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Dr Leon Bezuidenhoud
Position
Lecturer
Department
Industrial Psychology
Address
Centre for Teaching and Learning
IB 7
UFS
Telephone
0514013001
Office
Flippie Groenewoud Building: Block A
Information

Short CV

Publications

2019:

  • Identifying Organisational Climate Elements that can be used to Detect and Prevent Management Fraud: South African Business Review Journal. 
  • Conflict management: Grain South Africa (ISSN 1814 – 1675).

 2020:

  • The relationship between personality traits, job satisfaction and job performance of retail store managers: Journal of Business and Management Dynamics.

2021: 

  • The impact of selected biographical variables on organisational climate in a service organization- International Journal of Social Sciences.
  • Merging Academic and Career Advising to offer holistic student support: A university perspective: Journal of Student Affairs in Africa. (https://doi.org/10.24085/jsaa.v9i2

2022:  

  • The Impact of Transformational Leadership Style on Innovation Behaviour among Bank Employees in South Africa during COVID-19: Journal of Business and Management Dynamics. (ISBN 978-1-928396-17-8).
  • The impact of participative management structures in improving employee participation and employee involvement under conditions of developing a New Normal in organisations: Journal of Business and Management Dynamics. (ISBN 978-1-928396-17-8).

2023:

  •  Emotional intelligence of undergraduate levels related to academic performances and stress management at the Central University of Technology, Free State (under review).

 

  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8XA6EnwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Publications (Short List)

SUPERVISOR FOR POST GRADUATE STUDENTS

 Honour degrees

Supervised more than 80 Honour dissertations within this time frame.

Master degrees

Supervised the following completed studies:

  •  The Effect Of Work-Stress And Emotional Intelligence On Self-Leadership Amongst Nurses In Leadership Positions In The Ministry Of Health And Social Welfare In Lesotho (Final mark = 65%).
  •  The perceptions of various role players on the training and instructional behaviour of tutors in a Faculty of Education at a Higher Education Institution (Final mark = 73%).

  •  The effect of emotional intelligence on the coping style and resilience among the University of the Free State Facilitators (Final mark = 68%)

  •  Adapting the 3-I Process as an academic and career advising framework: A case study (Final mark = 70%).

  •  The effect of organisational learning culture and leadership style on innovation behavior in employees working in the banking sector in South Africa (Final Mark = 71%).

Current:

 Supervising 4 Masters and 2 PhD students.

Area(s) of Interest

Organisational Development, Organisational Climate, Organisational Culture and Leadership.

Courses Presented

Post-graduate: Organisational Development on Honours and Masters level.

Community Service

  • Registered as an Industrial Psychologist at the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
  • Registration number: PS 0078808.
  • Member of the Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA).
    • Elected to the National Executive Committee
    • Regional Branch manager for the Free State Province. 
  • External advisor to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) on legal and ethical matters
  • Serve on the Continued Professional Development (CPD) Committee for the University of the Free State
  • Serve on the Unit for Psychological and Behavioural Studies Executive Committee.

  • Serve on Faculty Ethics Committee.

 

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