influence communication by managers with their direct reports in Australian workplaces. A study has been designed using an online survey to identify whether and in what circumstances managers, in the interests of effective communication at work, consciously alter modifiers such as words, tone and the pace of speech, to accommodate perceived demographic differences. The study will also capture whether and in what circumstances managers decide not to alter the way they communicate when demographic differences are perceived. Managers’ responses rating the outcome of a critical interpersonal communication event will be measured against a range of demographic attributes – age, gender, educational background, cultural background, organisational tenure, and English language use. Variations will be analysed to determine the types of demographic factors that influence face to face communication events and perceived outcomes. In addition, the study will determine whether specific demographic factors are associated with the use of accommodative communication practices in diverse workforces.
2011-09-29T21:15:00Z
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2011-09-26T05:27:09Z
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Presenteeism in Australian Workforce; Impact of Psychological Flexibility and Autonomous Motivation
Najafi, Nazanin
Modern workplaces should acquire proper strategies in reacting effectively to presenteeism and its associated cost of productivity loss in order to increase firm’s profitability. Presenteeism is defined as being present at work but unable to be fully engaged with the work environment. In fact, presenteeism is employees’ inappropriate copying strategies to deal with stress and exhaustion caused by unfavourable work environment and fear of job or payment loss (Cooper, 1999 & Lack, 2011).
Wide range of physiological, financial, social, and medical studies has been conducted in relation to presenteeism in the workplace; however, escalating costs of presenteeism is still one of the major health-related financial burden to the global economy and a threat to individuals’ well-being. Therefore, many researchers and scholars have emphasised on the importance of more precise research in this area. (Bond et al., 2001 & Cooper et al., 1999).
This study investigates the impact of autonomous motivation and psychological flexibility on employees’ well being and their level presenteeism. The theoretical framework in this paper is based on Self-determination theory and the research hypotheses will be examined by using online questionaries sent to randomly selected participants. The last phase of study is aiming to introduce the main elements of autonomous motivation (i.e. competence, relatedness, autonomy) and psychological flexibility (i.e. acceptance, action) in reducing the level of presenteeism at workplace.
2011-09-28T22:15:00Z
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2011-09-26T05:30:36Z
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Factors Impacting on the Efficacy of Feedback for Formative Assessment
Middleton, Mark
This paper focuses on factors impacting on the efficacy of feedback for formative assessment. A number of studies have found that formative assessment drives learning and that feedback is a distinguishing feature of formative assessment. The effect of feedback on student learning is well documented, however the provision of feedback does not guarantee that learning will take place. A number of factors impacting on feedback have been reviewed in the literature. However the relational process between student and teacher and whether this impacts the effectiveness and acceptance of feedback is relatively unexplored and needs to be more closely examined. Investigation of factors surrounding the relational process that contributes to the integration of feedback for learning will be explored, particularly in the context of a postgraduate business school.
2011-09-30T20:45:00Z
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Sustainable Supply and Supply Chain Mapping - Sri Lankan Tea Supply Chain
Jayaratne, Pradeepa
Sustainable supply chain management has gained great attention during last few decades. Companies not only need to deliver quality products, but also have to comply with environmental, economical, ethical and social aspects. This has created more challenges for managing the supply chain. Increased customer awareness in sustainability concepts has further increased the challenges. In supply chain management sustainable supply is an important part of any business and it is critical for the success of the whole supply chain. With identifying the importance in these concepts; this paper tries to define the sustainable supply and supply chain mapping using a theoretical framework. It further describes the research methodology that is used to identify the influencing factors on sustainable tea supply in Sri Lanka tea supply chain.
2011-09-30T19:00:00Z
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2011-09-27T00:25:39Z
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A Position Paper on What is Supply
Kotob, Fadi
Supply is an important topic which needs to be well researched for providing insight about the needed characteristics for fulfilling the customer supply needs. Researched topics are mainly focused on specific features of supply. This research is aimed at providing an understanding of the supply characteristics relevant to the 21st century. In order to understand these characteristics, journal articles relevant to the topic were researched and analysed. The study resulted in collating a supply definition which incorporates the various views of supply identified in the research. The study also proposed a hypothetical supply model that supports the new definition. Having a clear understanding of what is supply in the 21st century is crucial in order to be able to fulfill the customer needs. The world is changing and the importance of sensing and responding to customer requirements is becoming crucial. Sourced supplies will need to meet the evolving supply requirements which include things such as minimum impact on the environment. It is these supply characteristics which will decide if future supplies are going to meet the customer requirements.
2011-09-29T18:45:00Z
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Sustainable Supply
Edwards, Mark
Supply chain management literature has a variety of definitions to describe supply chain management. The original discussion was to discuss what is sustainable supply. Yet, it became apparent that this was not possible. In order to understand sustainable supply you first need to know what do we mean by supply. The focus of this paper to be relevant needed to focus its research to find the foundation of the definition of supply. To define supply, a literature review was conducted. The reviews specific attention focussed on finding a definition for supply from the various supply chain and supply chain management journals, theses and books. The result of the review found that the definitions were many and varied and could not provide a clear definition on what is supply. The definitions for supply chain and supply chain management lacked clarity, and focussed on business trends to shape and define this field. Becasue of the inability of finding a definition for supply it therefore highlights the need for developing a firm foundation with which to describe and define the management of supply before we can even consider the rewards of defining sustainable supply. Since supply chain management is about managing supply, it is suggested that further research be undertaken to change further research on answering the question; “what is supply”. Further work then needs to be done to understand what we mean by sustainability. Upon completion of these two projects furhter work can occur to competently define the meaning of sustainable supply.
2011-09-29T18:45:00Z
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2012-08-14T04:16:05Z
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The relationship of employee engagement and wellbeing to organisational and student outcomes
Dulagil, Aylin
Employee engagement is gaining popularity in management literature; however it remains an unclear and somewhat undifferentiated psychological construct. Self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) outlines three basic psychological needs that enhance human flourishing and offers a potentially comprehensive framework for defining and predicting employee engagement. This paper reviews the literature surrounding employee engagement, well-being and perceived autonomy support in organisations. In doing so, this paper examines existing theories of employee engagement. Finally, this paper reviews the literature regarding the relationship between employee engagement and organisational outcomes.
2012-08-06T18:30:00Z
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2012-08-14T04:32:04Z
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Management Skills for Professionals - Are they Required? A Case Study on the Needs of Engineering Undergraduate Students
Childs, Peter
Gibson, Peter
This paper examines issues around graduate professional engineers and their management skills, questioning whether they are adequate for the modern engineering workplace and goes on the consider the notion that for the majority of engineers, the development of managerial skills will be essential and cannot be 'picked up on the job'. Engineers increasingly need to understand the interactions between design, quality, sustainability, product planning, and organisation, management of people, team work and finance. This paper considers the need to develop managerial skills and will discuss the development of a survey to be carried out in an Australian context. The survey will cover a range of firms and governmental bodies which employ graduate engineers. The questions will cover a wide range of non-engineering skills which could be expected of engineers within the first five years from the commencement of their careers. The two disciplines, Engineering and Management have enjoyed a rather difficult relationship for some time. Each needs the other because complex engineering tasks cannot be carried out in an increasingly challenging business environment without an integrated management focus. Engineers are finding they need to take on more complex tasks which include very significant managerial issues. Most engineering faculties have attempted to teach managerial skills in their engineering curricula. However, management education has often been viewed as secondary to technical skills and hence does not encompass the integrated range of skills needed. This has not motivated students to become interested in and committed to the management aspects of their future profession with the result that management education for engineers remains an enigma. This paper considers some of the contemporary literature on teaching management to engineers. Some ideas are discussed outlining possible research which will be carried out and reported on by the authors, aimed at documenting current shortcomings with a view to developing a more effective future strategy for engineering management education.
2012-08-06T21:30:00Z
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2012-08-14T04:42:05Z
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Accounting for Carbon in Australia – How does a CFO choose the most appropriate accounting approach?
Bryant, Ron
Today’s CFOs are involved in strategy determination and implementation together with their traditional role of reporting and compliance. A factor in the complexity of the CFOs role has been the increase in accounting regulation through standard development as a response to corporate governance challenges over the past 30 years. There has been little research into the choices made by CFOs in accounting methods, especially in the Australian environment. The focus of this paper is to highlight the opportunity to research an accounting area where there is currently much debate and issues around the choice of accounting method and disclosure. This area is accounting for emission trading schemes. Currently there are no accounting standards covering emission trading. This leads to two opportunities, the first is to add to and inform both the academic and professional discussion on how best to develop appropriate standards within Australia. The second relates to researching how CFOs make choices in their accounting methods. This paper explains the background and the opportunity for this research.
2012-08-07T19:15:00Z
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2012-08-14T05:10:06Z
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Coaching for targeted intentional personality change
Martin, Lesley Sue
Intentional targeted personality change is a relatively unexplored research area. Related literature, however, suggests that personality change is likely to be both feasible and desirable in a coaching context, in clients without major psychopathology. This study examines the effects of a 10 week personality change coaching program. Participants were randomly assigned to a personality change coaching group (n=26) or a waitlist control group (n=26). One to one weekly coaching was conducted by psychologists, trained in personality change coaching processes, using resources developed in a previous phase of this research. Participation in the personality coaching program was associated with significant change in client chosen personality facets/sub-traits F(1,9.533, p<.01). The study suggests that intentional targeted personality change can be achieved over a 10 week period.
2012-08-07T18:30:00Z
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2012-08-15T04:22:08Z
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Methodologies of Soliciting Customer Feedback in Clinical Hospital Staff: Understanding What Information to Obtain in Order To Improve Customer Service
Wienholt, Louise
Health services are undergoing a period of dynamic change in the Australian health market, especially relating to creating and maintaining strong relationships between healthcare facilities such as hospitals and the clinicians who utalise and refer patients to their services. This paper outlines a number of key considerations of behavioural determinants of customer relationship management (CRM) including attitude to serve, understanding expectations, quality perceptions, reliability, communication, customisation, recognition, ensuring agreements are met, satisfaction audit and retention. Understanding these factors and how to implement them into healthcare practice will not only identify areas of improvement but also enable organisations to set achievable benchmarks in satisfaction and key performance indicators as part of a quality management system.
2012-08-06T20:45:00Z
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2012-08-16T01:48:06Z
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Can education and training decision makiing be improved using a risk management decision making framework?
Horton, Barry
Current research and literature reviews indicate that Australian organisations do not use consistent and effective decision making processes when undertaking education and training. This paper provides both context and background to underlying training decision making problems in Australia and introduces an innovative training decision making model for research and testing. The model to be tested develops a heuristic training decision making sequence based on risk management theory and is supported by the International Risk Management Standard ISO 3100:2009. The application of risk management logic to training decisions enables the development and testing of a unique decision making sequence that ranks and prioritises organisational training approaches in accordance with perceived levels of organisation risk. A defined series of training matrixes represent the decisions that embody the heuristic training model and facilitate a meta- analysis approach to organisational training needs. The potential effectiveness of the heuristic risk management decision making model will determined by testing data obtained from a stratified sample group of organisational mangers in NSW TAFE institutions and NSW Public Health.
2012-08-07T20:45:00Z
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NSW Public-Hospital Dietitians and Their Workplace: True Love or a Marriage of Convenience?
Milosavljevic, Marianna
This study examines how NSW public-hospital dietitians are affected by their workplace. Hospitals have undergone rapid changes over the last 50 years and 43% of the dietetic workforce is located within this environment. Three different approaches were used to examine this topic: a direct overt observational study; a cross-sectional NSW wide survey; and in-depth interviews. The major findings were: the majority of tasks undertaken by the hospital dietitian occurred away from the patient; there were low to moderate levels of burnout experienced by dietitians, but level or years of experience and the type of hospital affected burnout levels. Dietitians sought validation from their workplace from five sources: knowledge acquisition, relationships, culture, role clarity and self-attributes. The conclusion was the ‘marriage’ between dietitians and the workplace is initially based on true love, but the success of the union relies on an ongoing commitment, compromise and adaptation.
2012-08-08T17:15:00Z
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2013-09-04T02:03:42Z
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The influence of national culture on third party logistics outsourcing: An Asia-Pacific focus
Krishnan, Stephanie
Smark, Ciorstan
Pepper, Matthew
This work aims to contribute to the theory with regards to the effects of national cultural influence on the decision-making and implementation process of logistics outsourcing within multi-national corporations in the Asia-Pacific region. By attempting to investigate one of the areas where relationships fail, this paper aims to identify where organisations utilising 3PL services can gain insight into the effect of culture on success in company relationships, and be able to use this to gain a competitive advantage through outsourcing relationships.
2013-08-07T20:50:00Z
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2013-09-04T02:29:56Z
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Application of an Input-Output Econometric Model to Investigate the Illawarra Economy
Masouman, Ashkan
There are a number of tools that regional analysts apply to analyse and forecast the economy of a region. Two of the most commonly used tools are input-output (IO) modelling and econometric modelling. However, the standalone IO models are static and have restrictive assumptions of constant returns to scale. On the other hand, the econometric models lack the detailed sectoral disaggregation of IO models. As a result the integrated econometric input-output (EC-IO) modelling attempts to consider the timeline of the economy through time series in order to provide a more accurate picture of the dynamic characteristics of structural changes in a regional economy. This paper applies the integrated EC-IO modelling to the Illawarra region of New South Wales, in order to achieve higher level of accuracy in analysis and forecasting the structural changes in the regional economy. JEL Classification: R15, C 53, C67.
2013-08-07T17:15:00Z
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2013-09-04T02:37:18Z
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Can education and training decision making be improved using a risk-management decision-making framework?
Horton, Barry
Current research and literature reviews indicate that Australian organisations do not use consistent and effective decision making processes when undertaking education and training. This paper provides both context and background to underlying training decision making problems in Australia and introduces an innovative training decision making model for research and testing. The model to be tested develops a heuristic training decision making sequence based on risk management theory and is supported by the International Risk Management Standard ISO 3100:2009. The application of risk management logic to training decisions enables the development and testing of a unique decision making sequence that ranks and prioritises organisational training approaches in accordance with perceived levels of organisation risk. A defined series of training matrixes embody the heuristic training model and facilitate a meta- analysis approach to organisational training needs. The effectiveness of the heuristic risk management decision making model will be tested by using a two phase research approach. Phase one measures training managers’ decision making confidence levels when they are asked to apply the risk management matrixes to their organisational training decision making. Phase two examines the correlation between variations in training managers’ confidence levels and the perceived effectiveness of the risk management decision making model.
2013-08-08T19:05:00Z
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2013-09-04T02:24:19Z
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The Role of Alignment between Corporate IT and SBU IT in Creating SBU Agility
Queiroz, Magno
Information technology (IT) is considered to be an important enabler of organizational agility. Yet, managers continue to speak of their frustration with IT-based rigidities that hinder responsiveness to market threats and opportunities. This implies that the IT function is not always aligned to the aims of an agile business. Prior research has not investigated this issue in multi-business organizations where strategic business units (SBUs) compete across distinct market segments. To establish synergy across the organization, management defines a corporate IT platform to be shared by SBUs. In contrast, each SBU defines its own IT portfolio to increase local flexibility. This study examines whether the multi-level alignment between SBU IT and corporate IT affects SBU agility. In a survey of 94 multi-business organizations, the study finds that multi-level IT alignment enhances SBU agility and facilitates the alignment between SBU IT and SBU business strategy, which in turn also affects SBU agility.
2013-08-07T21:25:00Z
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2013-09-04T02:46:10Z
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Testing and self-management of cognitive load in accounting. A case example of Zimbabwe university students
Sithole, Seedwell Tanaka Muyako
Previous research using Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has established the importance of integrating a diagram and the relevant text in instructional material. It is widely acknowledged that cognitive load theories play an important part in facilitating the structure of learning materials in physics, biology, mathematics, accounting, and other related disciplines. What has not been established is whether self-management of split attention (separated diagram and explanatory text) by learners has any effect on learning. In Zimbabwe learners have been exposed to a wide range of instructional format. However, the need to improve learning persists. The importance of students taking control of their cognition will be investigated using university accounting students from Zimbabwe. The techniques accounting students can use to manage their cognitive load using spilt attention learning material will be investigated. Analysis of the data using ANOVA which will involve computation of statistical measures to determine the differences between the groups selected.
2013-08-09T18:30:00Z
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2013-09-04T02:49:22Z
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The Australian Corporate Closet, why it’s still so full: Investigating the relationship between sexual orientation (disclosure and concealment) and Heterosexism and how this affects GLBT employee well-being
Smith, Ian
There is minimal research on the effects of ‘outness’ (sexual orientation disclosure) on the work experiences of GLBT employees. Few international empirically sound studies from the literature have compared the variable of outness, its effect on workplace heterosexism, and job satisfaction. To date, no Australian studies have compared the variables of workplace heterosexism, the psychological well-being of GLBT employees and their general life and job satisfaction. Due to the stigmatised status of sexual minority members in our society, GLBT employees hold varied attitudes and value systems regarding their sexual identity. Evidence suggests that GLBT employees apply sexual identity management strategies to manage the stress involved in disclosing ones sexual orientation. This study intends to examine hypothesised relationships of sexual orientation disclosure and concealment; heterosexism (workplace discrimination) and these effects on psychological wellbeing, with regard to psychological well-being, mental health, job satisfaction and satisfaction with life.
2013-08-08T17:40:00Z
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