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Peer reviewedGerber, Rod; Velde, Christine – Journal of Vocational Education and Training: The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1996
Phenomenographic analysis of written statements of 52 clerical-administrative workers revealed five distinct conceptions of competence: (1) basic skills; (2) essential knowledge about a job; (3) personal attributes; (4) efficient work; and (5) flexible, holistic thinking. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrators, Clerical Workers, Competence, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedVelde, Christine – Journal of Vocational Education and Training: The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1997
A survey of 52 administrators and clerical-administrative personnel in Australia found that clerical training was acquired largely on the job; only one-third regularly update skills; 39.3% perceived assessment to be competency based; and a focus on technical skills was counter to employers' emphasis on interpersonal/communication skills. (SK)
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Competence, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Haines, Janet; Wilson, George V. – Psychological Test Bulletin, 1988
A factor analysis was conducted on the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory-Adult Short Form using 237 college students and 43 female office workers in Australia. Factors were found corresponding with three of the four subscales: general self, social self-peers, and home-parents (family). No factor related to the school-academic (work) subscale. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Clerical Workers, College Students, Factor Analysis
Download full textBlackmore, Jill – 1986
Implicit in the human capital approach of 20th-century educational rhetoric in Australia was the belief that schools imparted vocationally useful cognitive skills beyond basic literacy and numeracy. These skills were believed to be transferable to the workplace and to increase the productivity of the individual to the benefit of society. For…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Females
Wilson, Brian G., Ed.; Byrne, Eileen M., Ed. – 1987
A survey of all staff of the University of Queensland was conducted to gather: information on the participation of women in the university, particularly with regard to structural barriers and direct or indirect discriminatory practices that disadvantage women more than men; and information on opinions regarding the standing of women in the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Clerical Workers, College Faculty, Employed Women
Dumbrell, Tom – 1998
Australia's personal and other services industry is the sixth smallest of the 17 industry divisions in numbers employed. The industry, a collection of quite diverse businesses and services in the public and private sectors, has three subdivisions: personal services, other services, and private households employing staff. The employment level has…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Clergy, Clerical Workers, Cosmetology
Goodear, Lyn – 2000
In 1997, the South West Institute of TAFE (Technical and Further Education) in Victoria, Australia, and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology jointly developed an online workplace delivery model for administrative and clerical workers. The model was aligned with national standards encompassing the formal qualifications for four certificates in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Clerical Workers
