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Canadian accountants: examining workplace learning
Purpose - This paper seeks to examine workplace learning strategies, learning facilitators and learning barriers of public accountants in Canada across three professional levels - trainees, managers, and partners.Design methodology approach - Volunteer participants from public accounting firms in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick completed a demographic survey, a learning activities survey, a learning barriers survey, and a learning facilitators survey. Quantitative analysis provided total scores for key variables and compared these across the three levels.Findings - The paper finds that accountants across different levels use a variety of formal and informal learning strategies, although informal strategies predominate. Accountants encounter numerous facilitators and barriers. There are variations in strategies, barriers and facilitators based on professional level; for example, trainees make more use of e-learning than do either managers or partners.Research limitations implications - Future research could focus on the efficacy of accountants' formal and informal learning strategies as well as how e-learning can be appropriately managed and utilized.Practical implications - Allocation of work and relationships with people are important to the learning process and should be considered in work assignments. One implication is to encourage informal learning and provide appropriate learning activities and feedback so that informal learning is maximized. There could also be more emphasis placed on assisting partners and managers in developing their roles as coaches and mentors.Originality value - The paper provides information on workplace learning for an understudied group of professionals in a Canadian context.
Journal Article
Assessing effects of four interviewer variables on employment interview structure
The purpose of this research was to determine if there were relationships between four interviewer-centric variables and the level of interview structure interviewers applied to their interviews. The survey was designed to elicit individual respondent behaviors and attitudes related to these four variables, as well as ascertain the level of structure they employed. The four independent variables were: the desire on behalf of interviewers for flexibility; the perceived importance of interviewer training; the self-confidence of interviewers in their own skills; and the amount of training respondents had received. The dependent variable was the level of interview structure. Selected scales in the survey were designed to determine level of structure as defined in the research literature. The survey instrument was a Likert-type five-point electronic questionnaire, and participation was invited from over 2000 human resource practitioners across Canada, with the final completed surveys comprising 230 respondents (test power = .999). Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that desire for flexibility (p=.000) and perceived importance of training (p=.000) were statistically significant with a negative (inverse) relationship to structure. Interviewer self-confidence (p=.151) was not statistically significant and had no measurable impact on structure. For amount of interviewer training, post hoc tests indicated interviewers with the largest amount of training (75+ hours) were significantly (p=.014) more in favor of structured interviews than were those with much lower levels of training. Therefore, the first, second, and fourth null hypotheses were rejected, and the third null hypothesis was retained. Implications are that some interviewer-centric factors do have an effect on interview structure. Recommendations include further study of factors that may impact employment interview structure.
Dissertation
A complication of intensive care
Treatment with high-dose intravenous therapy is generally sufficient as the passage of organisms is thought to disrupt the blood-ocular barrier, although in severe cases intravitreal antibiotics and vitrectomy are advocated. 2 3 As the condition is uncommon there are no controlled data suggesting that either intravitreal antibiotics or vitrectomy is better than more conservative treatment. In recent years the most common organisms causing metastatic endophthalmitis have become Gram-positive bacteria, replacing Neisseria meningitidis, the incidence of which decreased in the 1940s with the introduction of antibiotics.
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