Concerns an Australian working person’s view of the ability of the workforce to improve its productivity. Just under three‐quarters of the respondents believed they could improve their individual productivity but that an even greater percentage of the workforce could improve its...

Plateaued employees can present problems for managers in that they do not respond to the usual motivators, such as promotion or career development. For this reason, managers need to understand something of the psychology of the plateaued worker in order to be able to get good, consistent and...

This study was conducted in the headquarters of a major local government in Western Australia. The emphasis of the study was to measure any differences that may exist between managers and non‐managers concerning their desire for different motivators, levels of job satisfaction and areas of job...