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Relational Conflict Resolution Strategies (RCRS) and Workplace Frustration
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bolanle Ogungbamila --- Adekunle Ajasin University,This study examined which of the five relational conflict resolution strategies (RCRS) (i.e., confronting, withdrawing, forcing, smoothing, and compromising) usually employed by superiors to resolve workplace conflicts, best reduced the level of workplace frustration reported by their subordinates. Two hundred... -
The Impact of Changes in the Work Environment on the Place-Identity of Academics: An Exploratory Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa,The study examined the impact of changes in the work environment on the construction of place-identity among university academics. Data were collected from five academics at a large distance learning university in South Africa. The institution was undergoing major structural... -
A Cross-Cultural Exploration: Body Image in Older Black and White Women in the Workplace
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Helena Hewat --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Marlene Arndt --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaThis study investigated body image attitudes in a non-clinical sample of black and white older professional women in the workplace in South Africa. Participants were 125 professional women (white woman n=76 and black women n = 49). They completed the... -
Needlestick injuries in an era of HIV: technical and personal aspects
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marion Stevens David DickinsonHospitals are workplaces in which HIV has double significance. Needlestick accidents link patients, healthcare workers and cleaning staff through the risk of occupational exposure to HIV. Additionally, concern over needlestick injuries may embody HIV stigma, discrimination and fear. This paper... -
Human-resources strategies for managing HIV/AIDS: the case of the South African forestry industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jeff Gow --- , Australia Bligh Grant --- , AustraliaPrevious work has focused on HIV prevalence among forestry workers and the impact of HIV/AIDS on the sustainability of forest resources. Following a review of work examining the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the South African economy, this article presents original... -
HIV prevention in the world of work in sub-Saharan Africa: research and practice*
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gavin George --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Courtenay Sprague --- Graduate School of Business Administration, South Africa -
Employment discrimination and HIV stigma: survey results from civil society organisations and people living with HIV in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Laurel Sprague --- Department of Political Science, United States Sara Simon --- , Belgium Courtenay Sprague --- Graduate School of Business Administration, South AfricaThe article presents findings from three surveys of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and civil society organisations about the experience of employment discrimination and stigma in the workplace. The work seeks to contribute to efforts by businesses and other organisations... -
Myths, science and stories: working with peer educators to counter HIV/AIDS myths
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David Dickinson --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaThe failure to bring about widespread or effective behavioural change in response to South Africa's HIV epidemic requires that new forms of health communication be explored. This article reports on an action research project in which a group of workplace... -
Employees' perceptions of the Aid-for-AIDS disease-management programme, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Alan Rothberg Karen Van HuyssteenIt is estimated that 18–20% of South Africa's more than 5 million HIV-positive individuals are formally employed. Disease management programmes for these employees vary in scope and sophistication, with services provided by the employer, or third-party specialist disease managers, or... -
Use and neglect of best-practice HIV/AIDS programme guides by South African companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ronald Whelan David Dickinson Tessa MurrayNumerous guidelines set out best-practice policies for HIV/AIDS interventions in the workplace. This study analysed 14 recognised codes and guidelines to gain an understanding of the theoretical consensus regarding the key components of best-practice workplace HIV/AIDS interventions. Nine key components... -
Bridging the gap between VCT and HIV/AIDS treatment uptake: perspectives from a mining-sector workplace in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Anil Bhagwanjee Inge Petersen Olagoke Akintola Gavin GeorgeThis qualitative study sought to understand users' perceptions of the voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and HIV-treatment services offered by a mining company in South Africa, with the intention of making recommendations to improve the rates of uptake. A purposive... -
HIV epidemiology and trends in a large national manufacturing company in South Africa, 2001–2006
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Clive EvianThis paper presents epidemiological data from ongoing HIV-prevalence surveillance in a large South African manufacturing company located in various provinces, as well as one location in Swaziland. A survey of the workforce in 12 of the manufacturer's business units (BUs)... -
Common work-related musculoskeletal strains and injuries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: RM Collins --- Section Sports Medicine, DC Janse Van Rensburg --- Section Sports Medicine, JS Patricios --- Section Sports Medicine,Muscles, tendons, joints and nerves are susceptible to injury when stressed or traumatised repetitively, or over an extended period of time. Regardless of the nature of the work, a large proportion of the working population's time is spent engaged in... -
Intrinsic motivation a key enabler of African managers’ cultural intelligence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yvonne Du Plessis --- Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership, South Africa Nicolene Barkhuizen --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South AfricaThis study sought to determine manager's intrinsic motivation to engage multiculturally in the workplace as the managers varied by demographic background. Participants were a convenience sample of managers on supervisory level, middle level and senior level (n=550; Male 54.9%; Black... -
Antecedents of Bullying in the South African Workplace: Societal Context Matters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Ngao Motsei --- Department of Human Resource Management, South Africa Stella M. Nkomo --- Department of Human Resource Management, South AfricaWhile there is a growing interest in the role of organizational context in workplace bullying, little is known about how societal context may influence perceptions of bullying in organizations. Context is defined as situational factors in the external environment which... -
Workplace innovation influence on occupational safety and health
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kassu Jilcha --- School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Ethiopia Daniel Kitaw --- School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Ethiopia Birhanu Beshah --- School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, EthiopiaInnovation is an important science for the sustainable development of any country. Workplace innovation brings radical change in the workers’ environment, thereby enhancing the profitability of companies. However, most research and discussion of innovations are focussed on product development and/or... -
Psychological ownership in relation to workplace trust and turnover intent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Chantal Olckers --- Department of Human Resource Management, Claire Enslin --- Department of Human Resource Management,The study investigated the relationship between workplace trust, psychological ownership and turnover intent within a South African professional services organisation. A cross-sectional quantitative survey design was used to collect data from a purposive sample (n = 302) of skilled, highly... -
Nutrition interventions in the workplace: Evidence of best practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Np Steyn --- Knowledge Systems, W. Parker --- Knowledge Systems, Ev Lambert --- Sports Science Institute, Department of Human Biology, Z. Mchiza --- Knowledge Systems,Aim: The aim of this desktop study was to review all workplace interventions having a nutrition component, published in peer-reviewed literature between 1995 and 2006 by WHO, and to document activities that were successful, as well as possible barriers to... -
Workplace Family Resources and Service Performance: The Mediating Role of Work Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Samuel Aryee --- King's College London, United Kingdom Fred O. Walumbwa --- Florida International University, United States of America Hazel Gachunga --- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya Chad A. Hartnell --- Georgia State University, United States of AmericaDrawing on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, this study examined processes through which informal workplace family resources influence service performance. Our findings reveal that family supportive supervisor behavior (FSSB) and perceived organizational family support (POFS) relate to work engagement directly... -
Workplace ethics culture and work engagement: The mediating effect of ethical leadership in a developing world context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jeremy Mitonga-Monga --- Department of Industrial & Organisational Psychology, South Africa Aden-Paul Flotman --- Department of Industrial & Organisational Psychology, South Africa Frans Cilliers --- Department of Industrial & Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study examined the mediating effect of ethical leadership on the relationship between workplace ethics culture and work engagement among employees in a railway transport organisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The sample consisted of permanently employed... -
Positive employment relations: A qualitative meta-synthesis of the evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stacey Smith --- Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University, South Africa Elsabé Diedericks --- Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University, South AfricaThis study utilises a qualitative meta-synthesis approach to scope the evidence on qualities that define positive employment relations. The selection criteria included the identification of emerging themes, concepts and commonalities comprising positive employment relations throughout literature. Findings suggest that 21... -
Personality as a moderator between emotional exhaustion and workplace deviance among teachers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ibeawuchi K. Enwereuzor --- Department of Psychology, Ike E. Onyishi --- Department of Psychology, Ijeoma F. Onyebueke --- Department of Psychology, Lawrence O. Amazue --- Department of Psychology, Mary Basil Nwoke --- Department of Psychology,This study investigated the moderating role of personal factors of agreeableness and conscientiousness in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and workplace deviance. The sample comprised 200 teachers from nine schools in the south-eastern part of Nigeria (females = 85%; married... -
Work-role psychosocial flourishing: Its mediation role on workplace bullying and employee turnover intention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Rudolf M. Oosthuizen --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study investigated the work-role of psychosocial flourishing attributes in countering workplace bullying behaviour and turnover intention. Data on participants’ perceptions of workplace bullying behaviour, turnover intentions, and psychosocial flourishing were collected from n = 373 employees in various South... -
Psychological contract breach and workplace deviance: Does emotional intelligence matter?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anthony G. Balogun --- Department of Pure and Applied Psychology, Nigeria Taye S. Oluyemi --- Department of Pure and Applied Psychology, Nigeria Olukayode A. Afolabi --- Department of Pure and Applied Psychology, NigeriaThis study investigated the influence of emotional intelligence on the relationship between psychological contract breach and workplace deviance with feelings of violation. The participants were 232 employees of a Nigerian public sector organisation (125 males and 107 females). The employees... -
Validation of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) in a non-clinical sample of South African working adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Zonica Dreyer --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South Africa Carolina Henn --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South Africa Carin Hill --- Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, South AfricaThis study investigated the psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) in a non-clinical sample of working people. Working South African persons (N = 269; females = 62%; mean age = 33, SD = 11.5) completed the DASS-21,... -
Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace: implementing formative assessment visits
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Robert Mash --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Zelra Malan --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Julia Blitz --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Jill Edwards --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South AfricaFamily physicians have a key role to play in strengthening district health services in South Africa. There are a number of barriers to the supply of these specialists in family medicine, one of which is the quality of workplace-based training... -
Workplace incivility and organisational identification: The role of affective organisational commitment and perceived insider status
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ju Guo --- School of Economics and Management, China Yanjun Qiu --- Department of Strategy and Discipline, ChinaWe investigated the mediating role of affective organisational commitment (AC) and the moderating role of perceived insider status (PIS) on the relationship between workplace incivility (WINC) and organisational identification (OID). A total of 417 employees from 66 private Chinese universities... -
To err is human; to forgive, divine: A scoping review of workplace forgiveness experiences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Salomé Elizabeth Scholtz --- , South AfricaForgiveness in the workplace can play a crucial role in employee health and organisational outcomes. This scoping review explored the emerging evidence on employee experiences of workplace forgiveness. The search included JSTOR (2020) and Scopus databases, spanning the period 2010-2020... -
The feasibility of resistance in the workplace: A critical investigation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: A. Benda Hofmeyr --- , South AfricaIn this article, I undertake a critical interrogation of the complex relations of control operating in the contemporary workplace of the knowledge worker by drawing on Foucault’s theorisation of power and resistance. I plot the risks to which the knowledge... -
Flourishing versus languishing amongst female academics during the national lockdown in South Africa: “Sink or swim” lived work lives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christine Janse van Rensburg --- , South Africa Christel Marais --- , South AfricaWe investigated the lived workplace flourishing of South African female academics applying an interpretative phenomenological approach. Informants were female academic employees, ranging in ages from 32 to 58 years, within a university of technology. Most of the participants (60%) were... -
The role of HIV/AIDS committees in effective workplace governance of HIV/AIDS in South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Jocelyn R Vass --- Human Science Research Council,The primary purpose of this study was to assess the role, status and scope of workplace HIV/AIDS committees as a means of effective workplace governance of the HIV/AIDS impact, and their role in extending social protective HIV/AIDS-related rights to employees... -
Adoption of formal HIV and AIDS workplace policies: An analysis of industry/sector variations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Rhoda Bakuwa --- Human Resources Management, Malawi Polytechnic,Addressing HIV and AIDS is the responsibility of many stakeholders including private sector companies. However, increasing evidence reveals that the majority of companies around the world are yet to acknowledge and respond to HIV and AIDS as a workplace issue... -
Psychosocial and behavioural correlates of attitudes towards antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a sample of South African mineworkers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Kaymarlin Govender --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Olagoke Akintola --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Gavin George --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Inge Petersen --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Anil Bhagwanjee --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Candice Reardon --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal,Despite being one of the worst affected sectors in South Africa, the mining sector has proven to be one of the most active in intervention efforts in the fight against HIV and AIDS (Ellis, 2007). Owing to low uptake rates... -
HIV/AIDS stigma at the workplace: Exploratory findings from Pakistan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Sajid Bashir --- Human Resource Management, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, PakistanPeople living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) are stigmatised socially. They are devalued and considered like outcasts by having lesser opportunities for education, treatment and housing, and in an organisational context they get reduced opportunities of selection, promotion and income. The phenomena... -
Social impact of HIV/AIDS on clients attending a teaching hospital in Southern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ofonime E. Johnson [d125e19]People living with human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (PLWHA) face numerous social challenges. The objectives of this study were to assess the level of self-disclosure of status by PLWHA, to describe the level and patterns of stigma... -
A workplace intervention program and the increase in HIV knowledge, perceived accessibility and use of condoms among young factory workers in Thailand
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Aphichat Chamratrithirong --- , Thailand Kathleen Ford --- , USA Sureeporn Punpuing --- , Thailand Pramote Prasartkul --- , ThailandVulnerability to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection among factory workers is a global problem. This study investigated the effectiveness of an intervention to increase AIDS knowledge, perceived accessibility to condoms and condom use among young factory workers in Thailand. The... -
Workplace factors that influence creativity and innovation in micro and small scale enterprises: Enterprise level analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Samuel Godadaw Ayinaddis --- Woldia University, EthiopiaThis study examines the influence of workplace factors on creativity and innovation in micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The study is based on the componential model of organizational creativity to confirm the determinants of creativity of MSEs in the workplace... -
Linking servant leadership to work strains: The mediating effect of strengths use
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nan Wang --- Renmin University of China, China Yuxiang Luan --- Renmin University of China, China Rui Ma --- North Minzu University, ChinaThe current study examined the relationship between servant leadership and employees’ work strain, as well as the mediating role of strengths use in that relationship. Participants were 179 Chinese employees (female = 49%; mean age = 27 years; mean tenure... -
Strengths use in the workplace: A meta-analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: --- School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, China --- School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, China --- School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, China --- School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, ChinaThis meta-analysis aimed to clarify the relationship between perceived organisational support and core self-evaluations and strengths use and task performance outcomes utilising a cross-temporal versus time-lagged research design. Drawing on the random effects model, this study combined 44 effect sizes... -
How and when illegitimate tasks lead to cyberloafing: The role of meaningful work and appreciative leadership
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Qian Ma --- Renmin University of China, China Yuxuan Xie --- Tsinghua University, ChinaThis study examined how and when illegitimate tasks are related to employee cyberloafing with meaningful work and appreciative leadership. Participants were 289 employees of a Chinese energy firm (female = 59.5%; bachelor's degree = 75.8%; mean age = 30.86 years, SD... -
Integrating “old” truths and “new” evidence to address people's evolving career counselling needs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacobus G. Maree --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThe article examines the link between career counselling waves, helping models, theoretical foundations, and interventions. An adapted qualitative systematic literature review was conducted to facilitate examination of people's evolving career counselling needs during changes in the workplace with a view... -
Impact of workplace adversity on well-being of Ghanaian bankers: Do resilience and psychological safety matter?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Justice Mensah --- University of Ghana Business School, Ghana Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah --- University of Ghana Business School, Ghana Eric Nanteer-Oteng --- University of Ghana Business School, GhanaWe examined the role of resilience and psychological safety in the relationship between perceived workplace adversity and work well-being. Participants were 1257 Ghanaian banking sector employees (male = 49.32, female = 50.68%; age range = 21 to 60 years, mean...
