Nicolene Barkhuizen

Biographic Data

ID7740636
NAMENicolene Barkhuizen
GIVEN NAMESNicolene
FAMILY NAMEBarkhuizen
SIGNATUREBARKHUIZEN N
AFFILIATIONSNorth-West University
ORCID0000-0002-0459-6716
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Talent management practices and work-related outcomes for South African academic staff

    Musawenkosi D Saurombe, Nicolene Barkhuizen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2022

    This study explored the perception of relationships between talent management practices and work meaningfulness, happiness, and turnover intention among South African academic staff. The participants (n = 160) were from a large South African higher education institution (HEI). For a measure of talent management practices, the participants completed the Human Capital Index. Work-related outcome measures included the General Happiness Scale (GHS), …

  • Burnout and ill-wellbeing of talented professional nurses

    Nicolene Barkhuizen, Alex MolefiARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2020

    We investigated the moderating role of dispositional employability on the relationship between work burnout and ill-wellbeing of professional nurses. Our sample consisted of 433 professional nurses (female = 88.2%; black = 96.5%) from the North-West Province, South Africa. The nurses completed the Maslach-Burnout Inventory-General Survey, the General Health Questionnaire, and the Dispositional Measure of Employability. Multiple regression analyse…

  • The development of a human resource management (HRM) professional competence model

    Nico Schutte, Nicolene Barkhuizen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2016

    This study sought to develop and test a diagnostic tool for the measurement of professional human resource management (HRM) competencies in the South African context. Data on HRM competencies were collected from South African human resource (HR) practitioners (N = 189; females = 49.2%, blacks = 91.2%). Exploratory factor analyses resulted in three distinguishable HR competency dimensions: Professional behaviour and leadership (i.e. leadership-per…

  • Burnout and Work Engagement of Academics in Higher Education Institutions: Effects of Dispositional Optimism

    Open AccessNicolene Barkhuizen, Sebastiaan Rothmann et al.ARTICLEStress and Health2014

    The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among dispositional optimism, job demands and resources, burnout, work engagement, ill health and organizational commitment of South African academic staff in higher education institutions. A cross-sectional survey design was used, with stratified random samples (N = 595) taken of academics in South African higher education institutions. The results confirmed that job demands and a lack o…

  • Intrinsic motivation a key enabler of African managers’ cultural intelligence

    Yvonne Du Plessis, Nicolene BarkhuizenARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2014

    This study sought to determine manager's intrinsic motivation to engage multiculturally in the workplace as the managers varied by demographic background. Participants were a convenience sample of managers on supervisory level, middle level and senior level (n=550; Male 54.9%; Black ethnicity 64.4%). They completed the Motivational Scale of the Managerial Cultural Intelligence Measure. The data were analysed by means analysis of variance procedur…

  • Validating An Adapted Measure of Organisational Energy in the South African Context

    Rowenna Cuff, Rowenna Erin Cuff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology in Africa2013

    This study validated an adapted measure of organisational energy, namely the Energy Scapes Profile (ESP), in the South African context, considering also possible differences in perceptions of organisational energy by the participants' demographics. Participants were a convenience sample of 304 employees (females = 75.4%; Black Ethnic Group = 62%). Factor analysis resulted in a unidimensional organizational energy factor. Anova analyses showed tha…

  • Occupational Stress of Academic Staff in South African Higher Education Institutions

    Open AccessNicolene Barkhuizen, Sebastiaan RothmannARTICLESouth African Journal of Psychology2008Cited by: 5References: 30

    The objectives in this study were to identify the indicators of occupational stress for academic staff in South African higher education institutions, to analyse the differences between the occupational stress of different demographic groups, and to investigate whether occupational stressors predict ill health and a lack of organisational commitment of academics in higher education institutions. A cross-sectional survey design was used ( N = 595)…