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Amos S Engelbrecht is an Emeritus Professor and works at the Department of Industrial Psychology, Stellenbosch University. Amos does research in Organizational Psychology and Leadership. Their current project is 'Integrity and ethical leadership'.
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Purpose: The first aim of this article is to assess the influence of transformational leadership and some selected psychological constructs on employee’s intention to quit an organisation.
The second aim is to develop and validate a conceptual model that depicts the linear
relationships amongst the constructs of this study (i.e. transformational le...
Background: Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) plays a substantial role in individual and organisational performance.
Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate how moral intelligence and principled leadership can influence trust in the leader and OCB.
Setting: Data were collected from 300 employees from various organisations in South A...
Background: Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) plays a substantial role in individualand organisational performance.Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate how moral intelligence and principled leadershipcan influence trust in the leader and OCB.Setting: Data were collected from 300 employees from various organisations in South Africa....
Background: The literature has extensively presented evidence to establish that employee turnover is costly and destructive to organisational processes and outcomes. Organisations in South Africa are experiencing a high rate of turnover and it is becoming increasingly difficult to retain employees whose skills are critical to organisational success...
Orientation: A need exists to investigate leader behaviour necessary to curb the corruption that has infected and weakened South Africa’s moral fibre. Such leader behaviour would need to be underpinned by a set of universal moral values.
Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a new measure, the principled leadership scale (PLS)...
Ethical leadership is important for building an organisational justice culture, which in turn plays a key role in attitude formation and performance, and can lead to a competitive advantage for many firms. In light of this, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between altruism, integrity, ethical leadership and organisational...
Over the years a great deal of research has been devoted to the study of values in relation to work, since values are strongly associated with behaviour. Although the SVS is one of the most widely used
values measures, only limited research has been conducted
on the instrument in the South African context. The SVS
may be of value in this context in...
Self-leadership has been recognised as a fundamental competency for effective learning and job
performance. The primary goal of this study was to validate the Abbreviated Self-leadership
Questionnaire on a South African sample. Numerous questionnaires have been developed to
measure self-leadership, with the Revised Self-leadership Questionnaire bei...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how leader integrity and ethical leadership can
influence trust in the leader and employee work engagement.
Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected using an electronic web-based questionnaire
completed by 204 employees from various business organisations. Data were analysed by means of...
Orientation: The increasing prevalence of theft, sabotage and other deviant behaviours in the workplace has disastrous effects for organisations, such as lowered effectiveness, escalated costs and the organisation’s declining reputation.
Research purpose: The purpose of the research was to design and investigate the relationships among perceived l...
Research design, approach and method: The sample consisted of 503 employees from the educational sector in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa. The OCBS was used to measure organisational citizenship behaviour. Main findings: High levels of reliability were found for the OCBS sub-scales. The first and second-order measurement mod...
Interpersonal trust has emerged as a significant concept in enhancing employee well-being and organisational effectiveness. Against this background, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between integrity, ethical leadership and trust in the leader. A theoretical model is proposed to demonstrate how the different constructs...
Orientation: Cultural intelligence is an essential social competence for effective individual
interaction in a cross-cultural context. The cultural intelligence scale (CQS) is used extensively
for assessing cultural intelligence; nevertheless, its reliability and validity on a South African
sample are yet to be ascertained.
Research purpose: The p...
Orientation: Team effectiveness and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) are outcomes
vital for team success. Servant leadership practices also play a critical role in team effectiveness
and OCB.
Research purpose: The goal of the study was to analyse the relationships between servant
leadership, OCB and team effectiveness in the South Africa...
Orientation: Work engagement is increasingly becoming an important outcome for organisational success. A trusting and ethical relationship between leaders and followers is likely to positively contribute to the work engagement of employees.Research purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and trus...
Orientation: Self-leadership is considered to be essential for effective individual functioning in occupational and academic contexts. The revised self-leadership questionnaire (RSLQ) is widely utilised for measuring self-leadership, but its psychometric properties have not been established on a South African sample. By implication, important quest...
Self-leadership is considered to be essential for effective individual functioning in occupational and academic contexts. The revised self-leadership questionnaire (RSLQ) is widely utilised for measuring self-leadership, but its psychometric properties have not been established on a South African sample. By implication, important questions also exi...
Orientation: Team effectiveness and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) are outcomes vital for team success. Servant leadership practices also play a critical role in team effectiveness and OCB.
Research purpose: The goal of the study was to analyse the relationships between servant leadership, OCB and team effectiveness in the South African...
Orientation: Value-based leadership practices play a critical role in teamwork in high-performance organisations.
Research purpose: The aim of the study was to empirically validate a theoretical model explicating the structural relationships between servant leadership, affective team commitment and team effectiveness.
Motivation for the study:...
Orientation: Servant leadership is a value-based leadership practice that plays a critical role in team effectiveness and organisational success. Research purpose: The goal of the study was to validate the Servant Leadership Questionnaire (SLQ), which Barbuto and Wheeler developed, on a South African sample. Motivation for the study: The literature...
Effective teamwork is one of the core components of high-performance organisations. Value-based leadership practices play a critical role in team effectiveness. The primary goal of the study was to design and conduct an analysis of the relationships between servant leadership, affective team commitment and team effectiveness. The aim of the study w...
The aim of the study was to develop and validate a theoretical model explicating the structural relationships between diversity complexity cognition, emotional intelligence and a positive attitude towards diversity in the South African business context. The sample selected for the study consisted of 237 employees from various South African organisa...
By effectively utilising the transformational leadership process, an organisation’s culture can be transformed into one that encourages ethical behaviour. The aim of this study was to validate a theoretical model to explain the relationships between leadership, integrity and an ethical climate. A non-probability sample of employees (n = 203) from m...
By effectively utilising the transformational leadership process, an organisation’s culture can be transformed into one that encourages ethical behaviour. The aim of this study was to validate a theoretical model to explain the relationships between leadership, integrity and an ethical climate. A non-probability sample of employees (n = 203) from m...
The objective of this study was twofold: Firstly, to explore and describe the perceived fairness of a disciplinary procedure in the workplace and, secondly, to develop guidelines that could be used by managers to provide a fairer experience of the disciplinary procedure. A qualitative research design was employed. In-depth interviews were conducted...
The study explores the management of South Africa’s diverse workforce by analysing the impact of the social values of ubuntu on specific characteristics of team effectiveness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with African Blacks who are members of successful work teams in a large South African company. The protocols were analysed by applyi...
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Ethical leaders are ultimately responsible for developing a strong and sustainable ethical climate in organisations. Ethical values and the ability to influence followers to internalise these values have become prerequisites for effective leadership in modern organisations. Although ethics, leadership, and values have received much attention, there...
Strategic Human Resource management plays an increasingly important role in strategic business management and organisational effectiveness. The goal of this study was to analyse the strategic partnership role of senior Human Resource managers in South African organisations. A theoretical model of the strategic partnership process was also developed...
Human resource management can make a direct and economically significant contribution to the quality of working life and enterprise performance. It is therefore of prime importance to consider risk factors relating to human resource practices in order to be able to take a comprehensive financial investment decision. The risk factors concerned relat...
Leadership and interpersonal trust are critical issues for the survival of organisations. Both aspects have been researched thoroughly, but the role organisational justice might play in this relationship has been largely ignored. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership and...
The study explores the influence of transactional and transformational
leadership on value congruence and leader effectiveness. Despite the relevance
of a leadership-value congruence relationship, a good theoretical framework is
lacking. After a review of literature on each of these areas, an integrated model
of the relationships between leadership...
In view of the importance of interpersonal trust as recognized by organizational scholars and the problems associated with the study of trust in organizations, the development of a conceptual model of organizational trust is essential. The aim of this study was to establish empirically the validity of a theoretically sound model of trust in the Sou...
To be utilized effectively and to have a positive effect on the multitude of complex challenges facing South African organizations, human resources (HR) have to be managed in a strategically correct manner. This study investigated the performance implications of two types of fit in strategic human resource management (SHRM). The results indicated t...
The purpose of this study was to determine if a developmental assessment center process improves managerial performance in the workplace. Focus was placed on the behavioral level of evaluation. The research design made use of a two-group design with random selection and a control group. A sample of 76 managers, at supervisory level, was used. Behav...
The personality traits and managerial potential of managerial motivated persons: In the ligth of criticisms of the psychometric suitability of existing measures of managerial motivation a new scale, the Managerial Motivation Questionnaire (MMQ), was developed. This was done on the basis of a comprehensive study of the literature on managerial motiv...
The object of this study was to determine if a developmental assessment centre improves managerial performance in the workplace. Focus was placed on the behavioural level of evaluation. The research design made use of a two-group design with random selection and a control group. A sample of 76 managers, at supervisory level, was used. Behaviourally...
The reliability and factor structure of the adapted multiple choice version of the Miner Sentence Completion Scale (MSCS). In this study the multiple choice MSCS was adapted as a result of several criticisms thereof. The internal consistency and factor structure of the adapted MSCS were determined to ascertain the reliability and construct validity...
The development of the Managerial Motivation Questionnaire (MMQ): Several criticisms of the psychometric suitability of existing measures of managerial motivation are reported in the literature. This study aimed at developing a new psychometrically sound instrument, the Managerial Motivation Questionnaire (MMQ). This was done on the basis of a comp...
Although a number of research studies support Locke's goal setting theory, conflicting results are encountered in the Literature which suggest further investigation into the subtleties of the theory. The results of this study indicate that an increase in goal-difficulty does not always lead to a corresponding increase in performance. The latter cou...
The relationship between job involvement, job satisfaction and job performance has been investigated. Differences in job involvement between the sexes and between full day and half day female employees were also researched. Two questionnaires and a graphic rating scale were applied to a sample of 164 clerical employees. Job involvement correlated s...
