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Who spends and who does not: clustering visitors at a national arts festival
(Sabinet, 2011)The Grahamstown National Arts Festival is the oldest National Arts Festival in South Africa and was founded in 1974. This celebration of the arts takes place over a period of eleven days with the main festival running over ... -
Who to work for: a South African hotel or resort?
(ELSEVIER, 2013)The purpose of this research is to determine the Quality of Work Life (QWL) of Front Office Employees (FOE) at a hotel group and resort group respectively in South Africa. These two groups were compared to determine which ... -
Why do fans attend World Wrestling Entertainment?
(University of Stellenbosch. Department of Sport Science, 2012)This research examined the travel motives of South African World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) fans at a live Smackdown event in July 2011, which was part of the WWE’s world tour. Based on these motives, different market ... -
Why does one volunteer in a conservation agency?
(Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2016)The purpose of this research was to determine the profile and motives of SANParks Honorary Rangers. The key question behind this research is: why do people spend time and their own money to work in national parks? The total ... -
Why keep on paddling? Evidence from a South African canoe marathon
(Sabinet, 2013)Despite the growth and potential future market for water-based recreation activities such as canoeing, to date research on the sport and its participants is sparse. Little is known about who canoeists are and why they ... -
Why travel motivation and socio-demographics matter in managing a national park : original research
(South African National Parks Board, 2009)The Addo Elephant National Park is one of only a few national parks in the world that offers the Big 7 experience and is therefore one of South Africa's prime tourism destinations. The park plays an important role in the ... -
Wie is die goeie Samaritane? Eienskappe van vrywilligers in Suid-Afrika
(Pretoria : Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2010)Mense wat vrywillig en sonder betaling hul arbeid aanbied vir die produksie van goedere en dienste waaruit ander voordeel trek, speel 'n belangrike rol in die ekonomie en gemeenskap. As vrywilligers beter verstaan word, ... -
Willingness to pay: who are the cheap talkers?
(Elsevier, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to determine who is willing to pay (WTP) for a greener event by applying a Contingent Valuation (CV) approach together with an experimental design. To identify the cheap talkers a survey was ... -
Work and Personal life: Which strategies do secondary school educators use to deal with the interaction?
(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 locus of control and sense of coherence as antecedents of job insecurity
(Association of Professional Management (APM), 2016)Previous research has highlighted various antecedents of job insecurity, both in cross-sectional research and in a recent meta-analysis. A review of this literature indicates that work locus of control actually is the only ... -
Work overload, burnout, and psychological ill-health symptoms: A three-wave mediation model of the employee health impairment process
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The study reported here investigated the causal relationships in the health impairment process of employee well-being, and the mediating role of burnout in the relationship between work overload ... -
Work stress and its influence on the work performance of Swaziland teachers in the Swaziland school education system
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)This paper deals with work stress within the Swaziland school education context. The objectives are to examine, understand, identify causes of workplace stress and examine how influences work performance. The discussion ... -
Work stressors, job insecurity, union support, job satisfaction an safety outcomes within the iron ore mining evnironment
(AOSIS, 2016)Orientation: The study of work stressors, job insecurity and union support creates opportunity for iron ore mining organisations to manage job satisfaction and safety motivation and behaviour more effectively.Research ... -
Work-home interaction of employees in the mining industry
(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 interaction of police officers in the North-West Province: examining socio-demographic differences
(Criminological and Victimological Society of South Africa (CRIMSA), 2008)This study was conducted among randomly selected members of the South African Police Service (n = 685) in the North West Province and examined how socio-demographic groups differ with regards to four dimensions of work-home ... -
Work-home interference and the relationship with job characteristics and well-being: a South African study among employees in the construction industry
(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
(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-life balance policies: challenges and benefits associated with implementing flexitime
(AOSIS, 2011)Orientation: Helping employees to balance their work and family lives is a business imperative. Work–life balance policies (like flexitime) aim to support employees to do so. However, implementing these policies is ... -
Work-life balance policies: the use of flexitime
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This study investigated the use of flexitime as a Work-life balance (WLB) policy and understanding employee perceptions regarding the use of flexitime among South African employees. A qualitative design with an exploratory ... -
Work-nonwork interference: can ministers currently cope with increasing job demands against limited resources within South Africa?
(AOSIS, 2015)Ministers of religion have a unique occupation with designated job demands and incongruous resources at their disposal. Literature indicates that stressors within the work environment are significant predictors of work-nonwork ...