Orientation: This article explores enhancing goal attainment through solution-focused cognitive-behavioural (SF-CB) coaching incorporating neuroscientific principles. Research purpose: The study aimed to develop and explore the contribution of integrating neuroscience principles into an SF-CB coaching framework on goal attainment. Motivation for the study: While goal-setting is well established as…
Orientation: Leadership research in Africa often relies on measurement instruments whose cultural relevance and contextual suitability remain uncertain. Research purpose: To examine the origins and types of leadership measurement instruments used in organisational research in Africa, with a specific focus on local development and contextual adaptation. Motivation for the study: Persistent…
Orientation: We examine how financial windfalls transformed the work identities of South Africans who were featured on the television show I Blew It . Research purpose: This study focused on how individuals conceived their work identities and performed work before and after receiving money and how they reconstructed their work identities once the money declined. Motivation for the study: Little…
Orientation: Employee and career well-being contribute to organisational performance and reflect an ethical commitment to sustainable and fair treatment of employees. In digitally mediated environments such as open distance learning (ODL), technological demands influence well-being, yet existing measurement approaches often assess these dimensions separately. Research purpose: This study aimed to…
Orientation: Industrial and organisational psychology (IOP) is both a scientific discipline and a caring profession. Preparing graduates for this dual mandate requires pedagogical approaches that develop scientific competence alongside ethical awareness, interpersonal effectiveness and a commitment to human flourishing. Research purpose: This opinion article argues that Fink’s Taxonomy of…
Orientation: The role of dispositional factors in explaining the mechanism by which transformational leadership impacts employee attitudes is over-emphasised, sometimes at the expense of utilising contextual variables to explain the relationship between leadership and employee attitudes. Research purpose: The study examined the indirect roles of empowerment, performance feedback and goal…
Orientation: This study investigated the relationships between job crafting, person-job fit and job embeddedness within a South African agricultural organisation. Research purpose: The aim was to examine how job crafting, a proactive behaviour involving the redesign of tasks and social interactions, affects person-job fit and job embeddedness, hypothesising that increased job crafting leads to…
Orientation: Knowledge workers navigating hybrid and digitally mediated work environments face heightened work-to-home interaction (WHI) demands that may influence their capacity to flourish. Research purpose: This study examined whether workplace social connectedness (WSC) and positive coping behaviour (PCB) sequentially mediate the relationships between four WHI sub-dimensions and flourishing…
Orientation: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted businesses globally and changed how organisations operated and delivered services. Research purpose: This study explored the impact of COVID-19 on the private practices of psychological practitioners in South Africa. Motivation for the study: The pandemic caused economic disruption, forcing businesses to suspend services,…
Orientation: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic reshaped workplace dynamics, intensifying employee mental health needs and expanding the counselling-related responsibilities of industrial-organisational psychologists (IOPs) in South Africa, despite evidence of limited preparedness. Research purpose: This study explored how IOP professional practice in workplace counselling shifted during…
