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Human Resource Management Practices in South Africa: Report on the South African findings.

Grobler, P.A.; Warnich, Surette; Mokobane, G (UNISA, 2018)

This report provides the results of a survey of South African human resource management (HRM) practices in private and public organisations. The survey is part of a longitudinal, comparative study of human resource ...
Employability attributes, organisational commitment and retention factors in the 21st century world of work

Gani, Khatoon (2017-01)

This research focuses on the relationship between employability attributes, organisational commitment and retention factors within the context of staff retention in the 21st century workplace. A cross-sectional quantitative ...
Prevention mechanisms to minimise injuries on duty : perceptions of security officers in a private security company

Van Rooyen, Bernadette (2017-12)

The aim of the study was to determine the causes of IODs in the workplace and to identify possible preventative measures to reduce IODs. A literature review was conducted as part of the study, involving assessment of all ...
The significance of employee biographics in explaining employability attributes.

Botha, Jo-Anne; Coetzee, Mariette (AOSIS, 2017)

Background: Employability is the capacity of employees to acquire transferable competencies and individual capacities that enable them to adapt to, be innovative in and steer their own careers in a dynamic work environment. ...
Personality preference facets and self-regulatory employability of human resource professionals.

Ferreira, Nadia; Potgieter, I.L. (Sage Publications Ltd., 2017)

Scholars interested in investigating the career wellbeing of employees have reported that employability includes a number of person-centred constructs needed to deal effectively with career-related changes in today’s ...
Graduate employability capacities, self-esteem and career adaptability among South African young adults.

Ismail, Sadika (AOSIS, 2017)

Orientation: Employers expect young graduates to have a well-rounded sense of self, to display a range of graduate employability capacities and to adapt to constant changes they are faced with in order to obtain and ...
Harnessing Dispute Resolution in a Metropolitan Bargaining Council of South Africa.

De Bruyn, A.J.; Sotshononda, N. (African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)

This article reports on a qualitative, interpretivist case study resulting from a university community engagement intervention enquiring into the low labour dispute settlement rate at a South African Local Government ...
Psychological career resources, career adaptability, and hardiness in relation to job embeddedness and organizational commitment.

Ferreira, Nadia; Coetzee, Melinde; Masenge, A. (Routledge, 2013)

The study examined the relationship between employees’ psychological career resources, career adaptability, hardiness (as a set of psychological career meta-capacities) and their job embeddedness and organizational commitment ...
Young emerging adults' graduateness and career adaptability - exploring the moderating role of self-esteem.

Ismail, Sadika; Ferreira, Nadia; Coetzee, Melinde (Routledge, 2016)

This study investigated the moderating role of self-esteem on young emerging adults' in their school-to-work transition phase of graduateness skills and career adaptability. A non-probability convenience sample (n = 332) ...
Employability capacities and organisational commitment foci of human human resource management professionals.

Potgieter, I.L.; Coetzee, Melinde; Ferreira, Nadia (Routledge, 2016)

This study explored the relationship between employees’ employability capacities and their organisational commitment foci. A convenience sample of 196 South African human resource professionals participated in the study, ...
Returning to work: the cancer survivor's informational journal of adjustment and coping.

Barnard, Antoni; Joubert, Yvonne Trijntje; Clur, L. (Taylor and Francis, 2016)
Validation of training priorities of engineers in the platinum mining industry in South Africa.

Motsoeneng, L.D; Schultz, C.M; Bezuidenhout, Adéle (South African Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2015)

Despite a significant need, there is very little South African research on the validation of the generic training priorities of engineers within the platinum mining industry. The purpose of this study was to validate the ...
The influence of biographical factors on adult learner self-directedness in an open distance learning environment.

Botha, J.; Coetzee, Mariette (Athabasca University, 2015)

This study investigated the relationship between self-directedness (as measured by the Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale) and biographical factors such as age, race, and gender of adult learners enrolled at a South ...
Perceived treatment of employees from designated groups in the workplace.

Coetzee, Mariette (University of Pretoria * Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, 2015)

This article reports on employees’ perceptions of the treatment of employees from designated groups in the workplace. The objective of the study was to identify the components of workplace treatment that indicate the ...
The relationship between organisational commitment, career adaptability and retention factors within the retail sector in the Western Cape

Jabaar, Rugshana (2017-06)

The objectives of the research were to examine the relationship between organizational commitment, career adaptability and retention factors within the retail sector in the Western Cape and to determine whether the ...
The relationship between hardiness and career adaptability of students studying at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges in Gauteng

Ndlovu, Velly (2017-04)

The research focused on the relationship between hardiness and career adaptability of students studying at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges in Gauteng. A quantitative survey was conducted on ...
The impact of changes in labour broking on an integrated petroleum and chemical company.

Joubert, Yvonne Trijntje; Loggenberg, B. (AOSIS, 2017)

Orientation: This article focuses on the changes to section 198 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA). Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of employees regarding the changes to section ...
Verbreking van die psigologiese kontrak tussen werknemer en werkgewer, en gedingsvatbare persoonlikheidskrenking

Snyman, A.; Neethling, J. (LitNet Akademies, 2015)

Afgesien van die formele, skriftelike dienskontrak tussen werkgewers en werknemers, bestaan daar ook ’n stel ongeskrewe wedersydse verwagtinge tussen hierdie partye: sogenaamde # X ...
8th Annual ASTD State of the South African Learning and Development Industry Report.

Meyer, M; Bushney, Melanie; Mey, M; Joubert, P; Van der Merwe, J (ASTD, 2010)
The psychological contract in relation to employment equity legislation and intention to leave in an open distance higher education institution.

Ferreira, Nadia; Snyman, A.; Deas, A. (UNISA, 2015)

In recognition of the injustices of South Africa’s apartheid past, employers have a responsibility to ensure that employment equity practices are implemented, without harming important aspects of the employment relationship, ...

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