In a new world of work characterised by competitiveness, benchmarking, technological innovation and efficiency, the South African chemical industry needs to function at an optimal level to meet the demands of its stakeholders and employees. The industry needs leadership of the highest standard and an efficient, productive workforce. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between leader empowering behaviour, self-efficacy, job resources and work-related flow for employees in the chemical industry. More specifically, it was examined whether personal and organisational resources facilitated flow at work, and whether employees who experienced flow mobilised more resources over time. The research method consisted of a literature review and an empirical study. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect the data. An availability sample (N= 213) from employees in the chemical industry was taken. A biographical questionnaire and a self-constructed instrument (JDRS) were used to measure the unique job demands and job resources in the chemical industry. Along with the JDRS, the WOrk-reLated Flow Scale (WOLF), the Leader Empowering Behaviour Questionnaire (LEBQ) and General Perceived Self-efficacy Questionnaire (GPSQ) were used as measuring instruments. The statistical analysis was conducted with the help of the SPSS program. The results of the research indicate that the availability of leader empowering behaviour (i.e. delegation of authority, self-directed decision making, information sharing, and coaching for innovative performance), self-efficacy and job resources (i.e. supervision, availability of resources and autonomy) can result in higher levels of work-related flow in the workplace. Recommendations were made for future research. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TerezaLF_TESE.pdf: 3041091 bytes, checksum: d65c032c08e1827ba95c3e7e8cfd08d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-05-30 / In the passage of life, the labyrinth of songs and corners are propitious ways for a better comprehension, perception and incorporation of learnings that emerge from our subjectiveness in a magic caught by senses. Eyesight, taste, hearing, touch and smell in communication with the world, put us in front of cultural diversities. The ludicity accumulated by experiences promote the flow of hilarious and concrete discoveries that express themselves in work and leisure demonstrations. Such reflections emerge indicators to the problematic construction centralized in the incorporation of cultural experience knowledge to the formation process and professional interventions in this rule and area. From this significant problematic, aiming to deepen studies, we favored leisure as field of investigative production in full expansion. This, for sure, was an exercise of qualification that guided us through meander of education and made us dip into studies about the corporeity. A research in which the scenery was painted and constructed with the complicity of the culture lived with shine, colors, rhythm and drummings of one of the most present cultural cycles: carnival. Recognized as a stimulant for beauty, participation, socialization, and helped us to enter in the essence of gestures and expressions of corporeity, to think, elaborate and socialize a critic-scientific knowledge which, appropriating from the rhythm of colors, of sounds, of tonalities, of senses and of meanings impregnated in the web of life. All these things seduced the researcher, making imagination flow amid ludic-creative dialogues with the imaginary of researchers creation and production in the rule and area of leisure, education and corporeity. Option that made us outline as objective to investigate and interpret how leisure teachers-researchers, from their studies, researches and interventions, locate and incorporate the knowledge from cultural experience to the formation process and intervention of professionals in this rule and in this area, emphasizing the contributions from this knowledge to fence and qualify this praxis. So, as living each cultural scenery, each epistemological contribution was feeding the production with images of the different versions of the Brazilian breedings, creating and raising expectations and new discoveries and newcomers. With the seriousness of a scientific study, we lived an xxiii academic experience with complex intensity, rigor and coherence, eliminating, step by step, the risks and limitations always present in a work of this magnitude. However, we weren t, even for one moment, alone. Our epistemic regard always maintained mediated by the principles of a methodological approach - the Etnomethodology, that while central guide provided us clues to unveil the lived world by our people-playful , in a universe of 15 members, that allowed themselves to comprehend, comment, analyze. This way, grasping the object in interactions arised and provoked by narrative interview, it was systematically dialected by (re) interpretation of images and formulations of people-playful, enriched by their beliefs, myths, conceptions and rituals inherent to knowledge from cultural experience, which each one attuned with Brazilian and international history, in a mixture of senses echoed from songs and tales. Inspired in drummings and percussions, clothing and choreographies of gestures and expressions, in mixtures produced in unit interactions in the multiplicity shown as necessary requests to the totality of life, with ludicity the rescue of the past, the conquest of present and the construction of future was the axle guide. This rich process of scientific creation made us realize that is possible qualify and empower the praxis in the rule and area of leisure incorporating the knowledge from cultural experience. What also becomes possible is the recuperation of objective revolutionaries and changing conditions of praxis itself with the view of strengthening and triggerment of vital elements in the rule and area of leisure. We also reaffirm that from this praxis emerge elements necessary to human formation in plenitude, by the appropriation of knowledge that guide the facing of challenges of a complex and plural world that valorize education, corporeity and leisure / Na travessia da vida, os labirintos dos cantos e recantos s?o vias prop?cias para melhor compreender, perceber e incorporar ensinamentos que afloram a partir de nossas subjetividades numa magia captada pelos sentidos. A vis?o, o paladar, a audi??o, o tato e o olfato em comunica??o com o mundo, nos colocam frente ?s diversidades culturais. A ludicidade acumulada pelas experi?ncias que promovem o fluxo de descobertas hilariantes e concretas, que se expressam nas manifesta??es do trabalho e do lazer. Tais reflex?es afloraram indicadores para a constru??o da problem?tica centrada no incorporar do saber da experi?ncia cultural ao processo de forma??o e interven??o de profissionais nesse dom?nio e nesse campo. Desta problem?tica significativa, visando e aprofundar estudos, privilegiamos o lazer campo de produ??o investigativa em plena expans?o. Este, com certeza, foi um exerc?cio de qualifica??o que nos conduziu pelos meandros da educa??o e nos fez mergulhar nos estudos sobre a corporeidade. Uma investiga??o em que o cen?rio foi pintado e montado com a cumplicidade da cultura vivida com o brilho, as cores, o ritmo e os batuques de um dos ciclos culturais mais presentes o carnaval. Reconhecido como estimulante ? beleza, ? participa??o, ? socializa??o, nos ajudou a adentrar no ?mago dos gestos e express?es da corporeidade, para pensar, elaborar e socializar um conhecimento cr?tico-cient?fico que, apropriando-se do ritmo das cores, dos sons, das tonalidades, dos sentidos e dos significados impregnados na trama da vida. Tudo isso seduziu a pesquisadora, fazendo fluir a imagina??o em meio a di?logos l?dico-criativos com o imagin?rio da cria??o e produ??o de estudiosos no dom?nio e do campo do lazer, da educa??o e da corporeidade. Op??o que nos fez delinear como objetivo analisar e interpretar como professores(as)- pesquisadores(as) do lazer, a partir de seus estudos, pesquisas e interven??es, situam e incorporam o saber da experi?ncia cultural no processo de forma??o e interven??o de profissionais nesse dom?nio e nesse campo, enfatizando as contribui??es desses saberes para potencializar e qualificar essa pr?xis. Assim, ao viver cada cen?rio cultural, cada contribui??o epistemol?gica foi alimentando a produ??o com imagens das diferentes vers?es das mesti?agens brasileiras, gerando expectativas e cultivando novas descobertas e revela??es. Com a seriedade de um estudo cient?fico, vivemos uma experi?ncia acad?mica com intensidade complexa, xxi rigor e coer?ncia, eliminando, passo a passo os riscos e as limita??es sempre presentes em uma tarefa desse porte. Mas n?o estivemos, nem por um s? momento, sozinhas. Nosso olhar epist?mico manteve-se sempre mediado pelos princ?pios de uma abordagem metodol?gica a Etnometodologia, que enquanto guia nucleadora nos proporcionou pistas para desvelar o mundo vivido de nossos atores-brincantes, num universo de 15 integrantes, que se permitiram compreender, comentar, analisar. Assim, apreendendo o objeto em intera??es surgidas e provocadas pela entrevista narrativa, foi sistematicamente dialetizado pela (re)interpreta??o das imagens e das formula??es dos atores-brincantes, enriquecidas por suas cren?as, mitos, concep??es e ritualiza??es inerentes ao saber da experi?ncia cultural, que cada um sintonizou com a historicidade brasileira e internacional, numa mistura de sentidos ecoados dos cantos e contos. Inspiradas pelos batuques e atabaques, indument?rias e coreografias dos gestos e das express?es, em misturas produzidas nas intera??es da unidade na multiplicidade manifesta como inst?ncias necess?rias ? totalidade da vida, com ludicidade o resgate do passado, a conquista do presente e a constru??o do futuro foi o eixo norteador. Este rico processo de cria??o cient?fica nos faz reconhecer ser poss?vel qualificar e potencializar a pr?xis no dom?nio e no campo do lazer incorporando o saber da experi?ncia cultural. O que torna-se poss?vel, tamb?m, recuperar as condi??es objetivas revolucion?rias e transformadoras da pr?pria pr?xis com vista no fortalecimento e desencadeamento dos elementos vitais ao dom?nio e ao campo do lazer. Reafirmamos tamb?m que desta pr?xis afloram elementos necess?rios ? forma??o humana em plenitude, pela apropria??o de conhecimentos que orientam o enfrentamento dos desafios de um mundo complexo e plural, que valoriza a educa??o, a corporeidade e o lazer

This cumulative dissertation, which consists of three empirical papers, one book chapter and an introductory framework paper, aims to enhance the understanding of the common good concept within an organisational context, focusing specifically on the employee level. Making use of Meynhardt’s public value approach (2009, 2015), the main objective is to identify the relationship between public value orientation and positive psychology, and to examine the relationship’s effects on individual, organisational and societal outcomes. Incorporating multiple studies, the dissertation theoretically discusses and empirically analyses to examine how employees and society perceive the organisational public value orientation and how these perceptions affects different facets of their behaviour. By leveraging psychologically established models, the relationship between organisational public value and relevant psychological constructs is explored and substantiated. In addition, this dissertation utilises the empirical results to elaborate the practical relevance for managers and organisations.