A conceptual model identifying apartment owners' attitude formation towards solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption

PurposeThis paper addresses the current lack of solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption by Australian apartment dwellers by proposing a conceptual model that identifies and integrates the factors influencing owners' attitudes towards PV adoption.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual model, which this paper terms the apartment-based solar adoption (ASA) model, is developed by applying motivation–opportunity–ability (MOA) theory to relevant findings in property development, green energy and strata governance literature.FindingsThe ASA model demonstrates the process by which an apartment-owning consumer may progress from considering solar PV adoption to recommending the action to their strata property's Owners' Committee (OC). It incorporates three motivational drivers (pragmatic considerations, perceived values and perceived social norms), three conditional mediators (location accessibility, resource availability and decision-making conditions) and three requirements from the consumer (actual and perceived knowledge, the ability to participate in decision-making and social connections and status).Research limitations/implicationsThis article contributes originality to research on two counts. Firstly, it provides a conceptual framework of specific relevance to issues concerning solar PV adoption, and secondly, it offers a systematic means for research into strata governance decision-making. Further research is required to develop the means with which to utilise the model prescriptively and measure longitudinal effects, such as ongoing trends in apartment owners' motivations. Further research is also recommended into how the ASA model may be utilised to identify generalisable consumer typologies among apartment owners.Practical implicationsThe ASA model may assist building maintenance providers in developing and marketing solar PV services tailored to apartment residents' requirements and enhance strata managers' ability to inform and guide apartment owners. In turn, property developers would be able to review apartment-based solar projects, measure their increased value and decreased energy costs and incorporate this information when planning future developments.Social implicationsThe ASA model may provide a template for apartment owners and owners' corporations considering solar PV for their property. Public policymakers could also refer to the model to incentivise apartment-based solar PV adoption, whether through designing local information campaigns, developing financial incentives or mitigating identified regulatory barriers. By facilitating solar PV adoption in Australian apartment housing, the model may ensure sustainable post-carbon energy consumption for Australia's housing stock and act as an example for high-density housing development internationally.Originality/valueThe ASA model addresses the many drivers and barriers known to affect solar PV adoption by apartment owners, presenting a framework on which to arrange these factors and outline their causal relationships. This framework may inform strata properties' future solar PV adoption initiatives by incorporating their specific physical characteristics, stakeholder dynamics and institutional structure. It also consolidates and provides generalisability to the concepts established in current literature.

Selection for Fit

We review person-organization fit theory and research on selection and recruitment, and also highlight practical recommendations. The article is framed around explaining how and why people who are well matched to their organization experience optimal psychological reactions and performance. We address five key challenges to person-organization fit research and provide a brief overview of the critical distinction between “fitting in” decisions linked to the attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) model and day-to-day forces linked to “doing well” at work. Additionally, we organize the “fit on” domain into a parsimonious set of fundamental motivational constructs, highlighting a taxonomic perspective that broadly captures the “fit on” purposeful work goals (e.g., achievement, autonomy, communion, and status; Barrick et al. 2013 ) to enhance our understanding as to the nature of the joint nonlinear person-organization effects. We conclude by reviewing research findings using this organizing framework to systematically build knowledge to advance theory, concluding with practical implications for best management practices.

De nachtmerrie van elke werkgever

Organisaties kunnen veel schade ondervinden van negatieve eigenschappen van werknemers, vooral als deze werknemers zich in belangrijke posities bevinden. In dit artikel worden drie zogenoemde 'nachtmerrietrekken' beschreven waar organisaties veel hinder van kunnen ondervinden, te weten: lage Integriteit, lage Consciëntieusheid en lage Verdraagzaamheid. Allereerst zullen de effecten van deze nachtmerrietrekken, de zogeheten 'Three Nightmare Traits' (TNT), afzonderlijk en in combinatie met de overige drie HEXACO-persoonlijkheidsdimensies besproken worden. Daarna zal met behulp van het 'Situatie-Trek-Opbrengst Activatie' (STOA) model uitgelegd worden hoe mensen situaties die bij hun persoonlijkheid passen selecteren (situatieactivatie), hoe sommige persoonlijkheidstrekken wel en andere trekken niet geactiveerd worden in situaties (trekactivatie) en wat voor opbrengsten er wel en niet geassocieerd worden met de activatie van de drie nachtmerrietrekken in deze situaties (opbrengstactivatie). Vervolgens zal met een uitgebreid Attractie-Selectie-Attritie (ASA) model de effecten van de TNT tijdens de loopbaan besproken worden, waarbij tevens een overzicht gegeven zal worden van de maatregelen die organisaties kunnen nemen om te voorkomen dat personen die minder integer, consciëntieus en verdraagzaam zijn, veel schade aan de organisatie zullen berokkenen.

Lessons from Velas : Assessment of Eco-tourism asa Model for Conservation in Konkan

The potential of ecotourism in the economic and social development and its potential to conserve andnurture natural resources of the region, have been validated in many programs in the world. While thegovernment of India has lately been using this term profusely in its Incredible India campaigns, internalacceptance by the state tourism boards towards it seems to be weak. This paper studies the Velas model ofecotourism and compares it with that in Murud. Both the places being on the Konkan coast in Maharashtra,offer a similar situation for study. Using observation and interviews, the two villages were studied andcompared. The paper analyses the reasons of success at Velas and offers recommendations for Murud.

Data conflicts in fishery models: incorporating hydroacoustic data into the Prince William Sound Pacific herring assessment model

Hulson, P-J. F., Miller, S. E., Quinn, T. J. II, Marty, G. D., Moffitt, S. D., and Funk, F. 2008. Data conflicts in fishery models: incorporating hydroacoustic data into the Prince William Sound Pacific herring assessment model. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 25–43. Data conflicts present difficulties in running integrated assessment models as shown by the age-structured assessment (ASA) model for the Pacific herring population in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska. After the 1989 “Exxon Valdez” oil spill in PWS, the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) ASA model indicated a significant decline in the population, starting in winter 1992. Back-calculated estimates from hydroacoustic abundance surveys that started in 1993 suggested that the ASA model overestimated herring biomass from 1990 to 1992 and that the population decline actually began in 1989. To expose data conflicts, we incorporated the hydroacoustic survey information with all available spawning population indices directly into the age-structured model. In this way, the substantial uncertainty about population parameters from 1989 to 1992 attributable to data conflicts was quantified. Consequently, the magnitude of declines for that period estimated from both linear and ASA models depend on the type of integrated datasets and weighting, particularly with indices of male spawners. Our view is that a major decline started in 1992 when disease affected a large population that was in weakened condition. Other views are consistent with the existing data too.