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The Job Insecurity Scale: A psychometric evaluation across five European countries
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Multiple instruments have been developed and used to measure quantitative job insecurity (i.e., insecurity to lose the job as such), often without systematic evaluation of their psychometric characteristics across countries ... -
Job insecurity, leadership empowerment behaviour, employee engagement and intention to leave in a petrochemical laboratory
(AOSIS, 2010)Orientation: Engaging individuals at work plays an important role in retaining them. Job security and leadership empowerment behaviour are antecedents of employee engagement. Research purpose: The objective of this study ... -
Job satisfaction in a chemical factory
(Unisa, 2010)Subjective well-being is regarded as an important goal given the positive outcomes thereof for individuals. Job satisfaction is an important indicator of the subjective well-being of individuals. The objectives of this ... -
Johan H. Bavinck in gesprek met Westerse en Oosterse mistiek. 'n Boodskap vir vandag?
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)Johan H. Bavinck's dialogue with Western and Eastern mysticism. A message for today? For a variety of reasons all kinds of mystical writings and experiences have again become a common phenomenon. Mysticism seems to be ... -
Johannes Calvyn (1509-1564) se mensbeskouing: 'n Christelik-filosofiese waardering
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Joseph Conrad in the Popular Imaginary: The case of Heart of Darkness
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2014)In his defining work The Great Tradition (1948), F.R. Leavis declared, with characteristic asperity, that apart from Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad, “there are no novelists in English worth reading” ... -
Jung, individuation, and moral relativity in Qohelet 7:16 - 17
(Springer, 2014)Qohelet’s warning in chapter 7:16 ‘not to be too righteous’ has commonly been interpreted by biblical scholars in ways that acquit the author of teaching immorality. This article approaches the text from a psychological ... -
Just how literal is the King James Version?
(Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2011)Many scholars have the perception that the King James Version (KJV) is a literal translation. However, it is not so easy to define the concept of "literal translation". The simplest definition may be to regard it as ... -
The Kalam cosmological argument and the Infinite God Objection
(Springer, 2015)In this article, we evaluate various responses to a noteworthy objection, namely, the infinite God objection to the kalām cosmological argument. As regards this objection, the proponents of the kalām argument face a ... -
"Kan die vrou haar volk dien deur haar huis?": Afrikanerpolitiek en vrou in die Ossewa-Brandwag, 1942 tot 1954
(University of the Free State, 2015)The “Ossewa-Brandwag” (OB or Oxwagon Sentinel) was a mass-movement of Afrikaners following a non-party political strategy in order to gain power in a white dominated South Africa. The organisation, which gained its highest ... -
Kan het daderschap van pesterijen verklaard worden via het job demands–resources model?
(Boom Lemma uitgevers, 2012)Workplace bullying leads to negative consequences and should be prevented. Studies investigating antecedents of bullying showed however two shortcomings. First, they mainly focused on targets, so little is known about ... -
Key challenges for local government - the road whereto?
(Sabinet, 2002)As the final tier of government, the South African local government is on a steep transformation curve. Facilitated by the Contitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 108 of 1996, the Municipal Demarcation Act 27 of ... -
Key challenges to public private partnerships in Botswana - the case of Water Utilities Corporation - Lobatse Management Centre
(African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)The extensive application of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) throughout the world is comparatively recent. In Botswana, PPPs were first mentioned in the Privatisation Policy of Botswana. The government pronounced in the ... -
Khoi en Oosgrensafrikaans
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Den Besten se studies oor die invloed van Khoi op Afrikaans, oor ʼn tydperk van 25 jaar, het ʼn impetus gegee vir opvolgondersoeke oor temas waarvan hy in sy werk aanduidings gegee het. In hierdie studie word daar, in ... -
Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast and Islamic scholarship: a Calvinist appraisal
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)This article introduces and evaluates, from a Christian-Reformed point of view, the essential lines of Bagheri Noaparast's project concerning the establishment of an integral type of Islamic scholarship. After recommending ... -
Kleurvol hibried: Kleur kom nooit alleen nie en die talige ruimte van saambestaan
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“Klipwerk”: ’n Rooihakskeenlesing
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2015)"Klipwerk" (Stone Work), Van Wyk Louw's 1954 poem, actually a series of 97 separate poems, is interpreted as a poem about romantic and amorous inclinations. "Klipwerk" tells of courtship strategies, of falling in and talking ... -
Knowledge about the origin of a municipality's potable water: a prerequisite for consolidation of more effective local governance
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Knowledge and learning: views of a sample of South African higher education
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2013)This study explored views of knowledge and learning held by a sample of 14 Black South African first year university students (age range = 18-24, 50% female). Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews, group ...