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Investigating the construct validity of a development assessment centre
(AOSIS Publishing, 2013-11)
Orientation: The assessment centre (AC) is a prominent measurement tool for selection and
development.
Research purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the construct validity of a one-day
development assessment ...
Implementing efficient and effective learnerships in the construction industry
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010-03)
Orientation: Overcoming skills deficits has been a major concern in South Africa since the advent
of democracy in 1994.
Research purpose: This study investigated the current state of the learnership system in the
construction ...
A preliminary factor analytic investigation into the first-order factor structure of the Fifteen Factor Plus (15FQ+) on a sample of Black South African managers
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)
Orientation: The Fifteen Factor Questionnaire Plus (15FQ+) is a prominent personality
questionnaire that organisations frequently use in personnel selection in South Africa.
Research purpose: The primary objective of ...
An investigation into a peer module mentoring programme in economic and management sciences
(Clute Institute, 2013-10)
All South African universities face the challenges of student success and retention - a challenge
compounded by under-prepared students from diverse backgrounds. This article explores peer
module mentoring as a possible ...
Shift work, emotional labour and psychological well-being of nursing staff
(University of Split, Faculty of Economics, 2017)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explored the effect of emotional labour and the psychological experience of shift work on the psychological well-being at work (PWBW) of long term care nursing staff (n = 206). The ‘psychological ...
Using narratives to understand the motivational factors and experience of being a self-initiated academic expatriate in South Africa
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Orientation: A growing movement of foreign nationals is settling in South Africa. Given this, there is a need to understand not only those factors influencing foreign nationals to settle in South Africa but also their lived ...
Effect of ethical leadership and climate on effectiveness
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Orientation: The increasing prevalence of theft, sabotage and other deviant behaviours in the workplace has disastrous effects for organisations, such as lowered effectiveness, escalated costs and the organisation’s declining ...
Secondary education as a predictor of aptitude : implications for selection in the automotive sector
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Orientation: Details of applicants’ secondary education (incorporating subject choice) could be a useful screening tool when processing large applicant pools. Here, the relationships between secondary education (incorporating ...
The relationship between type of secondary education and subject choice with technically oriented aptitudes for automotive operators
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Orientation: The central theme of this study attends to the role of secondary education in relation to two broad categories of specific aptitudes (psychomotor and spatial abilities). Utilising type of secondary education ...
The principled leadership scale : an integration of value-based leadership
(AOSIS Publishing, 2019)
Orientation: A need exists to investigate leader behaviour necessary to curb the corruption that has infected and weakened South Africa’s moral fibre. Such leader behaviour would need to be underpinned by a set of universal ...