Timely, targeted, and informative messages can motivate young workers to continue pursuing their qualifications. Employers can adopt these social science tips to better support students at work.
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Social science enhances how people respond to cyber security threats, by helping individuals overcome the biases exploited in cyber attacks. A novel approach to cyber security training increases staff self-efficacy when responding to malicious messages.
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I reflect on an example of how to use results from employee feedback in a productive way. I also cover some technical aspects of project management for our online training game.
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Employers can reduce the number of people dropping-out of vocational training by encouraging students to proactively seek help when they start struggling. Simple but effective communication with practical advice, sent at optimum times, is key.
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How can your business support customers in achieving their goals? Setting goals and making public commitments are ideal ways to encourage behaviour change, whether it’s improving our wellbeing at home, or delivering better services. Here are a few tips from social science.
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I’ve been away a long time and I wanted to restart my series on A Day in Applied Sociology, to shed light on what it’s like to be an applied sociologist. First, I wanted to show you how I manage my public sociology with my paid work. Second, I wanted to reflect on what it’s like learning website and graphic design for business, research and social policy audiences.
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One key task I’ve been working on recently is our sector’s accessibility audit. I’m a member of the disability inclusion steering committee for our organisation. Together with a colleague, we are leading on workplace adjustments.
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In between the trial work I shared with you last time, I’ve also been doing other work, of course, mostly on our communications.
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Quite a lot do, and yet the day ended up not working out quite the way I planned. I had some leave planned from 12:30pm leading into a long weekend. I started off with a meeting that went longer than scheduled, but it was very productive. We’re trying to finalise the message frames that we’re thinking of testing in our online experiment.
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I mostly worked on my project to improve outcomes of people with disability in the workplace. This included acting on some of the recommendations that came from some meetings I attended last week. I also put together a survey for testing some of the message frames that we could use to improve take up of training on disability inclusion.
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