Effectiveness, productivity and motivation of police members are important factors
that contribute to a country's stability, economic growth and development. As such,
understanding experiences that police members might have with regard to the
relationship between their work and personal life is the main focus area in this study.
The objectives of this study were to determine how Afrikaans speaking police
members experience work-personal life interaction, and secondly, to determine the
main dimensions in the lives of Afrikaans speaking police members that is in
interaction with each other, and thirdly, to determine the major antecedents and
consequences of work-personal life for Afrikaans speaking police members, and
fourthly, to determine which strategies Afrikaans speaking police members use to deal
with work-personal life issues. Unstructured interviews were conducted with ten
males and females in the police stations based in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp
areas. Qualitative interviews based on the phenomenological paradigm, were used to
determine police officers perception regarding work and personal life interaction. A
Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify and interpret the research data.
Police members reported experiencing their work as stressful, in that it interfered
negatively with their lives and also had certain health implications. They further
experienced some aspects in their personal lives (e.g., household duties, family
responsibilities) interfering with their work. Furthermore, they reported using certain
strategies (e.g., communication, support from a spouse) as a way of bettering the
interaction between their work and personal lives.
Recommendations for future research were made, / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/1326 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Sekwena, Eva Kefilwe |
| Publisher | North-West University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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