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Showing 1 to 20 of 341 for “"Organisational Psychology"”.
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Leadership in work environment complexity
… the (individually perceived) complexity within organisational work contexts. As WEC presents organisations and leaders with a new and often challenging quality of work, further research is needed to understand complexity as well as the consequences for working and leading in high-complexity work …
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A qualitative investigation into the relationship between the early career expectations, and experiences, of graduate engineers in a South African utility organisation
… their early career period. The theories of organisational socialisation, reality shock and work adjustment define the context in which this research is located. Qualitative data were obtained through in-depth interviews with sixteen subjects with less than five years work experience, …
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Organisational commitment and its consequences : a qualitative study amongst South African information technology professionals
… and work outcomes. The three-component model of organisational commitment developed by Allen and Meyer (1990) served as the conceptual basis for this investigation. Participants consisted of forty-four IT professionals across five IT organisations in the Western Cape. Data was gathered by means …
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An evaluation of the motivational factors of network marketing independent distributors using Vroom's work motivation theory
… of motivation, which are taken from industrial/organisational psychology, personnel management, applied psychology, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurial literature. It reviews the empirical research and the measurement problems posed. Vroom's theory of motivation (1964), commonly known …
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The role of anger in managerial effectiveness
… for future investigations regarding stress and organisational psychology.
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Educational psychology work in children's centres: a realistic evaluation of group supervision with family support workers
… and a role utilising community, critical and organisational psychology principles is suggested. The present study uses a Realistic Evaluation (Pawson & Tilley, 1997) framework to explore the mechanisms, context and outcomes of group supervision. Key mechanisms within FSWs were: confidence, …
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Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour with the addition of role-identity to predict lecture attendance behaviour
… for registered students) and from a first-year organisational psychology course (which had voluntary lecture attendance for registered students). The study aimed to broaden the limited knowledge which exists around the perceptions of students regarding lecture attendance specifically in a South …
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Spirituality at work: The development of a theoretical model
… of incorporating spirituality at work into wider organisational psychology frameworks. This was achieved by integrating both PO fit and transpersonal psychology, and subsequently developing a theoretical model that investigates three questions: a) what antecedents lead individuals and …
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Employee reactions to management communication: a study of operations personnel in the oil industry.
… from the management team were analysed as the organisational story unfolds from the other side (i.e. employee perspective) instead of the rather usual/dominant one (i.e. managerial perspective). Behaviour was observed from an interactionist, interpretive and critical perspective and analysed in …
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Relationship between attitude, motivation and occupational task performance in teaching engineering drawing among technical education teachers in Nigeria
… Drawing over the years. Literatures from organisational psychology indicate that attitude and motivation are two factors that can affect performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how much attitude and motivation influence teachers’ occupational task performance …
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Predicting work-related behaviour from personality traits and situational characteristics
… situational contexts impact individuals' daily organisational behaviour – a key imperative of organisational psychology. This study leverages recent developments in situation assessment to investigate the extent to which personality traits and situational characteristics independently, and in …
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Predicting work-related behaviour from personality traits and situational characteristics
… situational contexts impact individuals' daily organisational behaviour – a key imperative of organisational psychology. This study leverages recent developments in situation assessment to investigate the extent to which personality traits and situational characteristics independently, and in …
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Exploring and evaluating a solution-focused counselling programme for industrial psychology practitioners
The industrial and organisational psychology (IOP) practitioner is often faced with workplace situations which require provision of counselling within their professional capacity. However, research has indicated that the IOP practitioner does not receive sufficient training in specific counselling …
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Generation Z employees' construal of workplace leadership: an application of the repertory grid technique
… African Generation Z (Gen Z) employees construe organisational leadership. The Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) was used as a part of structured interviews with sixteen Gen Z employees (N = 16). In addition to thematic analysis, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is utilised to explore nuanced …
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The relationship between raters' understanding of personality traits and situation dimensions from cues: nothing more than general mental ability?
The study of abilities and intelligences in psychology has been an area of interest and debate for over a century. Researchers remain divided as to whether intelligence should be generalised across various domains or should the respective domains be acknowledged and assessed in their individual …
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Ethnicity and Differential Career Success
… is improving, many are concentrated at lower organisational levels and experience more difficulties reaching senior positions than their majority-ethnic (i.e. white) colleagues (ONS, 2011). The percentage of minority-ethnic individuals entering the workplace is continually rising (ONS, 2011) …
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Chance Made Us Colleagues, Fun and Laughter Made Us Friends: Exploring the Formation and Development of Workplace Friendships Between Co-workers
… remains an underexplored area within organisational psychology. This thesis delves into the formation and development of workplace friendships between co-workers through the creation of a theoretical model. I highlight and link cognition, affect, and behaviour involved in these …
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