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The State Of Representative Participation In Australia: Where To Next?, Raymond Markey
The State Of Representative Participation In Australia: Where To Next?, Raymond Markey
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
The article first examines the rationale for representative participation, and the circumstances under which it has spread internationally. It then surveys the existing data for representative participation in Australia, and presents a case for legislation to introduce a generalised system of German-style works councils. The paper concludes that the first step towards this end should be the instigation of a major research agenda to discover more regarding the elements of historical and contemporary practice which have accounted for success and failure in representative participation in Australia.
Support For Asynchronous Interaction In Group Experiential Learning, Joseph Meloche, Helen Hasan, Angelo Papakosmas
Support For Asynchronous Interaction In Group Experiential Learning, Joseph Meloche, Helen Hasan, Angelo Papakosmas
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
To be relevant to the constantly changing work patterns of the real world, effective learning in universities often occurs in small groups facilitated by collaborative environments where participants are dynamically involved in purposeful activities. The research described in this paper is an investigation of purposeful group work devised for experiential learning where a variety of socio-technical tools were used to support asynchronous tasks and communication among the learners. In order to explore the complexity of this collaborative activity a distinctive inductive research approach has been adopted using reflective developmental methods. The data collection and the analysis part of the research …
Envisioning Communication From The Edge, David Mckie, Judy M. Motion, Debashish Munshi
Envisioning Communication From The Edge, David Mckie, Judy M. Motion, Debashish Munshi
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
In mapping movements on the edge, we explore how scholars redefine the boundaries of what constitutes research and practice. In The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits, a book that already promises to be one of the seminal business books of the 21 st century, C. K. Prahalad (2004) recounts his difficulties in finding a journal to publish the research that informed his book. Thanks to his earlier success with a prizewinning bestseller on more conventional business strategy, Competing for the Future (Hamel & Prahalad, 1994), Prahalad went on to find a book publisher despite …
Flexmix: A General Framework For Finite Mixture Models And Latent Glass Regression In R, Friedrich Leisch
Flexmix: A General Framework For Finite Mixture Models And Latent Glass Regression In R, Friedrich Leisch
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
FlexMix implements a general framework for fitting discrete mixtures of regression models in the R statistical computing environment: three variants of the EM algorithm can be used for parameter estimation, regressors and responses may be multivariate with arbitrary dimension, data may be grouped, e.g., to account for multiple observations per individual, the usual formula interface of the S language is used for convenient model specification, and a modular concept of driver functions allows to interface many different types of regression models. Existing drivers implement mixtures of standard linear models, generalized linear models and model-based clustering. FlexMix provides the E-step and …