Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "10064699 - Rothmann, Sebastiaan"
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Burnout and engegement of Reformed church ministers
Buys, Chenell; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)Orientation: The ministry is one occupation where burnout is increasingly considered to be a consequence of the problems with which ministers have to cope. However, few studies focused on the positive antipode of a minister’s ... -
Burnout and work engagement of academics in higher education institutions: effects of dispositional optimism
Barkhuizen, Nicolene; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R. (Wiley, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among dispositional optimism, job demands and resources, burnout, work engagement, ill health and organizational commitment of South African academic staff in ... -
Burnout of academic staff in South African higher education institutions
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Barkhuizen, N. (Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2008)The objectives of this study are to assess the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) for academic staff in South African higher education institutions and ... -
Comparing trust levels of male and female managers: measurement invariance of the behavioural trust inventory
Heyns, Marita; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (Sage, 2016)Despite the widely acknowledged need for validated trust measurement instruments and the legal obligation to ensure that psychometric tests are unbiased towards different groups in South Africa, no attempt has ever been ... -
A confirmatory investigation of a job demands-resources model using a categorical estimator
De Beer, Leon; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Pienaar, Jaco (Sage, 2012)A confirmatory investigation of a job demands-resources model was conducted with alternative methods, in a sample of 15,633 working adults aggregated from various economic sectors. The proposed model is in line with job ... -
Coping and work engagement in selected South African organisations
Hill, Carin; Jorgensen, Lené Ilyna; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (AOSIS, 2011)Orientation: The coping strategies of their employees are amongst the activities that organisations should address to improve their employees’ work engagement. Research purpose: The objective of this study was to investigate ... -
The cross-cultural application of the social axioms survey in the South African Police Service
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Barnard, Adi; Meiring, Deon (OpenJournals Publishing, 2008)The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). A crosssectional survey ... -
Employee health and wellness in South Africa: The role of legislation and management standards
Sieberhagen, Charlotte; Pienaar, Jacobus; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)The aim of this study was to investigate the role that legislation and management standards might play in ensuring occupational health and wellness in South Africa. The Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993 determines ... -
Exploring antecedents and consequences of burnout in a call centre
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Visser, Willie A. (University of Johannesburg, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, 2008)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between six characteristics of call centre work environments, burnout, affective commitment and turnover intentions. These characteristics were competing management ... -
Implicit personality conceptions of the Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa
De Bruin, Gideon; Meiring, Deon; Nel, Jan Alewyn; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Valchev, Velichko H.; Van de Vijver, Alphonsius Josephus Rachel (Sage, 2011)The present study explored the personality conceptions of the three main Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa: Swati, Xhosa, and Zulu. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 116 native speakers of Swati, ... -
Interference between work and nonwork roles: The development of a New South African instrument
Koekemoer, Frieda Eileen; Mostert, Karina; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)Orientation: The interference between work and personal life is a central issue in the 21st century as employees attempt to balance or integrate their involvement in multiple social roles. Research purpose: The purpose of ... -
Investigating the reversed causality of engagement and burnout in job demands-resources theory
De Beer, Leon T.; PIenaar, Jaco; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (AOSIS, 2013)Orientation: Reversed causality is an area that has not commanded major attention within the South African context, specifically pertaining to engagement, burnout and job demandsresources. Therefore, this necessitated an ... -
Job burnout’s relationship with sleep difficulties in the presence of control variables: a self-report study
De Beer, Leon T.; Pienaar, Jaco; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (Sage, 2014)Burnout, as a work-related phenomenon, has negative consequences on employee functioning and is well documented. What is deserving of further investigation is how effort-recovery processes may be affected, in this instance, ... -
Job demands and resources, psychological conditions, religious coping and work engagement of reformed church ministers
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Buys, Chenell (Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2011)This study investigated the relation between job demands and resources, psychological conditions, religious coping and work engagement of Reformed Church ministers. A cross-sectional survey design was used. Participants ... -
Job satisfaction, occupational stress, burnout and work engagement as components of work-related wellbeing
Rothmann, Sebastiaan (University of Johannesburg, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, 2008)The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction, occupational stress, burnout and work engagement as dimensions of work-related wellbeing in a sample of members of the police force ... -
A model of work wellness for non-professional counsellors in South Africa
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Fourie, Lukas; Van de Vijver, Fons J. (John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 2008)The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of job demands, job resources and sense of coherence on the burnout and work engagement of non-professional counsellors in South African banks. A cross-sectional ... -
Model of work-related ill health of academic staff in a South African higher education institution
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Barkhuizen, N.; Tytherleigh, M.Y. (UNISA Press, 2008)The objective of this study is to investigate the relationships between burnout, ill health, job demands and resources, and dispositional optimism in a higher education institution in South Africa. A survey design was used. ... -
Occupational stress of academic staff in South African higher education institutions
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Barkhuizen, N. (PSYSSA:(Psychological Society of South Africa), 2008)The objectives in this study were to identify the indicators of occupational stress for academic staffin South African higher education institutions, to analyse the differences between the occupational stress of different ... -
Occupational stress, ill health and organisational commitment of members of the South African police service in the North West Province
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Jorgensen, Lené (Criminological Society of South Africa (CRIMSA), 2008)The aims of this study were to analyse the occupational stress experienced by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) stationed at the Local Criminal and Record Centre (LCRC), to assess the relationship between ... -
Outcomes of occupational stress in a higher education institution
Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Nell, Karolien; Mostert, Karina; Mostert, Frans F. (College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa, 2008)The objectives of this study were to determine the occupational stressors for support staff at a higher education institution in the North West Province and to investigate the relationship between occupational stress, ill ...