Browsing by Author "Boshoff, A B"

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    The career anchors, job involvement and job satisfaction of professional people
    (1990) Kaplan, Richard Andrew Lewis; Boshoff, A B; Kellerman, A M
    The study was designed primarily to test the effect of career orientations on the work outcomes of job satisfaction and job involvement among South African professional people. The hypotheses relating the career orientation, job satisfaction and job involvement constructs were extrapolations from the original theory of Edgar Schein (1978,1985, 1987b). Secondary aims included an initial assessment of the psychometric properties of the measuring instruments for a South African sample, and comparisons among the 14 professional groups sampled on each of the dependent variables.
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    Decision-making in task-oriented and interaction-oriented groups
    (1974) Schach, Liane; Boshoff, A B; Du Preez, Peter
    Within an organisation, leadership involves accomplishing goals by working with and through people. This comprises the concepts of concern for the task and concern for relationships, and leadership research has been concerned with predicting the way in which these concepts interact, whether they are independent dimensions or not and how a balance may be achieved between the two. The present research follows directly on from the Ohio State Leadership studies (Fleishman and Peters, 1962) which viewed the concepts of task-orientation (Initiating Structure) and relationship-orientation (Consideration) as two separate dimensions and not as situated along a single continuum. Research following on from this (e.g. Blake and Mouton, 1964; and Hersey and Blanchard, 1969) all take this concept of these two dimensions as their starting point.