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Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction?
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/134509 Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? Beere, Nicholas Matthew Goosen, Susan De Bruin, Gideon P. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Job satisfaction -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa Employees -- Attitudes -- South Africa Work environment -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa Organizational behavior -- South Africa Teams in the workplace -- South Africa UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Beere, N. M. 2025. Do Character Strengths and Team Roles Predict Job Satisfaction?. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/c45970ab-eb28-4bde-a4c4-aec1d3bd2fea ENGLISH SUMMARY: The evolving nature of the modern workplace has led to significant changes in how organisations operate, with a growing emphasis on teamwork and collaboration. Thus, it is an organisational imperative to examine how individual character strengths and team roles contribute to job satisfaction. This study aims to investigate the influence of team roles and character strengths on job satisfaction, building upon the work of Ruch et al. (2018). The literature review indicates that the enactment of positive and morally valued traits, referred to as “character strengths”, is associated with higher levels of job satisfaction. Similarly, the presence of specific team roles within an individual may also lead to positive work outcomes. This study adopts a cross-sectional quantitative survey design, whose methodology mirrors that of the original study, employing the same procedures and instruments: the VIA-Team Role Inventory, the VIA-Strengths Inventory (P), and the Andrews and Withey Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. Data was collected from a sample of 139 working adults in South Africa. Findings supported the seven-role factor structure, providing further evidence of the validity of the VIA-Team Role Inventory. This study found that character strengths were strongly associated with team roles, which, in turn, accounted for a substantial proportion of the variation in job satisfaction. The study considers the practical implications of these findings, acknowledging methodological limitations, and offering recommendations to guide future research. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die dinamies ontwikkelende aard van die hedendaagse werkplek het gelei tot beduidende transformasies in die wyse waarop organisasies funksioneer, met toenemende klem op spanwerk en samewerking. Gevolglik is dit noodsaaklik vir organisasies om die wyse waarop individuele karaktersterktes en spanrolle tot werkstevredenheid bydra te ondersoek. Hierdie studie poog om die invloed van spanrolle en karaktersterktes op werkstevredenheid te ondersoek deur te bou op die werk van Ruch et al. (2018). Die literatuuroorsig toon aan dat die uitlewing van positiewe en moreel gewaardeerde eienskappe, waarna verwys word as “karaktersterktes”, geassosieer word met verhoogde vlakke van werkstevredenheid. In ’n soortgelyke trant kan die teenwoordigheid van spesifieke spanrolle binne ’n individu ook bydra tot positiewe werkuitkomstes. Hierdie studie het ’n dwarssnit-kwantitatiewe opname-ontwerp toegepas wat die metodologiese benadering van die oorspronklike studie weerspieël. Dieselfde prosedures en meetinstrumente is aangewend, naamlik die VIA-Team Role Inventory; die VIA-Strengths Inventory (P); en die Andrews and Withey Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. Data is verkry vanaf ’n steekproef van 139 werkende volwassenes in Suid Afrika. Die bevindings het die sewe-rol faktorstruktuur bevestig en addisionele bewyse gelewer ten opsigte van die geldigheid van die VIA-Spanrolinventaris. Die resultate toon dat karaktersterktes ’n sterk verband met spanrolle het, wat op hul beurt ’n beduidende proporsie van die variansie in werkstevredenheid verklaar het. Ten slotte oorweeg die studie die praktiese implikasies van hierdie bevindings, erken die metodologiese beperkings, en formuleer aanbevelings vir toekomstige navorsing. Masters 2025-12-11T12:35:52Z 2025-12-11T12:35:52Z 2025-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/134509 en Stellenbosch University 70 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Job satisfaction -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa Employees -- Attitudes -- South Africa Work environment -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa Organizational behavior -- South Africa Teams in the workplace -- South Africa UCTD Beere, Nicholas Matthew Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? |
| title | Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? |
| title_full | Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? |
| title_fullStr | Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? |
| title_short | Do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction? |
| title_sort | do character strengths and team roles predict job satisfaction |
| topic | Job satisfaction -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa Employees -- Attitudes -- South Africa Work environment -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa Organizational behavior -- South Africa Teams in the workplace -- South Africa UCTD |
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