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Factors associated with conception among a sample of HIV-positive women at a hospital in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Peter Kisakye --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uganda Wilfred Owot Akena --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uganda G Kikampikaho --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uganda DanK Kaye --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UgandaConception among HIV-positive individuals is an important health and social issue. However, the proportion of HIV-positive women who conceive while being aware of their serostatus and the factors that influence this decision is not well documented. In a cross-sectional study,... -
What's culture got to do with it? Examining job embeddedness and organizational commitment and turnover intentions in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ian O. Williamson --- Associate Dean, International Relations, Helen Macpherson Smith Chair in Leadership for Social Impact, Director of the Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre, Oscar Holmes --- Assistant Professor of Management, Rutgers,Using a longitudinal design this study examines the relationship between job embeddedness, organizational commitment and turnover intentions using a sample of South African professionals. Results show that job embeddedness had a positive relationship on organizational commitment and a negative relationship... -
Person-environment fit, job satisfaction and intentions to leave: The moderating effect of leader empowering behaviour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kleinjan Redelinghuys --- Department of Industrial Psychology, Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Elrie Botha --- Department of Industrial Psychology, Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThis study sought to determine the possible indirect effect of person-environment (PE) fit on intentions to leave via job satisfaction and the moderating effect of leader empowering behaviour on job satisfaction and intentions to leave the work organisation. Participants were... -
Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Cultural Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ian K. Alexander --- Department of Food and Resource Economics, Denmark Benson Honig --- McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business, CanadaThe theory of planned behaviour is widely used to measure entrepreneurial intentions. Thus, we investigate the possible moderating role of indigenous ethnic culture on the attitude-intention, subjective norm-intention and perceived behavioural control-intention relationships. In support of the theory of planned... -
A Review of “Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Cultural Perspective”, (Ian K. Alexander and Benson Honig)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Anastacia Mamabolo --- Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa Ekaete Benedict --- University of the Free State, South Africa Hermann Ndofor --- Kelly School of Business, USAThis review of Ian Alexander and Benson Honig’s paper “Entrepreneurial intentions: A cultural perspective” highlights the importance of examining ethnicity based culture in entrepreneurship and the practical implications of Alexander and Honig’s findings. In their paper, Alexander and Honig propose... -
Self-esteem: Its mediating effects on the relationship between discrimination at work and employee organisation commitment and turn-over intention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shanice Jackson --- School of Industrial Psychology and Human Resource Management, South Africa Leon TB Jackson --- WorkWell: Research Unit for People, North-West South AfricaThis study examined self-esteem as a mediator of the relationship between perceived discrimination, employee intentions to quit, and affective organisation commitment. A convenience sample of 414 South African employees were participants (female = 44.9%; black = 42.3%; 38.2% between the age of 26 and... -
Socio-psychological factors influencing farmers’ willingness to continue participating in collaborative activities of community-based innovation platforms in eastern Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Rebecca Mukebezi --- Makerere University, Uganda Bernard Bonton Obaa --- Makerere University, Uganda Florence Birungi Kyazze --- Makerere University, Uganda Settumba B. Mukasa --- Makerere University, Uganda Irene Bulenzibuto Tamubula --- Kyambogo University, UgandaThis study employed an extended theory of planned behaviour to assess the socio-psychological factors influencing farmers’ willingness to continue participating (WTCP) in collaborative activities of community-based innovation platforms (CB-IPs). Using a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from a random sample... -
I’m betrayed and I’m gone – unless organizational leaders convince me otherwise: Perceived contract breaches, quitting intentions, and leader-related resources
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Dirk De Clercq --- Brock University, Canada Renato Pereira --- ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, PortugalEmployees’ perceptions that their organization has not met its promises toward them (i.e., perceived contract breaches) might inform their turnover intentions, in a link that also could be moderated by four relevant leader-related resources – two that reflect how organizational...