SUMMARY CONSTRUCTING AND VALIDATING A MEASURING INSTRUMENT FOR COPING WITH OCCUPATIONAL STRESS by Melissa du Plessis Supervisor: Prof N. Martins Department: Industrial and Organisational Psychology Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology Orientation: Occupational stress is still a concern for both individuals and organisations, and academia is no exception. Employees’ ability to cope with occupational stressors depend on the regulatory strategies they adopt in response to the stressor. However, there is no clear consensus on how the coping construct should be measured. Existing literature further outlines various conceptual and methodological concerns regarding the measurement of coping. Van Wyk (2010) advocates that currently, no coping instrument has been developed and very few instruments have been validated in a South African and African context. Research purpose: The primary objective of this research was to construct a valid and reliable instrument for determining which coping strategies academics adopt in response to occupational stress. Research methodology: A combination of steps, suggested by scale development authors, was followed to develop the instrument. The process was broken down into three phases, namely: (1) theoretical investigation, (2) instrument purification, and (3) instrument optimisation. The construction of the questionnaire was based on a sample of 305 university employees who were permanently employed in a higher education institution in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. Main findings: The study resulted in a psychometrically sound 33-item measuring instrument. Nine empirically validated coping strategies emerged, namely (1) social coping, (2) religious coping, (3) cognitive coping, (4) active leisure coping, (5) avoidant coping, (6) social disengagement, (7) vacation time, (8) rumination, and (9) emotional coping. These strategies were further classified as adaptive or maladaptive coping strategies. CFA confirmed the nine-factor model. Empirical support for construct and content validity, internal consistency reliability v and composite reliability was available. The instrument further demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity. Contribution/value-add: The key contribution of this study was the development of a psychometrically sound instrument for determining which coping strategies academics adopt in response to occupational stress. This study further contributed to constructing and empirically testing a model for coping with occupational stress. Lastly, the study provided support for measurement invariance across different demographical groups, and the findings revealed that individuals from different demographical backgrounds differ significantly in the coping strategies they adopt in response to occupational stress. / DIE ONTWIKKELING EN VALIDASIE VAN ’N MEETINSTRUMENT VIR DIE HANTERING VAN BEROEPSTRES deur Melissa du Plessis Promotor: Prof N Martins Departement: Bedryfs- en Organisasiesielkunde Graad: DPhil in Sielkunde Oriëntasie: Beroepstres is steeds ’n bron van kommer vir individue sowel as organisasies, en die akademiese omgewing is geen uitsondering nie. Werknemers se vermoë om beroepstres te hanteer, word bepaal deur die regulatoriese strategieë wat hulle aanneem in reaksie tot die stressor. Daar is egter geen duidelike konsensus oor hoe die hanteringskonstruk gemeet behoort te word nie. Voorts dui bestaande literatuur op verskeie konseptuele en metodologiese probleme met betrekking tot die meet van streshantering. Van Wyk (2010) beweer dat daar tot dusver geen hanteringsinstrument ontwikkel is nie en baie min instrumente is in ’n Suid-Afrikaanse en Afrika-konteks gevalideer. Doel van die navorsing: Die primêre doel van hierdie navorsing was om ’n geldige en betroubare instrument te ontwikkel waarmee daar bepaal kan word watter hanteringstrategieë akademici aanneem om beroepstres te hanteer. Navorsingsmetodologie: Die instrument is ontwikkel deur die kombinasie van verskeie stappe wat deur skrywers oor skaalontwikkeling voorgestel is. Die proses is in die volgende drie fases verdeel: (1) ’n teoretiese ondersoek; (2) die suiwering van die instrument; en (3) die optimalisering van die instrument. Die vraelys is ontwerp met die oog op die steekproef bestaande uit 305 werknemers met permanente aanstellings by ’n hoëronderwysinstelling in die Gauteng provinsie in Suid-Afrika. Hoofbevindinge: Die studie het gelei tot die ontwerp van ’n psigometries betroubare meetinstrument bestaande uit 33 items. Nege empiries gestaafde hanteringstrategieë het na vore gekom: (1) sosiale hantering; (2) religieuse hantering; (3) kognitiewe hantering; (4) aktieweontspanningshantering; (5) vermydende hantering; (6) sosiale ontkoppeling; (7) vakansietyd; (8) ruminering; en (9) emosionele hantering. Hierdie strategieë is verder vii geklassifiseer as adaptiewe of wanadaptiewe hanteringstrategieë. Dié nege-faktormodel is deur BFA bevestig. Empiriese steun vir konstruk- en inhoudsgeldigheid, interne konsekwentheidsbetroubaarheid en saamgestelde betroubaarheid was beskikbaar. Voorts het die instrument ook konvergente en diskriminantgeldigheid gedemonstreer. Bydrae / waardetoevoeging: Die belangrikste bydrae van hierdie studie was die ontwikkeling van ’n psigometries betroubare instrument wat gebruik kan word om te bepaal watter strategieë akademici volg om beroepstres te hanteer. Die studie het ook bygedra tot die ontwerp en empiriese toetsing van ’n model vir die hantering van beroepstres. Ten slotte het die studie metingsinvariansies oor verskillende demografiese groepe heen bevestig en die bevindinge het getoon dat individue uit verskillende demografiese groepe se hanteringstrategieë vir beroepstres merkbaar verskil. / IQOQO LOKUBAKULEKILE UKWAKHA NOKUQINISEKISA ITHULUZI LOKULINGANISA UKUKWAZI UKUMELA UKUKHATHAZEKA NGENXA YEZIMO ZASEMSEBENZINI ngu Melissa du Plessis UMhloli Olulekayo: USolwazi N Martins Umnyango: Izifundo Mayelana Nokusebenza Kwengqondo Nomthelela Walokho Ekuziphatheni Kwabantu Emsebenzini Iziqu: UDokotela Wezifundo Zefilosofi Maqondana Nokusebenza Kwengqondo Nomthelela Walokho Ekuziphatheni Okumaqondana nakho:Ukukhathazeka okumaqondana nezimo zasemsebenzini kusayinto ehlupha abantu ngabodwana nezinkampani, kanti nezazi zezemfundo ephakeme nazo ngeke zashiywa ngaphandle. Ukukwazi kwabasebenzi ukubhekana nezimbangela zokukhathazeka ngenxa yezimo zomsebenzi kuya ngamasu okulawula asetshenziswayo ukubhekana nalokho okudala ukukhathazeka. Nakuba kunjalo, akukho ukuvumelana okucacile ekutheni lokho okwakhiwe kokubhekana nokukhathazeka kungalinganiswa kanjani. Imibhalo ekhona ibeka kabanzi okukhathazayo okwahlukahlukene okuqondene nokuqanjwa nendlela yokwenza maqondana nokulinganiswa kokukwazi ukubhekana nokukhathazeka. UVan Wyk (2010) ulwela ukuthi, njengamanje, akunathuluzi elakhelwe ukuqonda ngokukhathazeka eselike lakhiwa kanti ambalwa amathuluzi aseke aqinisekiswa eNingizimu Afrika nase-Afrika. Injongo yocwaningo:Okuyiyona njongo eqavile yalolu cwaningo ngukwakha ithuluzi elifanele nelikholakalayo ukuveza ukuthi yimaphi amasu okubhekana nezimo asetshenziswa yizazi kwezemfundo ephakeme ezimweni zokukhathazeka ngenxa yomsebenzi. Indlela ezolandelwa ekwenzeni ucwaningo:Ukuze kusungulwe leli thuluzi, kulandelwe inhlanganisela yamagxathu ahlongozwe ngababhala mayelana nokwakhiwa kwezikali. Indlela elandelwayo yahlukaniswa izigaba ezintathu, okuyilezi: (1) ukuhlolwa kwesichasiselo esibonwa ngokucabanga kwengqondo, (2) ukuhlanjululwa kwethuluzi, kanye (3) nokusetshenziswa kwangcono kwethuluzi. Ukuhlanganiswa kohlu lwemibuzo kwakuncike esampuleni lwabasebenzi basenyuvesi abangama-305 ababeqashwe ngokugcwele esikhungweni semfundo ephakeme esifundazweni saseGauteng eNingizimu Afrika. ix Imiphumela yocwaningo eqavile: Lolu cwaningo lwadala ukuba kube khona ithuluzi lokulinganisa elisebenza kahle maqondana nokukala okuphathelene nengqondo okunezinhla ezingama-33. Kwavela amasu ayisishiyagalolunye aqinisekiswe ngokubhekwa, nokuyilawa (1) ukubhekana nesimo ngokokuhlalisana nabantu, (2) ukubhekana nesimo ngokwezenkolo, (3) ukubhekana nesimo ngokokuqonda, (4) ukubhekana nesimo ngokuzibandakanya nezikaqedisizungu, (5) ukubhekana nesimo ngokuzila okuthile, (6) ukungazibandakanyi nezimo ezihlanganisana nabantu, (7) ukungcebeleka, (8) ukuzindla, kanye (9) nokubhekana nesimo ngokuba nomunyu. La masu abuye afakwa ngaphansi kohlu lwamasu okubhekana nesimo alandelekayo nangalandeleki. I-CFA yaziqinisekisa lezi zindlela ezihlukene kasishiyagalolunye. Ukwesekelwa kokubonakele ukuqinisekisa okwakhiwe nokuqukethwe, indlela yokubheka ukuthi ithuluzi elisetshenziswayo likulinganisa ngendlela efanele kangakanani lokho okubhekwayo kanye nokusebenza ngokukholakala ngokuphelele kwamaqoqo asetshenzisiwe. Ithuluzi labuye laveza ukuqinisekiseka kokufanayo nokwahlukayo. Okusebenzile/ okuhambisana nenzuzo: Okuyiyona nto emqoka kakhulu maqondana nalolu cwaningo kwaba ngukusungulwa kwethuluzi lokulinganisa elisebenza kahle maqondana nokulinganisa okuphathelene nengqondo ukubona ukuthi yimaphi amasu okubhekana nezimo asetshenziswa yizazi kwezemfundo ephakeme ezimweni zokukhathazeka ngenxa yomsebenzi. Ucwaningo luphinde lwadlala indima ekwakheni nasekuhloleni ngokubheka okwenzekayo ngethuluzi elingasetshenziselwa ukubhekana nesimo sokukhathazeka emsebenzini. Okokugcina, ucwaningo luhlinzeke ukwesekelwa kokungaguquki kwezilinganiso emaqoqweni ahlukahlukene ngokwezigaba, kanti imiphumela yaveza ukuthi abantu abaqhamuka emaqoqweni ahlukahlukene ngokwezigaba ahluka kakhulu uma kufikwa emaswini abakhetha ukuwasebenzisa maqondana nokukhathazeka ngenxa yezimo zomsebenzi. / Psychology / D. Phil.(Psychology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:26:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciano Augusto P dos Santosprot.pdf: 6487197 bytes, checksum: e10288ec2257cdcf0c5b523750b87965 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-03 / This study aims, as general objective, to identify, describe and understand the relationship between the use of educational technologies (TEs) within a elementary and secondary education institution (IEFM) and the development of dynamic capabilities (DC) in terms of sensing the environment, learn, integrate and coordinate this capabilities in the organization, as from the analysis of the evolution in the practices of this agents and the impact of their new skills on the competences of the institution, in order to offer more and better services. The achievement of these objectives took place from the dynamic capabilities theory and the vision of technology in practice. On the one hand, the theory of dynamic capabilities recognizes the importance of organizations to respond to incorporate and benefit, over time, of their environment dynamism to create and maintain their competitive advantage through changes in their routines, their processes and other capabilities through which organizations reaches new configurations of skills and resources. On the other, the vision of technology in practice allows to analyze the changing process of these capabilities through the recurring interaction between agents and devices enabling the emergence of new structures. The analysis of the dynamic capabilities development in TEs in the studied IEFM is based on a DC measurement model that identifies a set of capabilities - feel the environment, learning, integrating and coordinating - capable of reconfiguring the existing operational capabilities in an organization in new ways that are best suited to the environment. The methodology adopted is the process theory approach, in order to find a description of the trajectory of the organization, from the point of view of the process of technology in practice and the development of its technologicals competences. The strategy of this search was given from the interpretative paradigm, on a qualitative and descriptive-exploratory method, whose basic orientation is the interpretation of a social phenomenon in a case study, and the analysis technique is the narrative analysis. / Este estudo teve como objetivo geral compreender a relação entre o uso de tecnologias educacionais (TEs) e o desenvolvimento de capacidades dinâmicas (CDs) em termos das capacidades de sentir o ambiente, aprender, integrar e coordenar novas tecnologias nas capacidades operacionais de uma instituição de ensino fundamental e médio (IEFM), a partir das mudanças nas competências dos agentes; e de como tais mudanças podem se refletir em novas competências da organização, no sentido de oferecer mais e melhores serviços. A consecução desses objetivos deu-se a partir da teoria de capacidades dinâmicas e da visão da tecnologia na prática. De um lado, a teoria de capacidades dinâmicas reconhece a importância das organizações em reagir, incorporar e se beneficiar, ao longo do tempo, do dinamismo de seu ambiente para criar e manter sua vantagem competitiva por meio de mudanças nas suas rotinas, de seus processos e de outras capacidades por meio das quais as organizações atingem novas configurações de competências e de recursos. De outro, a visão da tecnologia na prática permite analisar o processo de mudança destas capacidades por meio da interação recorrente entre agentes e artefatos possibilitando que novas estruturas emerjam. A análise do desenvolvimento das capacidades dinâmicas em TEs na IEFM estudada foi fundamentada em um modelo de mensuração de CDs que identifica um conjunto de capacidades - sentir o ambiente, aprender, integrar e coordenar -, capazes de reconfigurar as capacidades operacionais já existentes em uma organização de novas maneiras e que se ajustam melhor ao ambiente. A metodologia adotada foi baseada na abordagem de processos, para buscar uma descrição da trajetória da organização, do ponto de vista do processo de uso da tecnologia e do desenvolvimento de sua competência tecnológica. A estratégia de pesquisa deu-se a partir do paradigma interpretativista, do método qualitativo e descritivo-exploratório, cuja orientação essencial é interpretação de um fenômeno social a partir de um estudo de caso, tendo como técnica de análise a análise narrativa.

Stress in non-traditional students may be associated with psychological stress which could adversely affect academic and job performance. Sense of Coherence a resource enabling people to manage tension in a health promoting could positively affect performance. The objective of this study was to investigate how SOC, time-to-degree and academic achievement influence each other in non-traditional students. A cross-sectional survey design was used in this descriptive study. The convenience sample consisted of three hundred and sixty six non-traditional students at a distance learning institution in South Africa. Secondary data for this research came from students who had completed the short form OLQ-13 as part of the official study material for a research module at a particular distance education institution. No theoretical relationship could be found between SOC, time-to-degree and academic achievement. The empirical relationship proved that SOC could not be used as a predictor of time-to-degree and academic achievement of the particular sample under investigation. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) nursing candidates related to the four-year comprehensive nursing training programme at a Nursing Education Institution in Gauteng. To this end an exploratory descriptive qualitative research design was undertaken. The research sample comprised of 13 purposefully selected participants. Face-to-face individual interviews, using open-ended questions (Grand tour), were used to collect data, which was analysed using Tesch’s approach. Findings from the study highlighted the challenges faced by nursing RPL candidates as adult students. These included challenges related to their theoretical learning as well as their clinical facility experiences. Based on the study results, recommendations were formulated in assisting them to successfully and timeously complete their nursing programme / Health Studies / M.A. (Nursing Science)

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Submitted by Priscilla Bacalhau Velloso da Silveira (priscillabvs@gmail.com) on 2018-06-21T12:13:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PriscillaBacalhau_Thesis.pdf: 2860519 bytes, checksum: e1380a290aef63cb810e6662593d647f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Katia Menezes de Souza (katia.menezes@fgv.br) on 2018-06-21T12:32:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PriscillaBacalhau_Thesis.pdf: 2860519 bytes, checksum: e1380a290aef63cb810e6662593d647f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Isabele Garcia (isabele.garcia@fgv.br) on 2018-06-21T19:17:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PriscillaBacalhau_Thesis.pdf: 2860519 bytes, checksum: e1380a290aef63cb810e6662593d647f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-21T19:17:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PriscillaBacalhau_Thesis.pdf: 2860519 bytes, checksum: e1380a290aef63cb810e6662593d647f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-25 / Attaining tertiary education has noteworthy implications for both individuals and society. This thesis is composed of three essays related to Economics of Education. The first chapter investigates whether the informational barriers prevent young students from completing high school and starting higher education, by performing an evaluation of a corporate volunteer program that aims to inform students about the benefits of finishing this level of education. The second chapter estimates the returns to college quality and to individual abilities on early career outcomes in Brazil. A new measure of the signal for college quality is proposed for these estimates. The third and last chapter performs a cost-effectiveness analysis of the public provision of higher education compared to private provision in Brazil. / Completar um curso de ensino superior tem implicações notáveis para os indivíduos e para a sociedade. Esta tese é composta por três ensaios relacionados à Economia da Educação. O primeiro capítulo investiga se as barreiras informacionais impedem que os jovens concluam o ensino médio e iniciem o ensino superior, realizando uma avaliação de um programa de voluntariado corporativo que visa informar os jovens sobre os benefícios de terminar esse nível de ensino. O segundo capítulo estima o retorno à qualidade da faculdade e às habilidades individuais nos resultados iniciais de carreira no Brasil. Uma nova medida do sinal de qualidade do ensino superior é proposta para essas estimativas. O terceiro e último capítulo realiza uma análise de custo-efetividade da provisão pública de ensino superior comparada à provisão privada no Brasil.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:01:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandro alves.pdf: 740580 bytes, checksum: 4b9856a0b7bb53c06ed48d8176e2a070 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-19 / The quantity of waste generated grows and can cause many problems to human health and the environment. Recently, increased the discussions around the management of chemical waste in laboratories for teaching and research in Brazil, with that, details emerged of how this waste could provide occupational risks, besides offering damage to the environment. Hence, the plan for managing waste to the Institute of Chemistry of the Federal University of Goiás (IQ/UFG) was idealized. At work diagnoses and predictions for each stage of waste management were executed simultaneously, in a horizon of five years of the project. We raised the chemicals and materials used and the waste-generating activities, and then identified, quantified and ranked all waste generated. The diagnosis and prognosis of segregation, minimization, packaging, storage, collection, transportation, treatment and final disposal of waste generated were prepared. The results indicated that some materials were purchased in excess and many reagents are inadequately stored in the laboratories. The management at IQ/UFG is worrying, because there is no treatment and appropriate place for the storage of waste. 900 kg of common waste and 600 kg of chemical waste are generated per year. The chromatographic analyses are the activities that generate more chemical waste and administrative work is the activity that generates more common waste. Most of the chemical waste is of class I and flammable waste represents the greater percentage. Most of the common waste is paper and cardboard. It was proposed to build a shelter for the chemical waste and the acquisition of other containers for common waste. The chemical waste will be incinerated but waste containing mercury and cyanide, which will be forwarded to a hazardous waste landfill. The common recyclable waste will be transported to recycling cooperatives and non-recyclable waste will be sent to the landfill. / Recentemente, houve um aumento nas discussões em torno do gerenciamento de resíduos químicos em laboratórios de ensino e pesquisa no Brasil, tendo em vista que esses resíduos podem oferecer riscos ocupacionais, além de danos ao meio ambiente e à saúde pública. Diante disso, foi elaborado um plano de gerenciamento de resíduos para o Instituto de Química da Universidade Federal de Goiás (IQ/UFG), com horizonte de projeto de cinco anos. Foi realizado um levantamento de reagentes químicos, de materiais de escritório e de produtos de limpeza, entre outros, e verificadas quais eram as atividades geradoras de resíduos, identificando, quantificando e classificando todos esses produtos. Foram elaborados o diagnóstico e o prognóstico da segregação, da minimização, do acondicionamento, do armazenamento, da coleta, do transporte, do tratamento e da disposição final dos resíduos gerados. Os resultados indicaram que existe desperdício de materiais e que muitos reagentes encontram-se estocados de forma inadequada dentro dos laboratórios. A maioria dos resíduos não é tratada e não possui local apropriado para armazenamento. São gerados anualmente cerca de 900 kg de resíduos comuns e 600 kg de resíduos químicos, sendo as análises cromatográficas as atividades que mais geram esses resíduos químicos. A maioria deles é da classe I, com destaque para os inflamáveis. Os resíduos comuns são, na maior parte, papel e papelão. Foi proposta a construção de um abrigo para os resíduos químicos e a aquisição de outro contêiner para os resíduos comuns. Propôs-se a incineração dos materiais, com exceção daqueles contendo mercúrio e cianeto, os quais devem ser encaminhados para um aterro de resíduos perigosos. Conclui-se que os resíduos comuns recicláveis devem ser encaminhados para cooperativas de reciclagem e os não-recicláveis para o aterro sanitário de Goiânia.

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As Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior - IFES - necessitam profissionalizar a gestão de suas atividades para atingir excelência na prestação de serviço público. Serviço este prestado por seus servidores públicos, dentre eles os técnicos-administrativos. A presente pesquisa partiu da seguinte indagação: Qual é a composição da dinâmica satis-motivacional dos administradores que fazem sua carreira na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora? O objetivo foi diagnosticar os componentes dessa dinâmica satis-motivacional que impactam o trabalho dos servidores públicos técnicos-administrativos - TAE – fazendo sua carreira no cargo de administrador numa IFES. A resposta alcançada pode subsidiar a construção de políticas motivacionais pertinentes de gestão de pessoas e a implementação de uma gestão estratégica de pessoas no âmbito da UFJF. Esta pesquisa coletou dados qualitativos mediante entrevistas realizadas com dez dos 42 administradores que compõem o quadro efetivo da UFJF. Tais entrevistas foram gravadas em áudio, transcritas e interpretadas por análise indutiva e fenomenográfica. Dentre as descobertas: (1ª) as motivações para trabalhar variam de acordo com a concepção que cada indivíduo subjetivamente elabora vivenciando o trabalho que realiza; (2ª) os fatores motivacionais que impactam positivamente no trabalho dos TAEs administradores na UFJF relacionam-se com: (i) o conteúdo do que realizam no cargo; (ii) o reconhecimento que recebem; (iii) a sensação de realização; (iv) a importância que eles mesmos atribuem ao cargo; (3ª) tais fatores motivacionais se manifestaram de acordo com duas concepções de trabalho explicitadas pelos sujeitos de pesquisa: (a) trabalho como impacto social relevante do resultado organizacional; (b) trabalho como conquista de objetivos pessoais dentro da organização. (4ª) Também se identificaram fatores motivacionais que impactam negativamente no trabalho e na motivação dos administradores bem como os que lhes trazem satisfação e insatisfação no seu trabalho. Compõem a dinâmica satis-motivacional do administrador na UFJF: o seu perfil, as atividades que realiza e o horizonte de carreira por ele almejado na IFES. Com base no diagnóstico satis-motivacional foi elaborada uma proposta de programa satismotivacional pertinente aos servidores TAE da carreira de administrador na UFJF e ao contexto organizacional. Este diagnóstico revelou indícios de estar se vivendo uma crise das motivações ligada à superqualificação do quadro de funcionários TAE que tendem a perder sua motivação pela realização de tarefas percebidas como de baixa complexidade. Os resultados são relevantes por lançar um olhar brasileiro e interpretativista do indivíduo e da dinâmica motivacional no setor público, que propicia aos gestores considerar a ótica dos próprios TAE para desbloquear o potencial motivacional de cada trabalhador e propiciar a eles realizarem sua própria remotivação dos que se encontram em processo de perda da motivação. / Brazilian society increasingly demands quality public services assuming the application of established practices in private management would support the managerial model called New Public Management, a model that aims to assist managers to meet this demand. The Federal Higher Education Institutions - FHEI - need to professionalize the management to achieve excellence in public service. This research started asking: What is the composition of the satis-motivational dynamics of the administrators‘ who work at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora – UFJF? The research goal was to diagnose the components of the satis-motivational dynamics that impacts the work of the technical-administrative civil servants - TA - who make their professional career in the position of administrator in the FHEI. The answer achieved may subsidize the construction of pertinent policies of people management and the implementation of strategic people management within the UFJF. Qualitative data was collected through interviews with ten out of the 42 administrators who work at UFJF. Such interviews were recorded in audio, transcribed and interpreted by inductive and phenomenographic analysis procedures. The main findings: (1st) motivation to work vary according to the conception of work developed by each individual through subjectively experiencing the performed work; (2d) the motivational factors that positively impact the work of TAs administrators in UFJF are related to: (i) the content of the job they perform; (ii) the recognition they receive; (iii) their sense of accomplishment; (iv) the importance they confer to their work; (3d) such motivational factors manifested according to two working concepts revealed by the interviewees: (a) work as having relevant social impact of organizational results; (B) work as an achievement of personal goals within the organization. It were also identified motivational factors that negatively impact the TA administrators‘ motivation as well as the ones that bring them satisfaction and dissatisfaction in their work. The administrators‘ in UFJF satis-motivational dynamic is compounded by: their profile, the activities they carried out and the career horizon they perceive at UFJF. Based on this satismotivational diagnosis it was drawn up a proposal for a satis-motivational program relevant to the administrators‘ career as technician public servants in UFJF and pertinent to the organizational context. This diagnosis revealed evidence of an existing crisis of motivations linked to the examined workforce over qualification that tends to result in a loss of their motivation when carrying out perceived low-complexity tasks. The results are relevant to launch a Brazilian interpretive perspective on individual and motivational dynamics in the public sector, that provides managers with information to release TA‘s own motivational potential and the re-motivation of those who are in a loss of motivation process. The results are relevant to launch a Brazilian interpretative perspective at the intrinsic individual motivational dynamics in the public sector, which provides managers the possibility to release the motivational potential of each worker and to propitiate their own re-motivation of those who are in loss of motivation process.

The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of nurse educators in Limpopo Province regarding their empowerment. The researcher conducted a quantitative descriptive-correlative research design to describe the perceptions of nurse educators in Limpopo Province regarding their empowerment. Laschinger's Integrated Model of Nurse/Patient Empowerment deduced from Kanter's Theory of Structural Power in organisations and Spreitzer's Psychological Empowerment Theory guided the construction of the data collection instrument. Data collection was carried out using a self-designed structured questionnaire. The population comprised all nurse educators in Nursing Education Institutions in Limpopo Province. The Ethics Committee of the Department of Health in Limpopo Province granted permission to conduct the research in the Limpopo Province. Non-probability convenience sampling was applied to obtain the participant sample for the study. The study shed light on important aspects of nurse educators' perception of their empowerment. The findings demonstrated that nurse educators perceived the concept of empowerment differently. The most incorrect perception of empowerment was that empowerment entailed paternalism rather than democratic (n=73; f=43;58.9%) and that it involved alienation rather than being inclusive, also at 58.9%. The total average scores were of concern to the researcher. The results of respondents' experience of structural empowerment varied as only 0.9%(f=1) did not indicate whether they agreed or disagreed that structural empowerment existed at the NEIs. 40.4% (f=44) indicated/agreed to have experienced psychological empowerment while 57.8% (f=63) have not experienced psychological empowerment. The findings related to association amongst the constructs indicated that gender was not associated with structural empowerment as well as psychological empowerment (p-value less than 0.05). There was no association between the highest qualification and structural empowerment (50.5% (f=55). However, 57% (f=63) agreed that there was an association between the highest qualification and psychological empowerment of respondents. The respondents disagreed that years of teaching experience (50.5% (f=55) was associated with structural empowerment, while 48.6% (f=53) believed it existed. The respondents indicated that no association existed between the campus they were placed at and structural empowerment (50.9% (f=55) while 57.8% (f=62) agreed that the campus placement was associated with structural empowerment as well as being associated with psychological empowerment at 56.5% (f=61). The discipline in which the nurse educators were teaching was not associated with either their structural empowerment (p=843 more than p=0.05) or their psychological empowerment at p=0.955 more than p=0.005). The respondents agreed that the discipline they taught was associated with their psychological empowerment at 55.9% (f=57); however, no statistically significant association existed at p-value 0.665 more than p-value 0.005. As the results indicated, the concept of empowerment yielded various perceptions of nurse educators. The results demonstrated the necessity to develop empowerment programmes for nurse educators at the NEIs. / Maikemišetso a dinyakišiso tše e be e le go hlalosa maikutlo a bafahluši ba baoki mo Profentshing ya Limpopo mabapi le ka fao ba boning matlafatšo ya bona. Go šomišitšwe motheo was hlaloso-kamano go hwetša maikutlo a mafahluši ba baoki. Dinyakišišo di be di ithekgilwe ka kgopolo-kgolo ya Laschinger ya matlafatšo ya balwetši, a e tsere go tšwa kgopolong-kgolo ya Kanter ya matlafatšo mo mešomong le matlafatšo ya megopolo ya go ngwalwa ke Spreitzer. Dikgopolo-kgolo tše di šomišitšwe go aga/dira gore monyakišiši a kgone go hwetša maikutlo a mafahloši ba baoki mo kholetšheng ya baoki. Dinyakišišo tše di itheilwe godimo ga mafahloši ba baoki ka moka mo kholetšheng ya baoki ya profense ya Limpopo. Komiti ya maitshwaro a mabotse mo Lefapheng la Maphelo e file monyakišiši tumelelo ya go dira porotšeke ye. Porotšeke ye e laiditše seemo sa matlafatšo ya mafahluši ba baoki mo porofentsheng ya Limpopo. Dipoelo tša dinyakišišo tše di bontšhitše gore mafahluši ba baoki ma na le maikutlo a a fapaneng mabapi le matlafatšo ya bona. Seo se sa kgotsofatšeng ke gore bafahlušhi ba baoki ba (n=73; f=43;58.9%) ga ba laetša maikutlo a a nyakegang ka gore ba bontšhitše gore matlafatšo mo kholetšeng ya baoki ke kgateleo go na le gore ke temokerasi. Mafahluši ba 58.9% ba rile matlafatšo ke go bea motho thoko bakeng sa go dumela polelo ya maikutlo a lokologilego. Taba ye ke yona e tshwentsego monyakisisi. Dipoelo di bontšhitse gore palo ya bafahlušhi ba baoki e lego 0.9% (f=1) ga se e dumele goba go gana gore go na le matlafatšo mo ba šomago. Mafahluši ba 40.4% (f=44) ba bontshitše gore ba bone gore go na le matlafatšo ba mogopolo mola ba 57.8% (f=63) ba bontšhitše gore gab a ikwa ba matlafaditšwe mogopolong. Dipoelo di bontšha gape gore ga go na kamano magareng ga bong le matlafatšo ya mo mošomong. Gape, ga gona matlafatšo magareng ga go rutega le matlafatšo mo mošomong (50.5% (f=55). Ka go le lengwe, mafahluši ba baoki ba 57% (f=63) ba dumetše gore gona le kamano magareng ga go rutega le mafatšo ya mogopolo. Palo ba bona e lego (50.5% (f=55) e bontšhitše gore gona kamano ya matlafatšo le maitemogelo mola ba (48.6% (f=53) bas a kwane le kgopolo ya gore gona le kamano / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

Includes bibliographical references: leaves 255-277 / Self-leadership has emerged as a leadership style that can be utilised to achieve successful performance for the individual and the organisation, prompting the question: What can be done to facilitate self-leadership within nurse educators in nursing education institutions? The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive sequential mixed-methods study was to understand the self-leadership within nurse educators in order to develop guidelines that could facilitate their self-leadership. The integrative literature review, qualitative and quantitative data were integrated and used to develop and validate guidelines that could facilitate self-leadership in nurse educators. Phase 1 (subphase 1) consisted of an integrative literature review that explored and described the concept of self-leadership in nurse educators. In Phase 1 (subphase 2), semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with purposively selected nurse educators from three sampling units, namely a private nursing school, nursing college and university-based nursing departments in two of the nine provinces in South Africa to explore the nurse educators’ perception of their self-leadership, and how self-leadership could be facilitated in a nursing education institution. Phase 2 of the study entailed developing a structured questionnaire based on the findings of Phase 1. In Phase 2, quantitative data were collected from nurse educators appointed at the remaining nursing education institutions in the two provinces which were not selected for the qualitative phase of the study. This phase was aimed at determining and describing the nurse educators’ (n=265) perceptions on their self-leadership practices in a nursing education institution, using a selfadministered questionnaire. For the integrative literature review, the method of data analysis as outlined by Miles and Huberman was used (Whittemore & Knafl 2005:550– 552). The qualitative data were analysed according to Tesch’s protocol of data analysis. The themes that emerged were perceptions of self-leadership in nurse educators; engagement in self-leadership activities; motivational factors in self-leadership; and facilitation of self-leadership in nurse educators. The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistical methods (SPSS version 25). The participants gave their perceptions on 11 composite constructs. Nurse educators agreed the most on natural reward, intrinsic motivation, role modelling and shared leadership but agreed less with management support and positive self-talk. To establish rigour, the researcher utilised diverse empirical and theoretical sources as data sources, and applied strategies to ensure trustworthiness and performed validity and reliability tests. The findings of both Phase 1 and 2 were integrated to develop and validate guidelines to facilitate the self-leadership in nurse educators. Twelve guidelines were developed and were validated by field experts. The guidelines propose recommendations for nurse educators and the management of the nursing education institution, as well as other associated stakeholders such as SANC and government. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)