Papers by Neil Bechervaise
Towards retention: the role of assessment, motivation and prior knowledge in learner completion.
The reader and the family : cross generational studies of readers and their reading
This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the a... more This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Professionalism as reputation capita l: building strategic advantage
Exchanging 'payload knowledge': knowledge exchange in specialised communities of practice
The intrapreneurial future at work: self-organising communities and the imperative of middle management
Reputational capital in consulting communities of practice
Leadership as intellectual capital in expert communities of practice: stereotypes, archetypes and changing organisational demands
The learning driver: issues for provision of traveller information services
Driving home the advantage: innovative ITS for new toll roads
This paper discusses the challenges associated with the innovative use of ITS and traveller infor... more This paper discusses the challenges associated with the innovative use of ITS and traveller information services for a new toll road in Melbourne Australia. While the project is still in the tender evaluation stage, this paper speculates on the likely ITS solutions that can be utilised, not only when the toll road becomes operational but even before the start, by providing some information on other routes, so that drivers learn and understand the metrics available. The paper suggests a number of avenues for research to support the introduction of innovative traveller information systems for toll roads.
The Literacy Game at Palm Island
The Aboriginal Child at School, 1992
The commercially available Pictionary provides the basis for the game described in this paper and... more The commercially available Pictionary provides the basis for the game described in this paper and the outcomes of its introduction to a class of grade three aboriginal students on Palm Island in North Queensland are explore. Suggestions are made for the preparation and extension of the game into classes and topic areas specific to a broad variety of learning situations at both primary and secondary level.
Discrimination Can't Be Taught
English in Australia, 1987
Response to Literature for What? A Brief Blasphemy against the Lack of Effect of Research into Literary Response on Classroom Practice
English in Australia, Dec 1, 1980
Constructing Shakespeare on screen
Professionalism: The Competitive Edge in Successful Project Management
E-Lusive Learning: Innovation, Forced Choice and Reflexivity
Despite continued efforts to engage students through an apparently magical siren call from the co... more Despite continued efforts to engage students through an apparently magical siren call from the computer, e-learning has a substantially lower uptake than its putative parent, the Internet. The exponential generation of unqualified information has become a world-wide clarion-call ...
Shakespeare on Celluloid: Linking Home and School
English in Australia, 1999
Corporate governance, managerial malfeasance and incentive compensation schemes
Corporate governance, shareholder interests and managerial accountability in turbulent times
Something to Believe In: Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of T
Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2022
Measures of absolute and relative poverty are usually constructed around levels of deprivation, d... more Measures of absolute and relative poverty are usually constructed around levels of deprivation, destitution and distress experienced by people with respect to money, goods or means of subsistence. These measures rely, almost exclusively, upon cognitive bias and limited life experience to legitimise discrimination and disadvantage. As (Treloar, in Henwood, 2021) has observed, in spite of widespread interest in the relationship between socio-economics and poverty reduction, confusion reigns as to what exactly predisposes politicians and bureaucrats to consider the implications of the ways in which they think about people in poverty. This paper explores different habits of mind determining the range of socio-economic models impacting Australian Government approaches to Age Pensions and Jobkeeper policy since the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Progressing beyond quantitative analytics to extend our understanding of socio-economic definitions of poverty, insights into alternative ways of thinking are considered in view of innovative applications of financial independence in response to poverty management. Recognising the contrast between traditional political and bureaucratic responses to poverty across the Australian population and more recent recognition of the centrality of the recipients of social welfare, in whatever form it is delivered, the paper provides an analysis of the differences in background and thinking patterns of policy developers and welfare recipients. In consequence of this analysis, the paper identifies a significant, albeit largely unconscious, cognitive bias among policy developers and proposes the need for a substantial change in the way social welfare is conceptualised at a political level.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
From pirates and warlords to accountants and corporate raiders, successful business practice has ... more From pirates and warlords to accountants and corporate raiders, successful business practice has always incorporated a degree of volatility. At the same time, business leaders have too frequently neglected social responsibility in their pursuit of expanded reach, market advantage and, ultimately, increased profit. In a climate of immediate economic uncertainty, the need for responsible practice has become central to recovery from an ongoing global recession. Strategic differences between commercial, moral and social entrepreneurs point to the need for a more integrated theory of entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurial activity is based in sound moral principles. As a consequence, this paper observes that exploitation, corruption and criminality may masquerade as business in the short term but are unsustainable in the longer term because they detract from the common good. Instead, it is argued, innovative business is good business when it generates a net increase in social capital. In consequence, effective definitions of entrepreneurship must be grounded in social advantage from which economic advantage must necessarily arise. Identifying entrepreneurial activity ranging from criminal through opportunistic to well-intentioned and visionary, this paper explores the increasing demand for transparency in business activity, the necessity for a sound moral position undergirding innovation within a culture of entrepreneurship and the complexity of maintaining a socially responsible vision when minor departures might seem to assure profit -stability. Ultimately, when issues of accountability and net benefit are accepted as measures of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial activity, then good business generates a net increase in social capital.
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