Browsing Research Articles (Human Resource Management) by Title

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  • Culture and testing practices : is the world flat? 
    Ryan, Ann Marie; Reeder, Matthew C.; Golubovich, Juliya; Grand, James; Inceoglu, Ilke; Bartram, Dave; Derous, Eva; Nikolaou, Ioannis; Yao, Xiang (Wiley, 2017-07)
    There has been much speculation regarding the influence of cultural norms on the acceptance and use of personnel selection testing. This study examined the cross-level direct effects of four societal cultural variables ...
  • Determining differential item functioning and its effect on the test scores of selected PIB indexes, using item response theory techniques 
    Schaap, Pieter (OpenJournals, 2001-08)
    The objective of this article is to present the results of an investigation into the item and test characteristics of two tests of the Potential Index Batteries (PIB) in terms of differential item functioning (DIF) and ...
  • Developing and testing items for the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) 
    Hill, Carin; Nel, Jan Alewyn; Van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Meiring, Deon; Valchev, Velichko H.; Adams, Byron G.; De Bruin, Gideon P. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-11-12)
    ORIENTATION: A multicultural country like South Africa needs fair cross-cultural psychometric instruments. RESEARCH PURPOSE: This article reports on the process of identifying items for, and provides a quantitative ...
  • Development and validation of a measure to assess perceptions regarding gender-related pilot behavior 
    Vermeulen, Leopold Petrus; Mitchell, James I. (Taylor & Francis, 2007-04)
    There are several stereotypes, prejudices and preconceptions regarding female aviators' abilities and the suitability of women for a career as professional aircraft pilots. This study reports on the development and validation ...
  • The development of a diagnostic 'project management culture' assessment tool (Part 2) 
    Du Plessis, Yvonne; Hoole, Crystal (Department of Human Resource Management, University of Johannesburg, 2006)
    The growing interest in project management as a management approach requires organisations to adopt an operational culture that supports project management principles and practices. The availability of an empirically ...
  • Development of a holistic wellness model for managers in tertiary institutions 
    Botha, Petrus Albertus; Brand, H.E. (Heinrich Everhardus) (OpenJournals, 2009)
    Individuals struggle to attain optimal wellness and health levels due to unhealthy lifestyle behaviour. A holistic wellness model was developed in this study to provide a framework for a cross-sectional survey to assess ...
  • Development of a measure for perceived employment relationship quality (PERQ) 
    Potgieter, Willem Adriaan; Olckers, Chantal; Ehlers, Lukas Ignatius (UNISA School of Management Sciences, 2015)
    Studies have shown that employees react negatively towards negative supervisory behaviour. Therefore, a questionnaire that could measure the quality of various aspects of the employment relationship could be a useful ...
  • The development of a measure to assess perceptions of the advanced aircraft training climate 
    Naidoo, Prevendren; Schaap, Pieter; Vermeulen, Leopold Petrus (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
    Training attitudes and airline pilots’ specific learning experiences are antecedents, which affect human behavior on the flight deck in various ways. This article reports on the development and psychometric evaluation ...
  • The differential item functioning and structural equivalence of a nonverbal cognitive ability test for five language groups 
    Schaap, Pieter (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-10-14)
    ORIENTATION: For a number of years, eliminating a language component in testing by using nonverbal cognitive tests has been proposed as a possible solution to the effect of groups’ languages (mother tongues or first ...
  • Disclosure of business information 
    Van der Walt, Ruan; Campbell, A.W. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-09)
    The disclosure of information to employees/workers in South Africa has always been a matter which depended largely on the relationship between the employer and the employees as well as the employer’s goodwill towards the ...
  • Diversity at a critical juncture : new theories for a complex phenomenon 
    Nkomo, Stella M., 1947-; Bell, Myrtle P.; Roberts, Laura Morgan; Joshi, Aparna; Thatcher, Sherry M.B. (Academy of Management, 2019-07)
    In 2015 we issued a call for papers for a Special Topic Forum (STF) on Diversity at a Critical Juncture in response to contextual shifts that raised questions regarding the assumptions, scope, and implications of prevalent ...
  • Does extant work-family research generalize to African Nations? Meta-analytic tests 
    Hoobler, Jenny M.; Gericke, Suzanne; Koekemoer, Eileen (Taylor and Francis, 2021)
    This study explores the question of the generalizability of extant work-family research, most of which has been conducted in Western cultural contexts, to workers in African nations. We conducted a meta-analysis of African ...
  • Domestic employment : making visible an invisible relationship 
    Masterson, Courtney R.; Hoobler, Jenny M. (Sage, 2019-07)
    Globally, millions of women and men are employed to care for children, adults with physical or mental disabilities, and/or households. The outcomes of paid domestic work go far beyond the private households within which ...
  • Downsizing and the survivor syndrome : the South African case 
    Vermeulen, Leopold Petrus; Wiesner, R. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-09)
    The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical data about the effect of workforce reduction on "survivors" in the public (n=158) and private (n=71) sectors in South Africa. Analysis of the effects of workforce reduction ...
  • The effect of retention factors on organisational commitment : an investigation of high technology employees 
    Dockel, Andreas; Basson, Johan Schutte; Coetzee, Melinde (Department of Human Resource Management, University of Johannesburg, 2006)
    The objective of the present study was to investigate specific retention factors that induced the organisational commitment of high technology employees. A sample of 94 professional technicians from a South African owned ...
  • Emotional intelligence : a key human resource management competence for project managers in the 21st century 
    Barry, Marie-Louise; Du Plessis, Yvonne (Journal of Contemporary Management, 2007)
    Human resource management and the corresponding soft-skills or competencies are reported to be of significant importance for project management success. One of the measures of these soft-skills, used in recent years, is ...
  • Employees' perceptions of performance evaluation in the manufacturing industry 
    Brand, H.E. (Heinrich Everhardus); Pretorius, O.J. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-09)
    This study determines the management effectiveness of a performance evaluation system in a national manufacturing organisation. This organisation has developed and implemented a new performance evaluation system. After 3 ...
  • Entrepreneurial attitudes : a distinction between two professional groups 
    Van Wyk, Rene; Boshoff, A.B. (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2004-06)
    This study investigates discrimant ability of the Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientations Scale of 365 individuals practicing in two mutually exclusive professions (pharmacists N = 200 and accountants N = 175) on the profiles ...
  • Entrepreneurial attitudes : what are their sources? 
    Van Wyk, Rene; Boshoff, A.B.; Bester, C.L. (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-03)
    The relationship between Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientations (Robinson, Stimpson, Huefner & Hunt, 1991) and different biographic/demographic, personality and work related variables were investigated. The sample consists ...
  • Entrepreneurial training for human resource practitioners and potential services rendered to small enterprises 
    Van der Walt, Ruan; Van der Walt, S.J. (Department of Business Management, University of Pretoria & Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES), 2008)
    This article examines to what extent current South African university courses/programmes in Human Resources Management and Industrial Psychology prepare students for a career in entrepreneurship. It is argued that human ...