Browsing by Subject "Work engagement"
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Antecedents and outcomes of happiness of managers in the agricultural sector in South Africa
(North-West University, 2011)The happiness of managers is an important research theme for several reasons. Managers spend most of their working day with people, are constantly interacting with various social systems and are role models for happiness ... -
The antecedents and outcomes of work-family enrichment among female workers
(2014)The roles of females have changed significantly over the past years as females increasingly are entering the labour market in South Africa. This resulted in females having to fulfil multiple roles simultaneously, for example ... -
Antecedents of work engagement in a chemical industry
(North-West University, 2006)Organisations across the world are faced with the same challenges of how to get employees to be totally immersed in their role at work. People occupy roles at work. There is no sense in engaging employees if management is ... -
Antecedents of work engagement in a financial institution
(North-West University, 2009)The industrialised world of today is characterised by transformation and concepts such as downsising, rightsising and restructuring have become a reality. South Africa is not excluded from this worldwide phenomenon. Economic ... -
Assessing satisfaction with the change management process and work engagement levels of engineers in an electricity supplier
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)The objective of this research is to study Eskom engineers’ satisfaction with the new Engineering Change Management (ECM) process and assess their job satisfaction and work engagement levels in view of the mentioned ECM ... -
Assessing the organisational and individual strengths use and deficit improvement among sport coaches
(2013)Traditionally, organisations have focused efforts in developing their people towards improving so-called areas of deficiency, identifying the flaws of employees and putting intervention structures in place to rectify and ... -
Assessing the relationship between leadership trust and work engagement at a university
(2014)This study assessed the relationship between leadership trust and work engagement with the ultimate goal of developing a model that would specify which dimension of leadership trust would best predict work engagement. A ... -
Assessing the relationship between middle-level management trust and first-level management work engagement within the South African gold mining industry
(2015)Motivation for the study: The study on the trust-engagement linkage was motivated by the recent problems experienced in the SA gold mining sector specifically pertaining to management not living up to their commitments and ... -
Assessing the role of trust in the relationship between servant leadership and work engagement of academic staff in selected South African universities
(North-West University (South Africa), 2023)Contemporary South African society is experiencing moral bankruptcy, as is evident through persistent acts of crime and corruption in media reports. The higher education sector has not remained unscathed, with a lack of ... -
Authentic leadership, trust and work engagement : the mediating role of psychological safety
(2015)The ever-changing global business environment of today is presenting organisations with numerous challenges and in some instances result in economic and ethical meltdowns. The mining industry, in particular, is faced with ... -
Authentic leadership, trust and work engagement amongst health care workers
(North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2017)The public health care sector encompasses a volatile working environment that faces an array of challenges. Employees in this environment are often overworked and conduct their work under negative circumstances due to a ... -
Burnout and engagement of non-professional counsellors in South Africa
(North-West University, 2004)Counselling services as provided by non-professional counsellors have been in place for a number of decades. Counselling traumatised people demands a significant amount of emotional investment from the counsellor. A neglected ... -
Burnout and engagement of teachers in the North West Province
(North-West University, 2004)Continuous exposure to things like high job demands, lack of job resources, change, competitiveness and rivalry, can result in stress and burnout. Stressful events may lead to ill health and might impact negatively on the ... -
Burnout and work engagement among South African psychologists
(North-West University, 2010)Although numerous and divergent stressors are inherent to the professional life of a psychologist, research regarding burnout and its antipode, work engagement in psychologists is sparse. The current research sought to ... -
Burnout and work engagement of employees in an insurance company
(North-West University, 2004)Continuous changes along with the increased pressure to perform may result in feelings of distrust, strain in interpersonal relations, psychological strain, fatigue and tension, all affecting the well-being of employees. ... -
Burnout and work engagement of South African packaging manufacturing managers
(North-West University, 2005)Stress and burnout among workers are reaching epidemic proportions, resulting in loss of millions in revenue due to absenteeism and corresponding reduction in productivity. The question as to whether the participants of ... -
Burnout, work engagement and workaholism among employees in the insurance industry
(North-West University, 2006)Over the last decade, numerous changes have occurred in the insurance industry due to international expansions and stiff competitiveness. As a result of these changes, employees are suffering from stressful work conditions ... -
Crossover of engagement and life satisfaction among dual–earner parents
(North-West University, 2009)An individual has the ability to project feelings and emotions onto someone else, to the extent that the other person reacts to them, whether in a similar or opposite manner. These are known as crossover effects. Crossover ... -
Depressed, not depressed or unsure : prevalence and the relation to well–being across sectors in South Africa
(2011)Depression is one of the most debilitating, widespread and costly health problems worldwide and has a high prevalence in almost every society. Research suggests that depression affects an individual's work engagement levels, ... -
Developing a framework for assessing the influence of public service motivation on core work evaluation and counterproductive work behaviour
(IBC, 2022)The outcomes of low levels of public service motivation are low job satisfaction, organisational commitment, engagement and high levels of counterproductive work behaviour. This study’s primary aim was to ...