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Teaching Community Psychology as Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Angelo Fynn --- University of South Africa, South Africa Martin Terre Blanche --- University of South Africa, South Africa Eduard Fourie --- University of South Africa, South Africa Johan Kruger --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis report describes a model for teaching community psychology as a form of community engagement and the related practices to encourage active engagement between students and their communities. As active community learners, students need to explore self, family and community... -
The relation of HIV testing and treatment to identity formation in Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Emily Frank --- Anthropology Department, United StatesWhy would many Zambians be reluctant to access lifesaving antiretroviral treatment? Does the process of accessing an HIV test in Zambia promote an identity that can change individuals' livelihood strategies? What happens to individuals when people access treatment? Voluntary testing... -
Sustainability reporting at large public sector entities in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: B Marx --- Department of Accountancy, V van Dyk --- Department of Accountancy,Public sector entities are central to the delivery of sustainable development, and every aspect of their role shapes how people live their lives. This, together with the fact that they are under constant and growing pressure to operate in an... -
Sustainability in accounting education: An analysis of the teaching thereof at accredited South African universities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: B Marx --- Department of Accountancy, A van der Watt --- Department of Accountancy,Accountants and auditors are key role players in the financial world and society at large and as such can play a vital role in fostering awareness of sustainability and creating sustainable business practices. The issue of sustainability in accounting education... -
Perceived ethical leadership: Its moderating influence on employees’ organisational commitment and organisational citizenship behaviours
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jeremy Mitonga-Monga --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Frans Cilliers --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated the extent to which employees’ perception of ethical leadership moderated their organisational commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour. A non-probability purposive sample (N = 839; females = 32%) of employees in a railway organisation in the Democratic Republic... -
Young emerging adults’ graduateness and career adaptability: Exploring the moderating role of self-esteem
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sadika Ismail --- Department of Human Resource Management, Nadia Ferreira --- Department of Human Resource Management, Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial & Organisational Psychology,This study investigated the moderating role of self-esteem on young emerging adults’ in their school-to-work transition phase of graduateness skills and career adaptability. A non-probability convenience sample (n=332) of undergraduate black (98.5%) and female (62%) young emerging adults (18–29 years)... -
(Re)politicising and (re)positioning prevention: community mobilisations and AIDS prevention in the new AIDS era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Imara Ajani Rolston --- Department of Social Psychology & Centre for the Study of Human Rights, United KingdomAn increasing focus on the relationship between AIDS prevalence and socio-economic inequality signals the need for a revaluation of the role of “politics” and “power” in AIDS prevention. This revaluation bears great significance when considering the future trajectories of the... -
The influence of transformational leadership on organisational citizenship behaviour in a South African combat military unit
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Oscar Sechudi --- South African Army, South Africa Benny Olivier --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study investigated perceived individual transformational leadership (TL) to influence behaviours on follower organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in a South African combat military unit. A sample of 300 of 567 military followers (males = 78%; black Africans = 82%) completed... -
Combating Corruption in Africa through Institutional Entrepreneurship: Peering in from Business-government Relations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong --- School of Management, UKCorruption remains a significant barrier to the socio-economic development of Africa, despite efforts by various local, national and international stakeholders to combat it. Mishra and Maiko (2017), in their article which was published in Africa Journal of Management, suggest that... -
Wounded citizenship: the post-colonial city and poor whites
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Octavia Sibanda --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare, South AfricaThis paper focuses on wounds inflicted on poor whites in South Africa by the post-colonial city emanating from a changing socio-political and economic landscape. Contrary to the general assumption that the modern city project “historically embraced whites and continues to... -
Competitive factors of electronic dance music festivals with Social Networking Service (SNS) citizenship behaviour of international tourists
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joon-ho Kim --- Department of Business Administration, South Korea Ki-tai Lee --- Department of Tourism Events and International Conferences, South Korea Bong-ihn Seok --- Commercialization Planning Team, South Korea Hyun-ju Choi --- Department of Cultural & Arts Management, South Korea Seung-hye Jung --- School of Dance, South KoreaThis study examined the comparative advantages of prestige service labelling (VIP), online marketing, and image differentiation when applied as marketing strategies to build tourist loyalty as a component of citizenship behaviour. The participants were 220 African tourists attending the World... -
Validation of the work engagement, job satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and organisational citizenship measures in a mining sector setting in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Polite Masvaure --- Department of Industial Psychology, South Africa Johanna Hendrina Buitendach --- Department of Industial Psychology, South AfricaThis study aimed to validate measures of work engagement, job satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and organisational citizenship for use with employees in a mining enterprise in Zimbabwe. Miners (N = 176, males = 85.2%, females = 1.3%; age range = 24–65... -
“There is life in this place”: “DIY formalisation,” buoyant life and citizenship in Marikana informal settlement, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hestia Victor --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaTheir shack settlement labelled “too informal” to receive basic service provision, the residents of Marikana informal settlement, in Potchefstroom, North West province, South Africa, planned and executed what was locally referred to as “DIY formalisation” in order to politically appeal... -
Mental health and individual and organisational outcomes: A latent profile analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Molandri Moller --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThis study aimed to identify latent mental health profiles for managers in agribusinesses. Additionally, we aimed to investigate how these profiles differed regarding the managers’ job satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour, and intention to leave. Managers (N = 507) from agribusinesses... -
Leader-member exchange and organisational citizenship behaviour: The mediating and moderating effects of role ambiguity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Leigang Zhang --- School of Teacher Education, China Huaibin Jiang --- School of Education, China Tingting Jin --- Intensive Care Unit, Shaoxing People’ Hospital, ChinaThis study investigated the mediating and moderating effects of role ambiguity (RA) on the relationship between leader- member exchange (LMX) and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB). Participants were 426 nurses recruited from 12 public hospitals in China (female = 99.1%; mean... -
Work beliefs, work-role fit, and well-being of judges in South Africa: Effects on intention to leave and organisational citizenship behaviour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elsie Adriana Rossouw --- , South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- , South AfricaThis study explored work beliefs, work-role fit, well-being, intention to leave, and organisational citizenship behaviour in a sample of judges in South Africa. We employed an exploratory, multi-method design to survey South African judges (n = 25 for the qualitative... -
Servant leadership, diversity climate, and organisational citizenship behaviour at a selection of South African companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sean McCallaghan --- , South Africa Leon T. B. Jackson --- , South Africa Marita M. Heyns --- , South AfricaThe study examined the mediation effect of diversity climate on the relationship between servant leadership and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB). Participants were a convenience sample of 262 employees from South African financial, industrial, manufacturing, and retail sectors (male = 52.9%;... -
Organisational citizenship behaviours: Their influences on mineworkers’ turnover intention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Khayalethu Ngqeza --- , South Africa Nelesh Dhanpat --- , South AfricaWe investigated organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) influences on employee turnover intention in a mining organisation. The participants were 371 mining employees (men = 74%; women = 26%; mean age = 37.2 years, SD = 8.21 years). The employees completed standardised... -
Linking servant leadership to customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour: The moderating role of perceived interactional justice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shaping Qiu --- , USA Ruijuan Zhang --- , China Sami Jabarkhail --- , USA Larry M. Dooley --- , USAThis study examined the association between employee servant leadership perceptions and their customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), and the influence of perceived interactional justice in this relationship. Participants were 708 hospitality industry employees from across China (female = 66.53%; mean... -
Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alison Kuah --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaBased on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Cape Town over four months, this article addresses the question of how African immigrant youth experience life and live as “citizens” in Cape Town. African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities... -
Work-place diversity climate: Its association with racial microaggressions and employee work-place well-being
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sean McCallaghan --- North-West University, South AfricaThe study examined the role of work-place diversity climate in relation to employees’ experiences of racial microaggressions (RMAs), their organisational commitment, turnover intentions, job satisfaction, and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in selected South African organisations. The employees (n = 262;... -
Strengths-based human resource system and organisational citizenship behaviour: Mediation by organisational support and moderation by tenure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: He Ding --- North China Electric Power University, China Meng Zhang --- North China Electric Power University, China Enhai Yu --- North China Electric Power University, ChinaThis study explored perceived organisational support (POS) mediation and the role of organisational tenure moderation in the relationship between the perceived strengths-based human resource (HR) system and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB). We collected data from 216 Chinese employees in different... -
Practices of health citizenship in South Africa: a case study of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ngwi Nnam Thecla Mulu --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis article examines the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) evolution and attrition as a social movement organisation to discern its implications for practices of health citizenship at the grassroots level. A qualitative approach to case study research was used to collect... -
Collective Efficacy among schoolteachers: Influences on the relationship between Trust and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: --- Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia --- Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China --- Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, MalaysiaWe explored the mediating effect of Collective Efficacy (CE) on the relationship between Trust and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) in an education setting. A total of 255 teachers (females = 56%, elementary in an urban area = 47%, mean years... -
Overqualification perception and employee voice: Mediation by dual path autonomous and controlled motivation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Enhai Yu --- School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, China Xiao Ge --- School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, China He Ding --- School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, ChinaDrawing on person–vocation fit and self-determination theory, we explored the role of the autonomous and controlled motivation in the relationship between overqualification perception and employee voice. The sample consisted of 251 employees from different enterprises in China (female = 52.6%;...