Sunday Samson Babalola

Walter Sisulu University | wsu · Department of Human Resource Management

Proactive employee behaviour (e.g., job crafting) and aligning jobs with abilities, needs, and preferences have been accorded with the potential for several organisationally desirable outcomes. This study addresses two gaps in the existing literature: the lack of empirical research on the inherent predisposition of psychological safety (PS), psycho...

Purpose – This study examined the influence of situational factors on organisational deviance and how organisational culture could mediate these factors among public employees. Aims(s) – The study aimed to identify predictors of workplace deviant behaviour in the public service and the mediatory roles of organisational cultures in these predictors....

Workplace cyberbullying, exacerbated by the growing prevalence of digital work environments, has emerged as a significant threat to employee well-being and organisational productivity. Despite increasing research attention around the world, there is a critical gap in understanding the unique context and implications of cyberbullying within African...

Throughout the history of management theories, masculine ideals have dominated the development of organisational leadership structures, often leading to a belief in the inherent superiority of men in leadership roles. Despite progress, many organisations still operate under the assumption that women are somehow deficient compared to men in leadersh...

Among several outcomes of establishing positive psychology is the character strengths construct, and the emerging literature offers much support for its usefulness in the workplace. This study investigated the association between prosocial behaviour at work (PSBW) and person-organisation fit (POF), as well as the impact of character strengths (CS)...

There is a need to complement strategic policies with discretionary environmentally friendly behaviour to ensure sustainable performance is recognised and accepted. This research investigates the impact of ethical leadership and psychological ownership on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behaviour and whether psychological ownership amplifies...

This study examined the relationships between core self-evaluation, psychological empowerment, and proactive work behaviour. Oriented by situation strength theory, the study also examined the moderation role of psychological empowerment in core self-evaluation and proactive work behaviour relationships. This study relates personal characteristics o...

The psychological well-being of the employees is well deserved, as it has numerous positive effects on organisational performance. This understanding calls for research that would identify plausible precursors of psychological well-being. The outcome of such research activities would provide guides for the positive manipulation of psychological wel...

In the work setting, several emotions can induce negative attitudes and, consequently, negative behavior. Based on the social exchange theory, the present study investigated the relationship between emotional labor strategies (surface and deep acting) and counterproductive work behavior and the mediating role of organizational cynicism in the relat...

This study assessed the effect of public service motivation and psychological empowerment on individual work performance and whether psychological empowerment moderates the relationship between public service motivation and individual work performance. The research design was cross-sectional, and a convenience sample was obtained through self-repor...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of cultural intelligence (CI) and workplace friendship (WPF) on the quality of work-life (QWL) of individual workers and to examine whether WPF mediates the relationship between CI and QWL between employees of the same nationality, but of different ethnic groups working in government-owned organisa...

This study examines the success and role of African women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In the absence of significant research on women’s STEM leadership, the success and roles of others could motivate an aspiring African woman to pursue a career in STEM. A qualitative approach was sought using open online que...

The literature makes it clear that there is a need for proactivity among employees for the effective functioning of an organisation. This study aimed to determine the effect of a leader's emotional intelligence (LEI) and role-breadth self-efficacy (RBSE) on proactive behaviour at work (PBW). The sample comprises 204 employees of selected customs cl...

Globally, a substantial amount of expenditure is made on the use of mobile phone facilities such as voice calls, text messaging and internet browsing. Is this expenditure justifiable with regards to the sustainable use of mobile phone facilities? This study investigates the role of socio-psychological factors in sustainable mobile phone facilities'...

Globally, a substantial amount of expenditure is made on the use of mobile phone facilities such as voice calls, text messaging and internet browsing. Is this expenditure justifiable with regards to the sustainable use of mobile phone facilities? This study investigates the role of socio-psychological factors in sustainable mobile phone facilities'...

The door for unethical behaviour has been swung open in most companies by excess focus on short-term profit as an exclusive measure of success. The cost of this behaviour has become phenomenal. Studies have shown how debilitating dishonesty can be in the workplace. This empirical study examined leadership style aud demographic determinants of ethic...

The door for unethical behaviour has been swung open in most companies by excess focus on short-term profit as an exclusive measure of success. The cost of this behaviour has become phenomenal. Studies have shown how debilitating dishonesty can be in the workplace. This empirical study examined leadership style aud demographic determinants of ethic...

Background A rehabilitation strategy aims to reshape the individual and prepare them to enter society with a different state of mind and start a new life after incarceration. Objective The purpose of this systematic literature review was to identify and describe the intervention strategies to promote rehabilitation programmes for youth with violen...

This study investigated the effect of self-monitoring on emotional labor strategies (surface acting and deep acting) and the moderating role of gender in development. In anchoring the relationship between self-monitoring and emotional labor, the conservation of resources theory was used, while the moderating role of gender was based on sociocultura...

The call for the growth of successful entrepreneurial activities across the globe raised the need to determine the influencing factors affecting micro-entrepreneurial growth. Hence, this study adopted a cross-sectional survey design to examine determinants of micro-entrepreneurial growth among micro-entrepreneurs. Two hundred and eighty-two micro-e...

This study examined the influence of employee psychological ownership (PO) and creative self-efficacy (CSE) on employees' creative performance (ECP) and whether CSE moderates the impact of PO on ECP. The study design was cross-sectional and quantitative, while data were collected from 148 public and private organizations. The participants comprised...

Background Violent behaviour in youth is regarded as a significant public health problem associated with severe physical and psychological consequences. Despite the availability of rehabilitation programmes rendered at child and youth care centres (CYCC's) in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, there is an escalation and repetition of violent behav...

The need to fully exploit human resources for competitive advantage has brought spirituality into the work setting. The study set to examine the predictive relationship workplace spirituality has with perceived organizational support and job performance. The assessment is premised on Rego and Cunha's five-workplace spirituality dimension model. Thi...

Compared to their men counterparts, women do not rapidly climb up the leadership ladder due to a glass ceiling obstacle. This study aims to explore the inhibiting factors demotivating Africa women’s leadership pursuit in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). A qualitative approach was adopted using online open-ended questions to...

Compared to their men counterparts, women do not rapidly climb up the leadership ladder due to a glass ceiling obstacle. This study aims to explore the inhibiting factors demotivating Africa women's leadership pursuit in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). A qualitative approach was adopted using online open-ended questions to...

Social sciences research (SSR) is an enterprise that is continuously evolving, but not without some debilitating issues that impede the realization of its full potential and usefulness. SSR, as a human initiative and activity, is discussed. The paper features the current methods and authorship issues that enhance the research outcomes’ validity. Th...

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the traditional gender power inequalities faced by women daily and has left humanity sad and overwhelmed with fear. Before our very eyes, most countries are confused and frequently shutting down outdoor activities such as schools, colleges, universities, places of worship, and markets, leaving people with no ch...

Caring behavior is fundamental in the healthcare setting. This study examined the moderation role of workload in predicting the relationship between emotional intelligence and caring behavior in healthcare organizations. This study is a quantitative, cross-sectional survey, and data was collected through a self-administered questionnaire. The sampl...

Effective functioning is the ultimate goal of every organization and this gives justification for the intense empirical interest to identify and understand the predictors of organizational effectiveness. This study examined the role of organizational strategy and entrepreneurial orientation on organizational effectiveness. The design was cross-sect...

Effective functioning is the ultimate goal of every organization and this gives justification for the intense empirical interest to identify and understand the predictors of organizational effectiveness. This study examined the role of organizational strategy and entrepreneurial orientation on organizational effectiveness. The design was cross-sect...

Workplace behaviour, including Counterproductive Work Behaviour (CWB), continues to attract scholarly enquiries. This is because it has implications in workplaces. Workplace behaviour in Nigerian tertiary institutions has largely focused on the academic staff. The present study focuses on the supporting staff as it investigates gender difference, p...

This study ascertains the predictive relationship that sustainable organisational practices have with organisational effectiveness and the mediating role of organisational identification and organisation-based self-esteem in this relationship. One-hundred and forty-five participants (62 males and 83 females) were sampled from 31 privately-owned org...

This study ascertains whether three positive organizational behaviour capacities (optimism, self-efficacy and self-monitoring) predict attitude towards organizational change. Design of this study was cross-sectional, and data were collected with self-report measure. One hundred sixty-nine employees were drawn from 21 organizations in Delta State, N...

This study examined the impact of organization ownership and organizational strategy on organizational sustainable practices among organizations in Delta State, Nigeria. The design was cross-sectional and data were collected with self-administered questionnaires. One hundred and seventy-four respondents sampled from both public and private-owned or...

The success of any organization including entrepreneurial organization depends on attracting and retaining the most valued employees through critical strategic human resource processes as studies indicate that employees’ turnover is expected to increase worldwide. This study investigated factors which are strong predictors of employee turnover inte...

The value of honesty in an organisation is inestimable, and the cost of dishonesty is hazardous to both humans and organisations. Varieties of documentations have shown how debilitating dishonesty can be in the workplace. This empirical study explores the role of perceived organisational climate (POC) in determining workplace dishonest behaviour (W...

Leadership has been subjected to so many studies examining the high performing organizations in literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating roles of leadership effectiveness and job stress on relationship between paternalism and leadership-induced stress. Survey method was used to tap responses from 276 employees from corpor...

This study explores the influence of collective bargaining and satisfaction with bargaining on employees’ job performance. A structured questionnaire was distributed to selected sample of 181 unionized employees in the public sector organizations. The results revealed two models, with the first model indicating that satisfaction with collective bar...

The call for the growth of successful entrepreneurial activities across the globe raised the need to determine the influencing factors affecting micro-entrepreneurial growth. Hence, this study adopted a cross-sectional survey design to examine determinants of micro-entrepreneurial growth among micro-entrepreneurs. Two hundred and eighty-two micro-e...

The study examines the extent and nature of mediational roles of affective and cognitive trusts on the predictive relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX) and job insecurity. Six hundred and twenty-six employees are surveyed through questionnaire administration. Analysis of the data is done with simple regression and multiple regression an...

Although organizational commitment and job performance are essential for the survival of an organization, yet scanty attention is paid to simultaneous investigation of these variables. This study set to investigate the influence of supervisor-employee relationship, perceived leadership style, and job satisfaction on organizational commitment and jo...

This study set to examine the influence of gender and entrepreneur’s operational locality on entrepreneurial knowledge and business performance. A quantitative approach using a cross sectional survey design is utilised for the study. The participants are made up of 299 micro-entrepreneurs with age ranges from 22 to 39 years old (x = 29.93 age). The...

This study investigates the influence of organisational factors and work-family role conflict on organisation commitment among working parents. The participants in the study comprise 200 employees of banking, armed forces, educational, and health institutions with a mean age 37.52 years. About 57% are men while 43.5% are women. Validated scales are...

Perception has a psychological basis and it is necessary to appreciate its application that it is not simply allied with 'sensation'. There is a gap in the knowledge of the perception of dental appearance by patients, which has implication for workers in dental organizations. This narrative review of literature highlights these perceptions and thei...

Work and family are seen as a very important aspect of human life. In our society today there is an increase in dual earner couples thereby creating an imbalance between work and family. This study investigated the influence of work-family interference and family-work interference on life satisfaction. Data were obtained from two hundred and forty-...

Today’s organisations are facing challenges of equity control, market size, and workplace diversity despite increase in profitability due to globalisation and technological advancements. This called for efficient utilization of human resource management (HRM) as its focus is on people management with the strategic proactive approach to workplace di...

This study explored the influence of commitment and job insecurity as predictors of openness to organizational change. Using a cross-section survey design, 205 employees from aviation industries in Nigeria participated in the study (58% males and 42% females; mean age = 34.21 years, SD = 7.57). Majority of the participants (87%) had at least Bachel...

The study investigated the influence of emotional intelligence on workers' behaviour in industrial organizations. This was for the purpose of determining the appropriate management strategies that could foster improved job performance, job involvement, satisfaction and commitment among the workforce in Nigeria. The study adopted ex-post facto resea...

The field of Information communication technology (ICT) is very young in research terms, especially in developing economies. The business aspect of ICT is developing fast, but the challenge of stifling completion has made it imperative for the micro-entrepreneur to adopt various strategies to keep afloat. Therefore this paper examines how the conce...

This paper examines the effect of perceived inequality and perceived job insecurity on fraudulent intent of bank employees in Nigeria. A total of 170 participants were used for the study. They were selected from five branches of commercial banks in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state, Nigeria. Perceived inequality was measured using the perceived inequality in...

The study investigated the influence of size of organization on workers behaviour (labour turnover, absenteeism, and job satisfaction and strike prone activity behaviour) in industrial organizations in South-Western Nigeria. This was for the purpose of determining the appropriate management strategies that could foster commitment, cooperation and c...

This paper presents a conceptual model of the relationships between individuals' dispositional and contextual factors in opportunity recognition. It argues that most literatures on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition focus on one or two contextual domains, thus ignoring the nature and dynamics of high-tech opportunity recognition. We propose th...

This study examined the influence of length of unemployment and perceived organisational support on employee‘s socio-emotional needs. Two hundred participating employees for this study were from Petroleum servicing companies in South Western Nigeria. One hundred and fourteen (57%) of the subjects were males while eighty-six (43%) were females. The...

This study investigates the role of Socio-psychological capital assets on identification with self-employment and perceived entrepreneurial success. The study survey was conducted on 201 skilled professional in micro-enterprise with a mean age of 38.2 years (SD = 7.34). Results of the stepwise multiple regression analysis show that need for achieve...

This study investigated the influence of psychological capital on women entrepreneurs’ innovative behaviour with 405 female entrepreneurs from Ibadan, Nigeria. The result indicates that women with high self-efficacy and internal locus of control scored higher on entrepreneurial innovative behaviour than women with low self-efficacy and external loc...

This study examined the influence of perceived financial distress and customers’ attitude towards banking in Nigeria. Two hundred and one bank customers made up of 144 males and 57 females drawn from 27 banks in Lagos participated in the study. The result of the study showed that perceived financial distress and bank account customer had significan...

Several studies have identified entrepreneurship as a key factor in wealth creations in addition to associating certain personality characteristics to its growth. The question is to what extent have these wealth creations performed ethically. The present study is set to explore the cognitive orientation (locus of control, risk taking ability and im...

This essay examines the concept of security from "profit centeredness", arguing that all pursuits of security whether at the individual, domestic, organizational, national, or international levels, have both intrinsic and extrinsic reward not only from an economic but also from a socio-psychological perspective. Security is considered as not just a...

Abstract: This paper presents a conceptual model of the relationships between individuals’ dispositional and contextual factors in knowledge management of small business. It argues that existing literature are either not focused on small business knowledge management or are narrowly directly at contextual domains. This ignores the nature and dynam...

This paper highlights the typical clinical features of aggressive periodontitis (formerly known as juvenile periodontitis in the South Western region of Nigeria), the attending psychological effect following tooth loss, and the rehabilitative management offered which included periodontal therapy, psychotherapy, and prosthetic replacement of the mis...

The study examined gender differences in careerist attitudes toward work of Nigerian managers. Participants were 150 first-line managers (75 males and 75 females) of four large industrial organisations in Lagos, Nigeria. Results revealed that male managers were significantly higher on careerist attitudes toward work compared to female managers. Ind...

Eight hundred and ninety six adolescents aged 11-25 years were recruited into this study using a multi-stage random sampling method. Overall, about 33% of them had already had first sexual experience but more males than females reported having experienced first sexual encounter. Only 3.6% of the respondents were married. One half of the sexually ex...

This is a multi-stage random sampling study involving 896 male and female adolescents aged 11-25 years in Niger State of Nigeria. Thirty three per cent of them had already had first sexual experience. Only 3.6% were married. Most of the Gwari and Hausa respondents acknowledged that they married at an earlier age than the Yoruba respondents. One hal...

This paper reports results from a multicenter study of gender differences in the stigma associated with onchocercal skin disease (OSD) in five African sites: Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria (Awka and Ibadan) and Uganda. The studies used a common protocol to compare affected and unaffected respondents, that is, men and women with onchodermatitis in highly...