Freddie Crous
University of Johannesburg
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Journal of Psychology in Africa | 2015
Ita Geyser; Madelyn Geldenhuys; Freddie Crous
The objective of this study was to validate and explore the factor structure of the Work-Related Flow Inventory (WOLF) as a measure of flow within the South African work context. The sample consisted of N = 415 employees from various organisations in South Africa (females = 56.8%, White = 67.8%, single = 46%, English = 34.6%, 18 to 30 = 76.4% and various types of industries and positions). They completed the Work Related Flow Inventory (WOLF), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) and the Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that the WOLF has three dimensions, consisting of absorption, work enjoyment and intrinsic work motivation that fit the data best. The findings further suggest that absorption and work enjoyment relates to work engagement. Convergent validity evidence indicated work absorption, work enjoyment and intrinsic motivation to correlate with both work engagement and job satisfaction in a South African working context. Work enjoyment had the strongest link with job satisfaction.
Conceptualizing and Measuring Work Identity: South-African Perspectives and Findings | 2015
Gert Roodt; P.G.W. Jansen; Freddie Crous
This chapter provides a brief historical context and background of the South African (SA) society from which the broader work context is currently developing. A key feature of the SA society is that it is highly polarized and deeply divided around some work-related issues. Possible reasons for these tensions/divisions will be introduced in this chapter, as well as the associated challenges that these divisions may pose for broader societal change as well as more specific changes in the SA workplace.
South African Journal of Psychology | 2017
Danielle Jansen van Rensburg; Freddie Crous; Gideon P. de Bruin; Leigh Leo
Extant research has shown that incidental haptic sensations can, nonconsciously, influence judgements of objects or people that are non-diagnostic (unrelated) for the actual qualities of the items being judged – including interpersonal judgements. Evidence suggests that this could also be true for intrapersonal judgements. The application of this conception to the use of personality questionnaires lead to the following hypothesis: incidental exposure to a specific haptic experience (firmness or flimsiness of the paper) could, nonconsciously, trigger physically grounded mental frameworks, which, in turn, may effect the intrapersonal judgements of individuals completing a personality questionnaire. A randomized post-test only, one-way experimental design was conducted using a sample of university students (n = 178). The experiment found evidence to support the hypothesis that a physically grounded mental framework, consistent with embodied cognition, could nonconsciously lead participants to form stronger self-judgements on agreeableness and extraversion, when encountering an incidental haptic experience of firmness in a personality questionnaire. The findings of this research may serve to create awareness of the influence of incidental haptic sensations as a confounding variable in questionnaire design. Implications of the findings and future research directions are discussed.
Archive | 2016
Freddie Crous; Chantelle Christine Blandin de Chalain
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) was developed as a participative action research approach to organization development and change. It may, however, be argued that even though every Appreciative Inquiry addresses a particular change agenda it may also be regarded as a form of coaching. Those participating in an AI are inevitably coached towards inculcating this transformational process into their lives/work, often in an oblique manner. Nevertheless, because of Appreciative Inquiry’s dialogic nature (as opposed to being diagnostic) embedded in social constructionism coaches, committed to working conversationally, have been able to apply AI with great success. It is, not only because of its emphasis on the relational and conversational, but also because of being unconditionally positive, that Appreciative Inquiry can be constructively applied in a multicultural context. This chapter is presented in the format of a conversation between the two authors. Apart from its origins and underlying principles two compelling case studies are presented.
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology | 2006
Celeste M Taylor; Johann M Schepers; Freddie Crous
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology | 2007
B. Kanye; Freddie Crous
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology | 2009
Karen Lewis-Enright; Anne Crafford; Freddie Crous
Journal of Business Ethics | 2005
L. J. van Vuuren; Freddie Crous
Sa Journal of Human Resource Management | 2007
Riëtte Sutherland; Gideon P. de Bruin; Freddie Crous
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology | 2003
Hilda Havran; Deléne Visser; Freddie Crous