Behavioural insights
Conference paper
Product Modularity, Tolerance Management, and Visual Management: Potential synergies
Product Modularity refers to the hierarchical partitioning of products into their constitutive components. This concept has been explored in manufacturing to ease product design, simplify production, and to efficiently provide variety. Efforts have been made to transfer this knowledge to the construction context (i.e. one-off products, temporary supply chain, production taking place inside the product)...
Conference paper
Believing is seeing: Paradigms as a focal point in the lean discourse
In many ways, the transition from traditional modes of management thinking and behavior to Lean approaches is what Kuhn referred to as a 'paradigm shift'. Not only surface artifacts like behavior are different in a Lean organization - the most basic assumptions and patterns of thought are fundamentally different than those that have guided organizations...
Report
How to increase voluntary participation in justice programs
This report aims to identify key behavioural drivers and barriers for engaging in voluntary, behaviour-based offender programs and to understand the behavioural characteristics and experiences of unsupervised offenders and what impacts their motivation and likelihood to engage in future support.
Report
Transformation to Low Carbon Living – social psychology of low carbon behavioural practice (RP3012)
This document is the final report for a CRC Low Carbon Living project called “Transformation to Low Carbon Living: Social psychology of low carbon behavioural practice". As outlined in the introduction, the purpose of this project was to identify low carbon behaviours and then both (a) develop a short measure that could be used to...
Evaluation
Nudge vs superbugs: a behavioural economics trial to reduce the overprescribing of antibiotics
This report outlines the results of a BETA and Department of Health trial that tested the impact of personalised letters from Australia’s Chief Medical Officer to high-prescribing GPs, prompting them to consider reducing antibiotic prescribing where appropriate and safe.