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Research Outputs (Industrial and Organisational Psychology): Recent submissions

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The role of organisational justice on employee engagement within a public service organization.

Ledimo, Ophillia; Hlongwane, V.C. (OAJI.net, 2014)

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between organisational justice and employee engagement in a South African public service organisation. The Organisational Justice Measurement Instrument (OJMI) ...
Personality type: optimizing the development of emotional intelligence.

Barnard, Antoni; Nel, E. (Business Perspectives, 2015)

The development of managers’ emotional intelligence (EI) has been advocated as fundamental to their success as leaders. Despite the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) being one of the most widely applied psychological ...
An audit of employee commitment to enable leaders to manage roganisational talent.

Ledimo, Ophillia; Martins, Nico (Virtus Interpress, 2014)

Leaders in motor manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of talent attraction, development and retention due to constant changes in manufacturing technology. Yet, these leaders are expected to recruit, train ...
The measurement of employee engagement in government institutions. Risk governance & control: financial markets & institutions.

Martins, Nico; Ledimo, Ophillia (Virtus Interpress, 2016)

Employee engagement has consistently been rated as one of the top issues on chief executive officers’ lists of priorities and is a main focus of attention of both academics and human resources practitioners. A number of ...
Slaughtering for a living: A hermeneutic phenomenological perspective on the well-being of slaughterhouse employees

Victor, Karen; Barnard, Antoni (CoAction Publishing, 2016)

Slaughterhouses constitute a unique work setting exposing employees to particular physical and psychological health challenges. Research that focuses on the well-being of slaughterhouse employees is limited, and the aim ...
Determinants of employee compensation: an exploratory study.

Maoloa, Frans; Rajah, Mahamed (Graduate School of Business Leadership, Unisa, 2012)

Compensation is a discretionary concept and the determinants of compensation may not necessarily be the same for all organisations. This article reports on the extent to which a limited number of determinants of compensation ...
Exploring Cultural Issues for Constellation Work in South Africa

Mayer, Claude-Helene; Viviers, A.M. (2015)

Constellation work is a therapeutic and counselling intervention recognised in Germany and other European countries since the 1970s. Various scientists and practitioners have contributed to its theoretical and practical ...
Reliability and validity of the attitude towards research scale for a sample of industrial psychology students

Van der Westhuizen, Sanet (2015)

The study investigated the reliability and validity of the Attitudes towards Research Scale for a South African sample. A cross-sectional survey design was used and a convenience sample of postgraduate students in industrial ...
Assessing employability capacities and career adaptability in a sample of human resource professionals.

Coetzee, Melinde; Ferreira, Nadia; Potgieter, Ingrid Lorraine (University of Johannesburg, 2015)

Orientation: Employers have come to recognise graduates' employability capacities and their ability to adapt to new work demands as important human capital resources for sustaining a competitive business advantage. Research ...
Job satisfaction, organisational commitment and work engagement in an insurance company

Viviers, A.M.; Sehunoe, Norah; Mayer, Claude-Helene (2015)

Retaining talented employees and keeping them healthy and well are increasingly important challenges for organisations in the age of the knowledge worker. Organisations are interrogating aspects such as the reasons why ...
Social constructionism and relational practices as a paradigm for organisational psychology in the South African context

Geldenhuys, Dirk J (2015)

Orientation: This article is about introducing social constructionism and relational practices as a paradigm perspective to organisational psychology, especially as these are applied in organisation development. Research ...
Die persoonlikheidsoriëntasieprofiel van die saluto-genies-funksionerende mens

Viviers, A.M. (1999)

The aim of this research is to integrate the theoretical personality profile of the salutogenic functioning person, drawn from the literature on Salutogenesis, with the personality orientation profile of the optimal ...
Constellation work principles, resonance phenomena, and shamanism in South Africa

Mayer, Claude-Helene; Viviers, A.M. (2015)

The pioneering work of Bert Hellinger in ‘Familien-Stellen’ (constellation work) started in the 1970s in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was the beginning of the international therapeutic movement, which is contemporarily ...
Validating a scale measuring engagement in a South African context

Nienaber, Hester; Martins, Nico (2015)

Employee engagement is at the top of management agendas because it is associated with a range of benefits. A number of instruments are available to measure engagement. However, the validity of widely used instruments ...
Psychosocial employability attributes as predictors of staff satisfaction with retention factors

Coetzee, Melinde; Oosthuizen, Rudolf M; Stoltz, Elleen (2015)

The increased mobility of highly skilled knowledge workers who place a high premium on their employability capital challenges organisations to retain their scarce talent. This article explored individuals’ psychosocial ...
Perceived transformational leadership style and the relationship with work engagement within the South African Army

Dibley, James; Viviers, A.M.; Van Zyl, Llewellyn Ellardus (2014)

The objective of the study is to determine the relationship between the perceived transformational leadership styles of officers (as perceived by their followers) and their followers' levels of work engagement. Followers ...
Psychological wellness constructs: relationships and group differences

Gropp, Liezl; Geldenhuys, Dirk J; Visser, Delene (2007)

The objective of the study was to examine the relationships between several constructs that were hypothesised to be components underlying psychological wellness and to establish whether there were differences between ...
The relationship between absenteeism and employer-sponsored child care

Anderson, B.; Geldenhuys, Dirk J (2011)

Given the high loss of revenue due to absenteeism, exploring different ways of managing absenteeism in South African companies, such as family-friendly practices, has become important. Establishing onsite employer-sponsored ...
Job insecurity, organizational commitment and work engagement among staff in an open distance learning institution

Moshoeu, A.N.; Geldenhuys, Dirk J (2015)

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between job insecurity, organisational commitment and work engagement among staff in an open distance learning institution. The research was conducted through ...
The impact of feedback on changing organisational culture

La Grange, A.; Geldenhuys, Dirk J (2008)

Giving feedback on organisational culture is common practice in large South African organisations, but the value of the impact is seldom measured. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of feedback in terms of ...

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