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The unemployment rate for people with disability in Australia has remained unchanged for decades, despite policy and strategy focus. Therefore, understanding perceptions of those making hiring decisions is important. This research used a qualitative approach interviewing 13 participants who made hiring decisions. Reflexive thematic analysis uncovered four themes about altruistic hiring motivations, organisational culture barriers, sharing of disability during the hiring process, and negative emotions towards disability. There were distinct perspectives between people with and without experience of disability. People without experience tended to encourage early sharing of disability in the hiring process, cite organisational culture as a barrier, and shared strong negative emotions towards people with disability. People with experience of disability tended to prioritise autonomy of people with disability in sharing during the hiring process, and an intersectional approach to improve organisational culture. Regardless of disability experience, participants tended to share altruistic motives for hiring people with disability, despite this potentially contributing to the maintenance of power dynamics. Future research should continue to explore personal attributes and decision making of employers, ideally conducted by people with lived experience of disability. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Direct-to-customer sales provide higher returns, maximising the profitability of wine businesses. While recent research has expanded the understanding of the sales relationship developed during a cellar door experience, individual influences on this relationship remain under-researched. The current study examines the direct-tocustomer sales relationship co-created with staff during a cellar door experience. The influence of a participant's personality, mood, and emotion on onsite sales and intention to recommend the experience was captured through an online questionnaire completed by 136 customers during their cellar door experience. A Bayesian Network was produced to determine the influence of states and traits on purchase and loyalty behaviours. Results showed all outcome variables were sensitive to wine-evoked emotions, aroused mood, and neuroticism. Additionally, results show that cellar door staff make an invaluable contribution to maximising profitability. The developed framework provides cellar door managers and staff with a valuable guide to create engaging cellar door experiences which are essential to maximising overall winery profitability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there are well-known anecdotes and documented insight cases by renowned scientists and inventors, little is known about the experiences of insight in the general population. The present study aimed to determine peoples' self-reported experience of insight in their daily lives. Using an online questionnaire, responses were obtained from 1,114 respondents. Eighty-percent reported having insights. These respondents reported demographic information and answered three open-ended questions on where their insights occur, what insights are and other thoughts on insight. A greater percentage of those who have insights are, female, younger, highly educated, and involved in occupations including, management, sciences, arts and service professions. The qualitative results uncovered eight major themes, reflecting on the places people have insights: At night, work, shower, home, when it is quiet, transport, while exercising, and in nature. Two major themes emerged on what insights are: Something from the subconscious, and a result of (not) thinking. Finally, three major themes emerged from the third question on thoughts they would like to share on insight: The improvement of insight with age, the importance of analyzing the details of the problem, and the unexpectedness of the solution. Results are discussed in the context of the current experimental research on insight.

This article reports the development of a brief self-report measure of dispositional insight problem solving, the Dispositional Insight Scale (DIS). From a representative Australian database, 1,069 adults (536 women and 533 men) completed an online questionnaire. An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed a 5-item scale, with all items loading onto a single factor. Internal consistency was acceptable with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.74. The DIS showed convergent validity with other constructs that are theoretically related to insight: High need for cognition, intuition and positive affect. Normative data for the scale are also reported. The DIS appears to be useful for measuring a disposition toward insight in problem-solving.

Purpose: The prevalence of visually splendid multi-million-dollar cellar doors (CDs) builds an assumption that bricks and mortar create the co-created cellar door experience (CDE). This study aims to determine what attracts the visual attention of staff and customers during a CDE at three visual designs of CD: lively, stylised and simple. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 23 customers and five staff consented to record their CDEs using TobiiPro2 glasses with 35 recordings providing 993 min for analysis with Tobii Pro Lab. Twenty-five areas of interest were used to calculate fixation and visit metrics. Findings: The most attended elements of a co-created CDE were staff and faces. Attention is less influenced by the design of CD, whereas staff significantly influence attention. Research limitations/implications: The findings are valuable to the industry as they highlight the importance of human resources to a winery business, an increasingly casualised workforce. Future research could focus on staffing needs, including training and performance during experience delivery, with the expectation of increasing profitability. Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first to analyse objective recordings of staff and customer visual attention during their experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]