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Johari, Johanim; Yahya, Khulida Kirana – European Journal of Training and Development, 2016
Purpose: The primary purpose of this study is to assess the predicting role of job characteristics on job performance. Dimensions in the job characteristics construct are skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Further, work involvement is tested as a mediator in the hypothesized link. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Occupational Information, Public Service Occupations, Job Skills
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Northcraft, Gregory B.; Schmidt, Aaron M.; Ashford, Susan J. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
The study described here tested a model of how characteristics of the feedback environment influence the allocation of resources (time and effort) among competing tasks. Results demonstrated that performers invest more resources on tasks for which higher quality (more timely and more specific) feedback is available; this effect was partially…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Job Performance, Volunteers, Resource Allocation
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Hall, Julie; Morgan, Robert L.; Salzberg, Charles L. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
We investigated the effects of preference and degree of match on job performance of four 19 to 20-year-old young adults with developmental disabilities placed in community-based job conditions. We identified high-preference, high-matched and low-preference, low-matched job tasks using a video web-based assessment program. The job matching…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Job Skills, Job Performance, Young Adults
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England, Lenore; Fu, Li; Miller, Stephen – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Organization of electronic resources workflow is critical in the increasingly complicated and complex world of library management. A simple organizational tool that can be readily applied to electronic resources management (ERM) is the use of checklists. Based on the principles discussed in The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, the…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, College Libraries, Library Administration, Check Lists
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Colom, Roberto; Martinez-Molina, Agustin; Shih, Pei Chun; Santacreu, Jose – Intelligence, 2010
Multitasking performance is relevant in everyday life and job analyses highlight the influence of multitasking over several diverse occupations. Intelligence is the best single predictor of overall job performance and it is also related to individual differences in multitasking. However, it has been shown that working memory capacity (WMC) is…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Personnel Selection, Job Performance, Short Term Memory
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Goomas, David T.; Ludwig, Timothy D. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2007
Under baseline conditions warehouse stockers (n = 23) could earn incentives if their team performed above the team quota of 18 cases stocked per hour. They were also subject to disciplinary action if they failed to regularly meet individual stocking quotas. In spite of these contingencies the stockers failed to receive bonus payments most of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Discipline, Incentives, Job Performance
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Lagnado, David A.; Newell, Ben R.; Kahan, Steven; Shanks, David R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
In multiple-cue learning (also known as probabilistic category learning) people acquire information about cue-outcome relations and combine these into predictions or judgments. Previous researchers claimed that people can achieve high levels of performance without explicit knowledge of the task structure or insight into their own judgment…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cues, Performance, Prediction
Lockitt, Bill – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
Project management covers a wide range of skills and is one of the best forms of staff development available for the development of skills by doing. This publication is for the use of staff involved in e-learning development projects. An introduction and overview includes discussion of e-learning projects in general and why they are undertaken;…
Descriptors: Management by Objectives, Task Analysis, Job Performance, Job Analysis
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Bhatarah, Parveen; Ward, Geoff; Tan, Lydia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In 3 experiments, participants saw lists of 16 words for free recall with or without a 6-digit immediate serial recall (ISR) task after each word. Free recall was performed under standard visual silent and spoken-aloud conditions (Experiment 1), overt rehearsal conditions (Experiment 2), and fixed rehearsal conditions (Experiment 3). The authors…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis, Word Recognition, Short Term Memory