Browsing Economic and Management Sciences by Subject "work engagement"
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Authentic leadership, fun at work, work engagement and perceived work performance in a chemical organisation
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)The current volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world of work requires renewed approaches to leadership and attaining employee outcomes. The chemical organisation where this research was conducted had a strong ... -
Investigating the daily need satisfaction and work engagement of nurses: a diary study
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)The constructs of this study respectively have gained increasing attention from research in the past. However, research gaps still exist when considering how these constructs have an impact on one another within different ... -
Investigating the experiences and consequences of employee well-being within the South African financial services industry
(North-West University, 2018)Employee well-being impacts on the performance of employees, success of organisations, as well as on experiences of customers. The business landscape is characterised by increasing mandates for higher productivity, more ... -
Investigating the relationships between engaging leadership, need satisfaction, work engagement and workplace boredom within the South African mining industry
(North-West University, 2018)Leadership and the effects it has on organisational outcomes, has been a popular topic of interest due to its importance. Recently, engaging leadership has surfaced as a new leadership style that emphasises the connection ... -
Mental health of South African industrial psychologists: results of a latent profile analysis
(North-West University (South Africa). Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2019)Industrial psychologists’ mental health is very important, since it could not only have direct negative consequences for themselves, but also for their clients, peers and ultimately the organisation’s bottom line. Furthermore, ... -
Occupational self–efficacy as a mediator between strength– and deficiency–based approaches and work engagement in a sample of South African employees
(North-West University, 2012)To stay competitive organisations need to harness and develop their human potential. Traditionally, a deficiency-based approach (DBA) was followed i.e. the focus was set on the development of employees’ deficiencies and ... -
The relationship between psychological capital, eudaimonic well-being and work engagement
(North-West University, 2018)Orientation: The struggle for survival in the mining industry is intense and a competitive advantage can be obtained by having employees who are engaged in their work. Research purpose: To conceptualise the relationship ... -
The relationship between workplace boredom, procrastination, work engagement and turnover intention within the South African context
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Workplace boredom is an international phenomenon that impacts negatively both on employees and organisations. Workplace boredom is increasingly becoming a common occurrence within organisations, and most employees are ... -
The role of Trade Unions in enhancing work engagement, work commitment, job satisfaction and job performance in a Government Institution
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)During the apartheid era, trade unions fought for the improvement of living and working conditions of workers and the demise of the apartheid regime. The dawn of democracy and the ever-changing world of labour relations ... -
Situational variables and related work attitudes and outcomes in a manufacturing concern in the Gauteng Province
(North-West University, 2012)The study was done to investigate the state of situational variables and how these variables affect work attitudes and subsequently intentions to quit in a manufacturing company in Gauteng Province. The study was carried ...