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The Robben Island diversity experience. An exploration of South African diversity dynamics.

Pretorius, M. Cilliers, Frans May, Michelle S (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)

Orientation: Because of its historic, symbolic and psychological representation, presenting a diversity event on Robben Island posed invaluable opportunities to form an in-depth understanding of South African diversity ...
The experience of the consultant as container in a group relations training event with specific reference to the Robben Island Diversity Experience (RIDE)

Smit, Madeleine (2011-12)

Consulting to the RIDE from a systems psychodynamic stance is different from other group relations training events. Consultants found it difficult to take up their roles as consultants and containers. They were not prepared ...
The influence of leaders' personality types and emotional intelligence on retention factors

Pauw, Desire (2011-11)

The objectives of the study were: (1) to determine whether staff and leaders differ significantly in terms of their perceptions of leaders’ emotional intelligence and retention factors; (2) to investigate the relationship ...
Personality as a predictor of performance for customer service centre agents in the banking industry

Blignaut, Linda (2011-11)

This dissertation focused on identifying personality traits, as measured by the Occupational Personality Questionnaire 32 (OPQ32r) that may act as job performance predictors for customer service centre (CSC) agents in the ...
The relationship between organisational commitment, retention factors and perceived job embeddedness

Van Dyk, Jeannette (2011-11)

The objectives of the study were: (1) to determine the relationship between organisational commitment (measured by the Organisational Commitment Scale), retention factors (measured the Retention Factor Scale) and job ...
Sense of coherence, self-efficacy and job performance in the recruitment industry

Mccomb, Calum Bruce

Recruitment consultants today are faced with considerable stress and challenges as a result of their work. They must cope effectively with these challenges in order to deliver effective job performance, which is crucial ...
Construct validity of a managerial assessment centre

Nako, Zovuyo Chulekazi (2011-12)

This was a correlation study exploring the relationships between scores on various dimensions within and across different exercises in the leadership assessment and development centre (LADC) of an auditing firm ...
Job insecurity, organisational commitment and work engagement amongst staff in a tertiaty institution

Moshoeu, Abigail Ngokwana (2011)

This research explores the relationship between job insecurity, organisational commitment and work engagement amongst staff in a tertiary institution. The research was conducted through computer-aided telephone interviews ...
Age, burnout, work engagement and sense of coherence in female academics at two South African universities.

Bezuidenhout, Adéle Cilliers, Frans (Unisa, 2011)

The influence of the age of female academics on their work experience in South African universities has not been researched to date. Yet, much publicity has been given to the “leaking pipeline” syndrome, referring term ...
Sense of coherence, affective wellbeing and burnout in a South African higher education institution call centre.

Harry, Nisha Coetzee, Melinde (Unisa, 2011)

The high levels of absenteeism and turnover due to the incidence of high stress levels in the higher education call centre environment have led to renewed interest in measuring call centre agents’ work-related wellbeing. ...
The role of positive psychology construct in employee coping

Marx, Anna Aletta (2011-11)

The objectives of this study were to: (1) determine the relationship between locus of control (measured by the Locus of Control Inventory), work engagement (measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale) and sense of ...
Salutogenic profile of police trainees on entry into the profession

Bekwa, Nomfusi De Beer, Marie (2009)

The study aimed to determine the salutogenic (wellbeing) profile of South African police trainees on entry into the profession. Participants were police trainees with an average age of 26 years enrolled for basic training ...
Sense of coherence, affective wellbeing and burnout in a higher education institution call centre

Harry, Nisha (2011-06)

The objective of this study was to: (1) assess the overall wellness climate profile of a sample of higher education call centre employees for national benchmarking purposes; (2) explore the relationship between the ...
Use of CAT in Dynamic Testing

De Beer, Marie (2007)

The assessment of learning potential—referred to as dynamic testing and generally using a test-train-retest approach—has gained some ground in the field of cognitive assessment. Despite general support for this concept and ...
Initial review of the psychometric properties of a computerized career preference test for career guidance assessment

De Beer, Marie (2011)

Psychometric proprties of the Career Preference Computerised Adaptive Test (CPCAT) (De Beer & Marais, 2010; De Beer, Marais, Maree, & Skrzypczak, 2008) are reported. Participants were high school students (n=343; ...
A modern assessment psychometric approach to dynamic assessment

De Beer, Marie (2010)

Beer Although dynamic assessment (DA) has been hailed as a positive move towards fair assessment, it has generally not been used in educational or industry settings to the same extent that standard (static) tests have ...
Psychological strengths as predictors of postgraduate students’ academic achievement

Van der Westhuizen, Sanet De Beer, Marie Bekwa, Nomfusi (2011)

This study sought to predict students’ Grade Point Average (GPA) from their personal sense of coherence, locus of control, hope and research self-efficacy. Participants were 429 postgraduate students at a large South ...
Longitudinal predictive validity of a learning potential test

De Beer, Marie (2010)

The aim of this article is to provide empirical psychometric evidence of the (longitudinal) predictive validity of a learning potential measure—the Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT)—in comparison with ...
The role of the Learning Potential Computerized Adaptive Test (LPCAT) in the vocational guidance assessment of adolescents.

De Beer, Marie (2011)

In the present study, the role of learning potential assessment as part of cognitive assessment for vocational guidance was investigated for a population (N=262) of junior secondary students. Mean scores, distribution ...
Measuring emotional intelligence (EQ) : a construct comparison between the BAR-ON EQ-i and the OPQ 32i report

Van der Merwe, P. Van der Westhuizen, Sanet De Beer, Marie (2005)

Recently, there has been increasing interest in the role of emotions in organisational life. Consequently, there is also widespread interest in the topic of emotional intelligence and its predictive validity for work ...

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