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Women in a leadership development context constructing a leadership identity

Naidoo, Kerrina (2019-11)

Female managers in the mining industry face unique challenges not experienced by their male counterparts. They need to perform identity work to overcome these barriers successfully so that they can create a leadership ...
The relationship between burnout, employee engagement and self-perceived employability amongst employees in the South African public sector

Zwane, Ntombifuthi Joy (2018-11)

Orientation: The employee engagement approach has been utilised to combat burnout in both private and public sector institutions. With increasing research, selfperceived employability is gaining popularity as an effective ...
The relationship between emotional intelligence and occupational stress amongst firefighters in a metropolitan municipality

Ngope, Margaret (2018-11)

The 21st century world of work is characterised by increased global competition, a relentless drive to cost effective measures, work pressure, highly constrained budgets, higher levels of unemployment, constant economic ...
Differential evolution technique on weighted voting stacking ensemble method for credit card fraud detection

Dolo, Kgaugelo Moses (2019-12)

Differential Evolution is an optimization technique of stochastic search for a population-based vector, which is powerful and efficient over a continuous space for solving differentiable and non-linear optimization problems. ...
Selection of industrial and organisational psychology master's students: exploring the validity of applied psychometric measures

Olivier, Karina Cornelia (2019-10)

The objective of this study was to investigate how well the academic performance of the Industrial and Organisational Psychology master’s students at a research institution can be predicted through psychometric measures. ...
Personality traits, work-family conflict, stress and work engagement of working women

Mdhluli, Nthabeleng Innocentia (2019-08)

The objectives of the research were: (1) to conceptualise work-family conflict, stress, work engagement and personality from a theoretical perspective, exploring definitions, theoretical models and dimensions; (2) to ...
Career development trajectories of women academics in the South African Higheer Education context: a constructivist grounded theory study and substantive theory

Hobololo, Bongiwe (2020-09)

Statistics on the gender profile of academics in South African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) reveal women academics are still concerted at the junior levels of the hierarchy with a small number of women at ...
Experiences of emergent change from an applied neurosciences perspective

Garnett, Gabriella (2019-11)

Emergent change is a pervasive force in modern organisations. However, the subjective experiences of emergent change for frontline individuals and teams have not been explored in organisational change literature. The ...
Development of an integrated career anchor preferences, career interests and abilities measure for career path congruence

Roythorne-Jacobs, Hermanus Louis (2019-11)

The research focused on individual–organisational career path congruence and the development of an integrated measure (I-PIA-M) constituting individual variables (i.e. career anchor preferences, career interests and ...
Generational relationships and differences in work-life balance and subjective well-being in a South African sample

Van der Linde, El-Karien (2019-11)

This study examined the work-life balance (WLB) and subjective well-being (SWB) of Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y in the current world of work. The instruments used in this study for data collection was Work-life ...
A conceptual model of volunteer well-being: a hermeneutic phenomenological study

Furtak, Aleksandra Maria (2019-11)

This study, to enhance understanding of volunteer well-being and to develop a conceptual model of volunteer well-being through an in-depth exploration of volunteers’ work–life experiences, was guided by an interest in ...
Learners' experiences of learnership programmes in an information technology organisation

Naidu, Karmen (2019-01)

Learnerships are occupational and vocational education training programmes that have been provided to fast-track acquisition of qualifications for unemployed youth, equipping them with knowledge, skills and experience. This ...
A systems psychodynamic description of gender role experiences and gender transformation in a government organisation

Chaithram, Reshmika (2019-11)

The focus of this research was to describe gender role experiences and gender transformation from a systems psychodynamic stance. Women have fought to overcome past oppressions but society intended to label women continually ...
Employee wellness amongst middle managers in a South African Public Sector Organisation.

Harry, Nisha Gallie, Fatima (Unisa Press, 2019)

At the heart of the public service sector within a developing country such as South Africa , is the contentious issue of good service delivery . However , numerous budget cuts , high vacancy rates and service ...
Constructing a psychological coping profile in the call centre environment: Wellness-related dispositions in relations to resiliency-related behavioural capacities.

Harry, Nisha (AOSIS, 2015)

Orientation: The context of this research is the coping and wellness of call centre agents in a characteristically high-stress work environment. Research purpose: The purpose of the study was to construct a psychological ...
The relationship between personality traits and employee engagement in a financial institution in South Africa

Thomas, Candace (2019-07)

The purpose of the current study was to determine the relationship between personality and employee engagement (EE) within a financial institution in South Africa. A quantitative correlational research approach was utilised ...
The career advancement experiences of female managers in the ICT sector

Zikode, Zolile Londiwe Nosibusiso (2020-03)

A considerable amount of research effort has been invested in investigating the under-representation of women and their career advancement in traditionally male dominated sectors. Although it is widely recognised that ...
Perceived influence of inequality on the career development of emerging adults in South Africa

Smith, Adriaan Frederik (2018-10)

After the transition from the Apartheid government to the first democratically elected government of South Africa in 1994, massive challenges of inequality had to be addressed. The career development and ability of those ...
Influencing ethical leadership and job satisfaction through work ethics culture

Jeremy, Mitonga-Monga Flotman, Aden-Paul Moerane, Mochabo (Better Advances Press, 2019)

There is a growing realisation that organisational resources such as organisational culture and ethical leadership, directly affect employee attitudes and workplace behaviour. This also applies to the Democratic Republic ...
Career adaptability, sense of coherence and career self-efficacy of students at a residential university

Vos, Katherine Gail (2019-01)

The aim of the dissertation was to examine the relationship between career adaptability, sense of coherence (SOC) and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE), and whether there were any demographic differences, namely ...

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