Browsing by Subject "Bias"
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Empowering global leaders through workplace sustainability: A case of Zambian leaders
(AOSIS, 2021)The African continent is experiencing a significant economic development characterised by many challenges as its emerging 21st-century leadership is finding its own path. Forceful and often uneven integration into the ... -
The independence of South African judges: a constitutional and legislative perspective
(2015)Judicial independence is fundamental to democracy. It is in that context that this paper considers whether the existing constitutional and legislative mechanisms provide sufficient judicial independence to South African ... -
Job insecurity: assessment, causes and consequences in a South African gold mining group
(North-West University, 2012)Job insecurity in the workplace has become an increasingly important trend in organisational research. The appraisal of job insecurity by individuals plays a significant part in how reactions manifest in the experiences ... -
Occupational stress, coping, burnout and work engagement of emergency workers in Gautenge
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2003)Emergency work is considered to be one of the most demanding occupations with significant social, physical and psychological consequences for the well-being of the emergency worker. Burnout, as well as its antithesis, work ... -
Strengths use and deficit improvement at work : a South African validation study
(2015)The emergence of the positive psychology movement has brought the attention to individuals’ strengths and their deficits. Specifically of interest within an organisational context is the extent to which employees’ strengths ... -
A systematic method for dealing with source-based questions
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article is intended to help both learners and teachers get to grip with the source material used in examination and tests by providing a systematic way in which to analyse them for such factors as usefulness, ... -
Unpacking, summing and anchoring in retrospective time estimation
(Elsevier, 2019)We examined whether or not interventions that have been used to try to influence predictions of future task duration – unpacking, summing and anchoring – had a similar effect on retrospective estimations of duration. In ... -
Work-related wellness of information technology professionals in South Africa
(North-West University, 2005)The information technology industry is considered to be one of the most demanding industries, with significant social, physical and psychological consequences for the wellbeing of the information technology professional. ...
