Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "O'Hora, Denis"
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Capturing hearts and minds: preparing an organization for effective implementation of behaviour-based safety
Tammemagi, Triona; O'Hora, Denis (Irish Ergonomics Society, 2013)Many companies fail to successfully implement behaviour based safety (BBS) programmes within their organisation. Often failures are linked to the implementation strategy rather than the programmes themselves. BBS can be ... -
Creating a safety culture: What are the consequences.
O'Hora, Denis (2012)Getting our work done safely is an ethical and financial imperative. An effective safety culture depends on the consequences for behaviour at every level of the organisation. The safety culture of an organization is not ... -
Developing behaviour-based solutions that last: Examples from industry.
O'Hora, Denis (Irish Ergonomics Society, 2011)Organizational behaviour management (OBM) is an approach to enhancing the performance of organizations. Based originally on the theories of B. F. Skinner and other psychologists, OBM practitioners ... -
Education, intellectual development, and relational frame theory
Stewart, Ian; Roche, Bryan; O'Hora, Denis; Tarbox, Jonathan (New Harbinger Publications, 2013-05-01)[No abstract available] -
Effective design of total worker health interventions for lone workers: examples and implications for the Irish context
O'Hora, Denis (Irish Ergonomics Society, 2014)Workplace safety does not exist in a vacuum. Individuals come to work with a variety of advantages and disadvantages derived from their off-work activities. Extra-workplace behaviors and attitudes are likely to have greater ... -
The effects of a goal setting intervention on productivity and persistence in an analogue work task
Tammemagi, Triona; O'Hora, Denis (Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-27)The authors of this study sought to quantify the beneficial effect of goal setting on work performance, and to characterize the persistence or deterioration of goal-directed behavior over time. Twenty-six participants ... -
The effects of goal-setting on feedback requests.
Tammemagi, Triona; O'Hora, Denis (Irish Ergonomics Society, 2012)Prior research suggests that performance feedback enhances the effect of a goal on performance. The current study examined the effect of goal level on feedback solicitation. Participants were exposed to five ... -
Mutual entailment of temporal relations in younger and older adults: reversing order judgments
McGreal, Catherine; Hyland, John; O'Hora, Denis; Hogan, Michael (Springer Verlag, 2016-05-12)For temporal relations, mutually entailed relations are different to those directly trained; we learn that A occurred before B and derive that B occurred after A. Deriving such relations results in lower accuracy and ... -
Relational frame theory and intelligence
O'Hora, Denis (Taylor & Francis, 2010-06-10)The current paper re-examines the concept of intelligence using Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and suggests a theoretical framework for the analysis of “intelligent” behaviors. We begin by introducing the practices of the ... -
Rule-governed behavior: teaching a preliminary repertoire of rule-following to children with autism
O'Hora, Denis (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2011)Rule-governed behavior is generally considered an integral component of complex verbal repertoires but has rarely been the subject of empirical research. In particular, little or no previous research has attempted to ... -
Teaching children with autism: a basic component skill of perspective-taking
O'Hora, Denis (Wiley, 2010-09-26)Perspective-taking is an area of human functioning that is rarely studied by behavior analysts but likely entails a complex repertoire of verbal and relational behavior. Perspective-taking is generally acknowledged to be ...