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Eighty‐eight clerical employees completed a checklist measuring ‘fatigue’ at hourly intervals over each day of the work‐week. The consistency between the results of this and other studies suggests that the progress of fatigue in eight‐hour work situations has a general form, although large individual differences occur over both the work‐day and work‐week. Individual variation seems to be the result of motivational and attitudinal factors, at least in part. Similarity of effects for four‐ and five‐day‐week employees suggests cyclic patterns involving learning emerge in clerical work settings. Measures of fatigue were also related to employee job satisfaction and employer satisfaction with performance, as well as 15 other variables referring to individual characteristics or condi

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00331.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Studies on the effects of discussing an individual's strengths and weaknesses in job performance during appraisal interviews have come to widely differing conclusions. Some of the possible reasons for this are discussed and taken account of in this investigation of appraisal interviews in a government department. Interviews perceived as containing varying degrees of performance feedback (both positive and negative, positive only, negative only and none at all) were compared on a number of variables indicating the effectiveness of the appraisal. The results indicate that interviews perceived as containing a balanced review of the individual's strengths and weaknesses in performance achieved the greatest positive effect overall, while those containing no feedback whatsoever achieved relatively little.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00332.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Two forms of the Insel&Moos' Work Environment Scale (WES) were administered to 589 Navy enlisted men and women, one at the beginning of a 14‐week paramedical training course (assessing expectations of what the occupational training environment would be like) and one eight weeks later (assessing perceptions of what the environment was actually like). Ten of the factors extracted from student responses to each form were rotated to simple structure and scales were constructed to assess six factors which were represented in the responses to both forms, accounting for 70 per cent of the common variance, and also a seventh factor which was represented only in responses to the second form, accounting for an additional 13 per cent of the common variance. The average interscale correlation and split‐half reliability for the factor scales were approximately 0·21 and 0·72 for both forms. Generality and potential uses of the WES in occupational training environments are disc

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00333.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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One reason for Annett,et al.'s technique of hierarchical task analysis not being more widely adopted is that would‐be analysts have failed to understand the concept of ‘redescription’. It is argued that the original tabular format proposed for recording such analyses has not facilitated this understanding. For example, the table does not enable easy examination of the redescription of a superordinate operation, nor is there a clear separation between the basic task analysis and hypotheses proposed to ensure operator competence. A revised format is proposed to overcome these objections and is illustrated using a complex planning

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00334.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Most training programmes seem to have a short time perspective. They are geared to train a person for his first job, but then essentially leave him on his own. It is argued that, by clustering jobs and identifying requirements common to a number of jobs, and then by structuring the training programme so as to enable the person to transfer knowledge in these common areas from job to job, it would be possible to prepare a person for his whole work career by training him for a number of jobs at once. Strategies and approaches are discussed and evaluated, and suggestions are made. In general, this approach seems not only feasible, but practical, and is worthy of further consideration.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00335.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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A whole method of training mildly retarded young women to thread an industrial sewing machine was compared with a pure‐part and a progressive‐part method. All three methods produced comparable learning, as defined by performance on the complete task one month after initial training. However, part methods were markedly superior to the whole method; fewer errors were made during trials to criterion and less training time was required. Although the progressive‐part method produced satisfactory training with least errors and in the fastest time, differences between progressive‐part and pure‐part procedures were not statistically si

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00336.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Behaviour and the Physical Environment: Case Studies in Psychology and Ergonomics. By H. C. W. STOCKBRIDGE.Workers' Participation in Industry. By MICHAEL POOLEManpower Planning for Canadians. By LARRY F. MOORE.Leadership and Effective Performance. By A. SREEKUMAR MENON.Realities of Social Research: An Empirical Study of British Sociologists. By JENNIFER PLATT.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00337.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY