Identification of early leavers from a remote mining community

Syme, Geoffrey J.; Illingworth, D. J.; Eaton, Ernest G.; Kantola, S. J.

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“…Following a similar line of thought, researchers (e.g. Syme at al., 1981) have recently begun to use personality variables in an attempt to understand the psychological dimensions of movement away from remote communities.…”

Section: Forces Motivating/limiting Settlement Of Remote Communitiesmentioning

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“…Perhaps the most fruitful development to date has been the construction of the Environmental Response Inventory (ERI) (Craik and McKechnie, 1977;McKechnie, 1977). Among other things, the ERI has been used to explain and predict the propensity to leave remote communities in Australia's Pilbara region (Syme et al, '1981;Syme et al, 1986), though with somewhat mixed results. (There is, too, a considerable body of literature relating personality variables to adjustment and work performance levels with respect to the extreme and isolated environments of the Arctic and Antarctic: for example, Burke and Bames, 1979;Gunderson, 19~'3;Wright et al, 1963;1967.…”

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Human Resource Management in Remote Communities

Nadkarni

Stening

1989

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

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The post-war period has witnessed an acceleration of resource development projects in many geographically-remote regions of the globe. The liberalization ofinternational trade, decades of relatively stable economic growth and an increasing demand for resources have spurred the establishment of operations in such places. This development has necessarily implied the founding of human settlements in these areas, built with the aim of amassing a stable workforce to serve the needs of the industrial project. Such towns constitute a unique phenomenon in human settlements due largely to the various consequences resulting from a single-industry operation on which the entire community, either directly or indirectly, is dependent for its livelihood. As such, these towns lend themselves to research on a wide range of topics from environmental psychology to town planning to workforce management. This paper undertakes a critical review of the literature dealing with the nature and extent of problems confronting planners and policy makers responsible for establishing settlements in such regions. Particular attention is directed to the difficulties experienced by the occupants ofsuch often inhospitable environments and the implications for human resource management policies.

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Section: Forces Motivating/limiting Settlement Of Remote Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Problems Posed By Demographic and Economic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Resource Management in Remote Communities

Nadkarni

Stening

1989

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

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“…These workers represent a highly mobile group, who are frequently regarded as rowdy, undisciplined, and generally troublesome (Brealey, 1980;Gribbin & Thomson, 1980). The married men, in this case living in designated caravan (i.e., mobile home) parks, are considered the stable component of the work force, although their longevity in the job may be influenced by their wives' and their own views of residential life at the work site (Syme, Illingworth, Eaton, & Kantola, 1981). The mythical characterization of the itinerant workers' wives is of a group riddled with social and mental health problems, conditions either causally linked to or exacerbated by their isolated residence (Burvill, 1975;Jones, Gribbin, & Brealey, 1981;Oeser, 1976).…”

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Environmental evaluations of a “hard hat” residential area in rural Australia

Murdoch

Snyder

Law

et al. 1985

J. Community Psychol.

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As the resource‐rich Australian continent is developed, increasing numbers of temporary townships are established or grafted onto small, dormant population centers to house the work force. This study investigates environmental evaluations in one such rural town. Construction workers and wives living in Nanango, a remote community serving the Tarong Power Station construction site in southeast Queensland, provided survey self‐report ratings of (a) the availability of environmental features, (b) their importance to overall life quality, and (c) the extent to which they bring happiness and satisfaction. Tucker's three‐mode common factor analysis method was used to explicate the individual differences in environmental evaluations among these residents. Nanango is portrayed in terms of independent feature domains associated with locality, natural/physical environs, company‐provided services, home, and government‐felt‐influence. Across the range of environmental features, valence evaluations, reflecting the communality of happiness and satisfaction reactions, seem to originate from a different criterial base than do importance judgments. Tucker's three‐mode factor analysis method appears to be a useful way of partitioning individual differences variance in environmental evaluations.

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Motivation for Reported Involvement in Local Wetland Preservation

Syme

Beven²,

Sumner

1993

Environment and Behavior

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A structural equation model explaining motivation for involvement in local wetland issues was developed and tested. Wetland preservation was used as an example of an ongoing environmental problem in a typical urban neighborhood. The roles of knowledge and disposition in determining an individual's reported activity were hypothesized to be mediated through intermediary variables. The two intermediary variables nominated were derived from the literature on hazard coping, which has been largely ignored by attitudinal research on individual conservation behavior. These intermediary variables were defined as emotive arousal and cognitive problem assessment. The influence of knowledge was hypothesized to be mediated by both arousal and assessment. Disposition was thought to be mediated by arousal alone. In contrast to activism after floods, a positive rather than negative relationship between arousal and reported activity was predicted. The model was supported by the responses of residents after viewing slides of local wetlands. Implications for further research are examined.

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Identification of early leavers from a remote mining community

Cited by 3 publications

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Human Resource Management in Remote Communities

Human Resource Management in Remote Communities

Environmental evaluations of a “hard hat” residential area in rural Australia

Motivation for Reported Involvement in Local Wetland Preservation

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