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Job Interview Essentials, Matt Mcginniss Sep 2013

Job Interview Essentials, Matt Mcginniss

Matt McGinniss

Why should we hire you? How do you handle pressure? What are your strengths and weaknesses? Why do people get nervous during job interviews when they’re asked questions like these? The answer is simple. People feel nervous because they know they’re being judged. They’re being judged on their personality, their body language, the logic behind their responses and the quality of their clothes. This is why extensive preparation before a job interview and the implementation of strategic answers is vital for your chances of success.


Empirically Derived Competency Profiles For Australian Business Graduates And Their Implications For Industry And Business, Denise Jackson, Elaine Chapman Sep 2013

Empirically Derived Competency Profiles For Australian Business Graduates And Their Implications For Industry And Business, Denise Jackson, Elaine Chapman

Denise Jackson

Two hundred and eleven Australian employers were surveyed to produce a set of business graduate competency profiles which accurately reflect the current needs of Australia employers. Three distinct clusters (or ‘types’) of graduates were identified: the ‘Manager’, ‘People Person’ and ‘Business Analyst’. They provide an overview of the required balance of cognitive and affective competencies important in the modern Australian business graduate. The preferred ‘types’ align with recent literature in the area of employability skills and historical research on managerial competencies. Desired competency profiles did not differ significantly across a range of background and demographic characteristics or business activity/work area …


Maintaining Momentum: The Challenge Of A Workplace Physical Activity Program To Sustain Motivation And Activity, Pascal Scherrer, Nadine Henley, Lynnaire Sheridan, Ruth Sibson, Maria Ryan Aug 2013

Maintaining Momentum: The Challenge Of A Workplace Physical Activity Program To Sustain Motivation And Activity, Pascal Scherrer, Nadine Henley, Lynnaire Sheridan, Ruth Sibson, Maria Ryan

Maria M Ryan

Physical inactivity is one of the major contributors to ill health and, hence, productivity costs in Australia. While the workplace is increasingly recognised as an appropriate site for promoting healthy behaviour, the effectiveness of workplace physical activity programs remains to be demonstrated, particularly with regards to participants’ motivation to achieve sustained positive physical activity behaviour change. This exploratory study examined how participation in the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) affected participants’ motivation to sustain regular physical activity. The GCC is a commercially operated four-month program based on the 10,000 steps-a-day concept. Three distinct phases in terms of participant motivation were identified …


Entrepreneurial Motivation, Scott Shane, Edwin Locke, Christopher Collins May 2013

Entrepreneurial Motivation, Scott Shane, Edwin Locke, Christopher Collins

Christopher J Collins

Recent research on entrepreneurship has focused largely on macro-level environmental forces. Although researchers adopting this focus have rightly criticized much of the existing empirical research on the role of human motivation in entrepreneurship, we believe that the development of entrepreneurship theory requires consideration of the motivations of people making entrepreneurial decisions. To provide a road map for researchers interested in this area, we discuss the major motivations that prior researchers have suggested should influence the entrepreneurial process, as well as suggest some motivations that are less commonly studied in this area. In addition to outlining the major reasons for exploring …


Contemporary Issues In Employment Relations—A Roundtable, David Lewin, Adrienne Eaton, Thomas Kochan, David Lipsky, Daniel Mitchell, Paula Voos Jan 2013

Contemporary Issues In Employment Relations—A Roundtable, David Lewin, Adrienne Eaton, Thomas Kochan, David Lipsky, Daniel Mitchell, Paula Voos

David Lewin

For the 2006 LERA research volume, leading scholars were assembled in a roundtable for the purpose of eliciting their views on key contemporary industrial relations issues. The roundtable members were Adrienne E. Eaton, professor and director of labor extension in the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations; Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor of Management and director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the MIT Sloan School of Management; David B. Lipsky, the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution and former dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University; …


O*Net's National Perspective On The Greening Of The World Of Work, Erich Dierdorff, Jennifer Norton, Christina Gregory, David Rivkin, Phil Lewis Dec 2012

O*Net's National Perspective On The Greening Of The World Of Work, Erich Dierdorff, Jennifer Norton, Christina Gregory, David Rivkin, Phil Lewis

Erich C. Dierdorff

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