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Title: Improving Personality Assessment: Facets, Response Models, and Utility.

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Personality traits are among the most widely studied individual difference variables in psychological research. Numerous primary and meta-analytic studies have established their importance (...)

Abstract: There has been almost no recent formal economic analysis of the WTP of British consumers for organic products. Given the rising demand for organic products on one hand and the decline in the organically farmed area in the UK on the other hand, this is an important topic to address. The (...)

Abstract: Groundwater is becoming a more widely regulated resource, yet the impacts of groundwater markets are not well understood. With an application to a groundwater basin in southern California, I develop a theoretical and simulation model of groundwater trading to estimate the gains from (...)

The development of platform-based businesses (like Uber), which utilise on-call contingent labour to do the work, has led some commentators to proclaim that traditional “jobs” as we know them will come to an end. Instead of being employees, workers will support themselves as flexible, free (...)

Title: What shapes work design and how work design shapes employee wellbeing

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There is already considerable evidence around the positive effects good work design for a wide range of individual and organisational outcomes. But although we know a great deal about how (...)

Title: A Product of Their Environment: Contextual Challenges Faced by Modern Teams

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As organizations expand across time and space, teams are faced with increasing task complexity ranging from completing creative tasks with dispersed team members to safely sending (...)

Title:Advice taking and advice resistance in groups

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According to conventional wisdom, advice is a simple and effective means to improve the quality of judgments and decisions. Research on advice taking supports this notion, showing that decision-makers’ accuracy (...)

Abstract: In this presentation, we articulate a distinctively geographical approach to understanding the dynamics of capitalist economies, unpacking the concept from the perspective of an ontology that is grounded in socio-spatial dialectics. We conjecture that there is potential added-value from (...)

Title: Enhancing Diversity via Hiring Practices: Revisiting the use of Second-Stratum Cognitive Abilities

Many organisations believe that hiring a diverse workforce is important for ethical, legal and business reasons. However, one of the most criterion-valid selection tools—the (...)

Step beyond the tangle of red tape and start your research sooner.*

Meet the UWA team who are here to work with researchers and central experts to quickly navigate the formalities of agreements and approvals. The Risk & Legal unit welcome researchers and peers to an informal open (...)

Learn how to: develop a search strategy; identify relevant, scholarly information resources; use tools and techniques to follow the published trail of research in your field, and more.

The not-for-profit sector constitutes a major part of society and the economy, both in Australia and internationally. And yet, as a sector, it remains under-researched.

With the recent arrival of Professor David Gilchrist at UWA, we hope to address this imbalance by creating an (...)

As the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, stated last year in his landmark speech in India, the US and its key partners will strive to build mutually beneficial partnerships to safeguard a peaceful and stable Indo-Pacific in the coming years. This event will bring together foreign policy thought (...)

This public symposium seeks to provide a strategic forum for policymakers, scholars, and business leaders in the region to grapple with the emergence of the “Indo-Pacific” as a regional construct. The economic rise of ASEAN, China, and India will change the existing global political and (...)

Sustainable agricultural intensification practices (SAIPs) have been promoted to improve environmental services and farm productivity in developing countries such as Ethiopia. However, whether implementations of SAIPs in isolation or in combinations increase economic (cost) efficiency of (...)

The Centre for Social Impact UWA is excited to host a public lecture with The Hunger Project. Join to hear their stories of impact from the organisation's global CEO Suzanne Frindt.

Suzanne Mayo Frindt is a leadership expert and President and CEO of The Global Hunger Project, a global (...)

The seminar will give you an overview of:

. Intellectual Property - what it is and why it’s important

. Patenting - what you need to get a patent

. Developing your idea - including sources of funding

. Commercialisation - how to put your ideas to use

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11:00 - SEMINAR - The Interaction of Markets for Temporary and Permanent Water Transfers: An Experimental Analysis

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Abstract: Leading practice of mine closure requires the relinquishment of a site to an agreed post-mine land use that is inclusive of sustainable development principals including environmental, social, and economic outcomes. This practice demands an assessment of options, both positive and negative (...)

Abstract: Water sensitive practices are being widely promoted in many cities with the objective to improve both water quality and liveability. However, to what extent implementing of these practices improves the social welfare of the residents is not known. We contribute to this knowledge gap by (...)