Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Mostert, Karina"
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Strengths use and deficit correction in organizations: development and validation of a questionnaire
Van Woerkom, Marianne; Mostert, Karina; Els, Crizelle; Bakker, Arnold B.; De Beer, Leon; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Although the positive psychology tradition emphasizes the importance of a balanced approach regarding individual strengths and weaknesses, there is no valid instrument to measure these phenomena in organizations. The purpose ... -
Strengths use and deficit improvement: the relationship with engagement and fit with study course amongst first-year students
Van Niekerk, Gabrielle; Mostert, Karina; De Beer Leon T. (Taylor & Francis, 2016)This study sought to test a model of students' proactive behaviour to use their strengths and improve their deficits and how this relates with their self-reported perceptions of their fit with a study course and engagement. ... -
The bidirectional relationship between person-job fit and work engagement
De Beer, Leon T.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Mostert, Karina (Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2016)Although theorized and generally accepted, research on the relationship (specifically the direction of the causal relationship) between person-job fit and work engagement is limited and not yet clear. Theoretical arguments ... -
Time-based and strain-based work-family conflict in the South African police service: examining the relationship with work characteristics and exhaustion
Mostert, Karina (Criminological and Victimological Society of South Africa (CRIMSA), 2008)The objectives of this study were 1) to investigate the relationship between work characteristics, work-family conflict (WFC) and exhaustion, and 2) to determine whether time-based and strain-based WFC mediate the relationship ... -
Work and Personal life: Which strategies do secondary school educators use to deal with the interaction?
Buys, Chenell; Mostert, Karina; Wentzel, Lizelle (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)The general objective of this study was to investigate which strategies secondary school educators use to deal with the interaction between their work and personal lives. A non-probability purposive voluntary sample (N = ... -
Work-home interaction of employees in the mining industry
Oldfield, G.R.; Mostert, Karina (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2009)This study aimed to test the construct validity, factorial invariance and reliability of the Survey Work-Home Interaction-NijmeGen (SWING) and to explore whether and how the work-home interaction of various socio-demographic ... -
Work-home interference and the relationship with job characteristics and well-being: a South African study among employees in the construction industry
Mostert, Karina; Peeters, Maria; Rost, Izel (Wiley, 2011)Although the relationship between job characteristics, work–home interference (WHI) and work-related well-being has been researched in Western societies, this relationship has not often been tested in non-Western societies ... -
Work-home interference: Examining socio-demographic predictors in the South African context
De Klerk, Marissa; Mostert, Karina (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)Orientation: The focus of this study was to investigate the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and the work-home interaction in different occupational groups in South Africa.Research purpose: The main ... -
Work-nonwork interference: Preliminary results on the psychometric properties of a new instrument
Koekemoer, Frieda Eileen; Mostert, Karina (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)Orientation: Recently, a new work-nonwork interference instrument was developed to measure the interference between work and nonwork roles in the South African context (Koekemoer, Mostert & Rothmann, 2010). However, no ...