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The relationship between employees’ experience of performance management and work engagement within a South African organisation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Janko Kotzé --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South Africa Sanet van der Westhuizen --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South Africa Elzabé Nel --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South AfricaThe study investigated the relationship between employees’ experience of performance management and work engagement. Participants were a convenience sample of employed adults (N=202; females=59%, middle management = 48%, White = 54%, tenure more than 9 years = 48%) in an organisation in the vehicle and asset-based... -
Re-imagining decision making: addressing a discrete social driver of HIV/AIDS through the lens of complexity science
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Christopher J Burman --- The Development Facilitation and Training Institute (DevFTI), South Africa Linda Moerschell --- State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Robert Mamabolo --- The Development Facilitation and Training Institute (DevFTI), South Africa Marota Aphane --- The Development Facilitation and Training Institute (DevFTI), South Africa Peter Delobelle --- School of Public Health, South AfricaThis article argues that decision making is a discrete social driver that can be associated with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Limpopo province in South Africa. The authors argue that complexity science can inform future research and interventions by presenting... -
A blank page: feedback from first referral hospitals to primary health care clinics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: TL Legodi --- School of Health Systems and Public Health, South Africa JE Wolvaardt --- School of Health Systems and Public Health, South AfricaBackground: Primary care practitioners depend on the feedback from hospitals in order to care for returning patients effectively. Lack of such feedback from the hospitals leads to frustration, poor efficiency and care that it is not cost effective. This study... -
The evaluation of development projects. A South African anthropological perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: RD Coertze --- Centre for Indigenous Law, South AfricaThe need to equate development with a process of self-directed westernisation in the present time is explained initially in this discussion. This is followed by a discussion on the involvement of the Ethnological Section of the former Department of Development... -
Individuals’ feedback trading in market and limit trades: Trading behaviours on the Korean stock market
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Hyo-Jeong Lee --- Division of Business Administration, Republic of KoreaUsing all of individuals’ transactions on the Korean stock exchange from 1999 to 2009, I find that Korean individuals engage in negative feedback trading in market trades and positive feedback trading in limit trades. These patterns are stronger for smaller... -
Feedback trading on the JSE
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Ailie Charteris --- Development Finance Centre, Graduate School of Business, South Africa Lorraine Rupande --- School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, South AfricaSpeculators constantly search for mispriced securities, with many studying past prices to identify patterns, known as feedback trading. Positive feedback trading perpetuates a trend and is thus destabilising, as it drives prices away from their fundamental value and contributes to... -
Neuro-feedback intervention efficacy for treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johann Krynauw --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Athena Pedro --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored practitioners perceptions of a neuro-feedback intervention in treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder’s (ASD). Informants were a convenience sample of ten South African neuro-feedback practitioners registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). The data... -
Restorative effects of awe on negative affect after receiving negative performance feedback
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cynthia Atamba --- Department of Business Administration, ChinaThe present study investigated the discrete positive effects of awe on negative job affect (NJA) arising from receiving negative performance feedback from a work supervisor or a co-worker. The participants were 131 business professionals and students at a large university... -
Supervisor developmental feedback and employee performance: The roles of feedback-seeking and political skill
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Weilin Su --- School of Labor and Human Resources, China Bei Lyu --- Chinese Graduate School, Thailand Yanjun Liu --- School of Labor and Human Resources, China Hui Chen --- Chinese Graduate School, Thailand Jiayu Fan --- School of International Education, ChinaThe present study investigated the positive influence of supervisor developmental feedback on employee performance through feedback-seeking, as well as the moderating role of political skill. Employees (n = 327, females = 59.6%) of a high-tech company completed measures of supervisor... -
Leadership style and self-efficacy: The influences of feedback
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Wenbin Liu --- , China Bernard Gumah --- , ChinaThe study examined the influences of leadership style on self-efficacy and how feedback influences this relationship. We gathered data on leadership style, feedback, and self-efficacy perceptions from foreign teachers (N = 281; female = 47%; age range 20-30 = 73%;... -
The influence of developmental feedback on voice: The mediating role of organisation-based self-esteem
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Weilin Su --- , China Xinqi Lin --- , China Manuel London --- , USAWe investigated the extent to which receiving developmental feedback from the work supervisor increased employee confidence to be proactive in expressing promotive voice (e.g., offering advice) and prohibitive voice (e.g., point out problems or criticising), and the employee organisation-based self-esteem... -
Why students want to provide feedback to their peers: Drivers of feedback quantity and variation by type of course
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Zheng Zong --- , China Yanqing Wang --- , China Christian Dieter Schunn --- , USAWe researched students’ peer feedback motivation types and how the instructional context would influence feedback motivations. Participants were 138 undergraduate management majors (female = 41%; mean age = 20 years, SD = 0.5 years) taking a programming course in two... -
Stimulating employee job crafting by providing developmental feedback
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yun Guo --- , China Guobao Xiong --- , China Jianqiao Liao --- , ChinaIn recent years, job crafting has been an important topic in human resource management and has become an important issue to address with the rapid development in social economy. We utilised hierarchical linear regression analysis to test the moderating role... -
A note on cyclotomic polynomials and Linear Feedback Shift Registers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Laura Capuano --- Politecnico di Torino, Italy Antonio J. Di Scala --- Politecnico di Torino, ItalyLinear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSR) are tools commonly used in cryptography in many contexts, for example as pseudo-random numbers generators. In this paper we characterize LFSR with certain symmetry properties. Related to this question we also classify polynomials f satisfying... -
Sensitivity simulation of sea surface temperature variability in coastal waters off East Africa in relation to the Indian Ocean Dipole
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MC Manyilizu --- The University of Dodoma, TanzaniaEast African coastal waters in the tropical western Indian Ocean experience strong seasonality which varies yearly, leading to the establishment of a prominent interannual Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). This has a significant influence on regional and global socio-economic, climatic and... -
Rod temperature regulation using current and time-delayed feedback
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: V.M. Abdullayev --- Institute of Control Systems of ANAS, Azerbaijan K.R. Aida-Zade --- Institute of Control Systems of ANAS, AzerbaijanThe synthesis problem of control of objects with distributed parameters with feedback is investigated on the example of the process of heating a rod in a furnace. To generate the values of control actions, we propose to use their linear... -
Optimal control and feedback control for nonlinear impulsive evolutionary equations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Bin Yin --- Guangxi Minzu University, P.R. China Biao Zeng --- Guangxi Minzu University, P.R. ChinaThe aim of this paper is to study the existence, optimal control and feedback control for a class of nonlinear impulsive evolution equations involving weakly continuous operators. We first obtain the existence result of the evolution equation without impulse in... -
The effectiveness of feedback channels in hotels in Malawi: perspectives of guests
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Dalitso Kalipalire --- Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, Malawi Chun Liu --- Beijing International Studies University, ChinaThis study investigates the perceptions of hotel guests of the effectiveness of feedback channels available in hotels in Malawi. The study found that suggestion boxes are the most common feedback channel in hotels. The telephone is the most preferred channel... -
Reconceptualising success in hospitality internships: a new perspective on students’ achievement factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Nicole Vermolen --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsThis viewpoint article examines the challenges and factors influencing student success during hospitality internships, particularly those organised by a hotel management school in collaboration with international host companies. A previous study on the topic highlights that only 21% of students... -
Enhancing assessment quality and reducing workload in hospitality higher education: a comprehensive strategy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rodney Westerlaken --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, The Netherlands Javed Suleri --- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The NetherlandsThis viewpoint article proposes a comprehensive assessment strategy to address two critical challenges in hospitality higher education: enhancing the quality of student work, while reducing educator workload. Drawing from programmatic assessment literature and practical experience in hospitality education, we present...