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Tittelbach, Danielle; Fields, Lanny; Alvero, Alicia M. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2008
Performance feedback is one of the most widely used tools in organizational settings. To date, little research has been conducted focusing on comparisons of the differential effects of the sources, frequency, or media used for feedback on both the quality and quantity of performance. This research investigated the effects of different feedback…
Descriptors: Office Occupations, Feedback (Response), Job Performance, Performance Based Assessment
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This publication presents experimental estimates of completion and attrition rates for the latest commencing apprentice and trainee cohorts. Such up-to-date estimates are possible by applying a "life tables" methodology to simple cross tabulations of commencements, completions and cancellations/withdrawals. The resultant cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Trainees, Apprenticeships
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Frisque, Deloise A.; Kolb, Judith A. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2008
This study examines the effects of ethics training on the attitudes, knowledge-based scores, and analysis of ethical dilemmas among office professionals. A treatment- and control-group design was used with variables of interest measured before, immediately after, and ninety days following completion of a six-hour ethics training workshop. A…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Transfer of Training, Ethics, Training
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Keith, Nina; Ericsson, K. Anders – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2007
The concept of deliberate practice was introduced to explain exceptional performance in domains such as music and chess. We apply deliberate practice theory to intermediate-level performance in typing, an activity that many people pursue on a regular basis. Sixty university students with several years typing experience participated in laboratory…
Descriptors: Office Occupations, Drills (Practice), College Students, Interviews
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Jayasundera, Tamara; Hanson, Andrew R. – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2012
For recent high school graduates, life is tough. In the past year, one in four young high school graduates was unemployed and over half were underemployed. In the past decade, recent high school graduates' wages have fallen by 12 percent to just $19,400 annually in 2011, below the poverty threshold for a family of four. The downward plight of high…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Employment, Education Work Relationship, Job Training
Haythorne, Marion – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2008
This Transfer Guide provides students in Legal Administrative Assistant programs in any of the public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia the information they need to transfer credit acquired in onsite and/or online courses between institutions.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Transfer Policy, Articulation (Education)
Bean, Robert – Canadian Review of Art Education: Research and Issues, 2007
In this article, the author shares the idea behind his photography exhibition called "Verbatim." "Verbatim" is comprised of digital images made with a flatbed scanner. The prints are "contact images" that remember and forget the earlier technological processes of photography and typewriting. Photography, typing, and phonographic writing…
Descriptors: Art Products, Photography, Office Occupations, Technology
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Culig, Kathryn M.; Dickinson, Alyce M.; Lindstrom-Hazel, Debra; Austin, John – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2008
The effects of workstation changes and a performance management (PM) package on seven typing postures were examined for seven office workers. Workstation adjustments were implemented first. Two participants increased five safe postures by 50% or more. The effects of a PM package on postures that did not improve by 50% were then examined using a…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Workstations, Office Occupations, Work Environment
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Gravina, Nicole; Austin, John; Schoedtder, Lori; Loewy, Shannon – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of self-monitoring on safe positioning of individuals performing a typing task and an assembly task using a multiple baseline design across behaviors and tasks. The study took place in an analogue office setting with seven college student participants. The dependent variable was the…
Descriptors: Office Occupations, Occupational Safety and Health, College Students, Human Factors Engineering
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This annual publication provides a summary of training activity in apprenticeships and traineeships in Australia, including information on training rates, completion rates, attrition rates, training within the trades and duration of training. The figures in this publication are derived from the National Apprentice and Trainee Collection no.63…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Trainees, Apprenticeships
Stolz, Stefanie, Ed.; Gonon, Philipp, Ed. – Peter Lang Bern, 2012
In this collected edition, globalization and its consequences on vocational education systems are described and, at the same time, combined with the question of whether new phenomena of inclusion but also of exclusion are produced. Inclusion and exclusion are differentiations that predominate in all kinds of (vocational education) systems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Learner Engagement, Higher Education
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Wohldmann, Erica L.; Healy, Alice F.; Bourne, Lyle E., Jr. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Two experiments explored the benefits to retention and transfer conferred by mental practice. During familiarization, participants typed 4-digit numbers and took an immediate typing test on both old and new numbers. Participants then typed old 4-digit numbers, either physically or mentally, with either a different response configuration or the…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Experiments, Retention (Psychology), Psychomotor Skills
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Tittelbach, Danielle; DeAngelis, Maureen; Sturmey, Peter; Alvero, Alicia M. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2007
This study evaluated the effects of feedback, task clarification and goal-setting on office behaviors and customer service of ten undergraduate participants that served as university advisors. A multiple baseline design was implemented across three target behaviors: client greeting, front-desk behaviors, and punctuality. During intervention the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Objectives, Feedback (Response), Supervisors
Morrison, James L. – Balance Sheet, 1974
Business educators must make students aware of the pitfalls in the current move toward office specialization in the word processing movement. The adoption of technological methodology can cause a human trade-off in which people become mere agents of machines. Business educators must begin to emphasize the needs of individuals. (SC)
Descriptors: Business Education, Humanization, Office Occupations, Office Occupations Education
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Collins, L. M. – Business Education Forum, 1973
Descriptors: Office Machines, Office Occupations, Office Occupations Education, Shorthand
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