ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African organisations within both the private and public sectors of the economy
are investing heavily into their talented employees, in an attempt to derive a
sustainable competitive advantage. ...
Hunter, William Frederick Johannes Richard(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations attempt to select employees that will make an effective contribution towards organisational performance. Traditionally, the emphasis was on selecting new staff on the basis of cognitive and ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigated the growing phenomenon of teams in the workplace, and how team effectiveness can be established. It was therefore important to establish what contributes to team effectiveness.
The ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dire educational situation in South Africa has urged researchers to investigate possible predictors of academic success. There seems to be an increasing emphasis on non–cognitive factors that might ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa, selection from a diverse population poses a formidable challenge. The challenge lies in subgroup difference in the performance criterion. Protected group members perform systematically ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The increasing demand for client-services in a highly competitive business
environment has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of call
centres in South Africa and worldwide (Carrim, Basson ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study arose from a high need to determine the factors contributing to leader effectiveness in South African organisations by identifying the determinants thereof. The purpose of the study furthermore ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A study on intention to leave and efficiency that was conducted in the healthcare industry reported that an employee contemplating leaving an organisation cuts corners and compromises quality (Waldman, ...
Van der Westhuizen, Nicola(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In response to globalisation and competition, today’s organisations are changing at an accelerating and radical pace. A review of the literature revealed that the demanding and often repetitive nature of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Amid the climate change crisis of the 21st century, South Africa faces its own, tailor-made challenges. In its attempt to contribute to the global effort to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable ...
Du Plessis, Anita Gesiena(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The military is a unique working environment that poses several challenges to
soldiers. These include numerous ambiguities, psychological stressors,
physical demands and resource challenges. In order ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Financial independence is what most people strive for; however, world trends
indicate that it eludes the majority of the population. In South Africa, financial
independence figures, especially at ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Job Characteristics Model (JCM) is one of the most widely used and researched models in the field of Industrial Psychology. It has provided industry with useful solutions for its people-related business ...
Jansen van Rensburg, Jandre(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Skills development is a crucial element in improving the effectiveness with which organisations operate in the current global arena. The level of skills of employees in any organisation should be of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study stems from an urgent need to understand which factors contribute to talented
employees’ intention to quit, and what organisations can do to ensure the retention of such
talent. Difficulties ...
Lambrechts Van Zyl, Amanda(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Employee engagement has become imperative for the long term sustainability and performance of organisations. In the current study, work-life interaction was hypothesized to have a direct effect on employee ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The ability of organisations to be successful in the current global business environment will ultimately be dependent on their ability to be innovative. However, creativity and innovation will not take ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa‟s social political past that was led by the Apartheid system has deprived the majority of South Africans of the opportunity to develop and accumulate human capital. As a result, this political ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Workplace bullying as a serious psychosocial workplace problem have been a subject of immense discussion in foreign literature since the mid-1980s. In a nutshell, workplace bullying refers to instances ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aimed at developing and empirically evaluating an affirmative
development coach competency questionnaire. The development and empirical
evaluation of the affirmative development coach competency ...