Browsing Department of Psychology by Issue Date
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Evaluation of the effects of vocational choice and practical training on students’ employability
(Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007-07-31)Purpose – The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the need for Kyambogo to pay special attention to students’ vocational choices, university based training and employability. Design/methodology/approach – The sample ... -
Engineering lecturers' competencies and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) at Kyambogo University
(Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007-11-06)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the relevant competencies possessed by engineering lecturers and the relationship between those competencies and the exhibited organisational citizenship behaviours ... -
Positive psychology : The Case of Uganda
(Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2008)The application of positive psychology concepts in professional psychology in Uganda is in its infancy. Both undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programmes in Ugandan universities have very limited emphasis on positive ... -
Performance management practices, information and communication technology (ICT) adoption and managed performance
(Quality Assurance in Education, 2010-04-27)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for managers of public universities to pay attention to performance management practices and information communication technology (ICT) adoption in order to ... -
Performance management practices, employee attitudes and managed performance
(International Journal of Educational Management : Emerald., 2010-08-17)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between performance management practices, employee attitudes and managed performance. Design/methodology/approach – Using a disproportionate stratified ... -
Performance management practices and managed performance: moderating influence of organisational culture and climate in public universities in Uganda
(Emerald: Measuring Business Excellence, 2011-11)The purpose of this article is to explore and explain the existence and implementation of performance management practices in four public universities in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach A mixed‐method study approach ... -
Performance management practices and managed performance: the moderating influence of organisational culture and climate in public universities in Uganda
(Measuring Business Excellence, 2011-11-15)Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore and explain the existence and implementation of performance management practices in four public universities in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-method ... -
The testimony of neoliberal contradiction in education choice and privatisation in a poor country: the case of a private, undocumented rural primary school in Uganda
(Ethnography and Education, 2015-07)With international momentum to achieve ‘Education for All’ by 2015, global attention is being paid to those parts of the world where mass formal primary schooling is relatively new. Uganda is such a place. In the context ... -
Children’s conceptions of peace in two Ugandan primary schools: insights for peace curriculum
(Research in Comparative and International Education : Sage Journals, 2017-03-28)Oppenheimer urged communities all over the world to study how children come to understand peace, conflict, and war. Set in various countries, their review of studies, as well as more recent examinations reveal trends in ... -
Determinants of persistence among science teacher-trainees: examining the role of self-efficacy, task value, and academic hope
(Journal of Science Teacher Education., 2017-10-16)Grounded in the expectancy-value and hope theories, the present study was conducted to examine the extent to which self-efficacy, task value, and academic hope predict persistence among science teacher-trainees in Uganda. ... -
Self-regulated learning among teacher education students: motivational beliefs influence on the use of metacognition
(Journal of Psychology in Africa., 2017-12-06)In the present study, we examined the relationships between motivational beliefs (self-efficacy, task value, and control of learning beliefs) and use of metacognitive learning strategies among teacher education students ... -
A study of Ugandan children's perspectives on peace, conflict, and peace-building: a liberation psychology approach
(Journal of Peace Psychology, 2018)Bulhan (1985, 2015) urged psychologists to advance their research and practice by attending to meta- colonialism, a structural phenomenon built on a history of violence and oppression that assaults all manner of individual, ... -
Problem-based learning and action learning in Ugandan universities
(Journal of Science & Sustainable Development, 2019-01)The purpose of the study was to compare the action learning approach with the traditional didactic learning and establish the relationship between problem-based learning and action learning. We employed a quasi experiment ... -
Modeling the relationship between motivational beliefs, cognitive learning strategies, and academic performance of teacher education students
(South African Journal of Psychology., 2019-02-01)Although self-regulated learning has received much attention over the past decades, research on how teacher education students regulate their own learning has been scarce, particularly in third world countries. In the ... -
Informational differences and entrepreneurial networking among small and medium enterprises in Kampala, Uganda: the mediating role of ecologies of innovation
(Cogent Business & Management, 2019-05-29)This paper examines the mediating role of ecologies of innovation in the relationship between informational differences and entrepreneurial networking among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kampala, Uganda. To ... -
Ecologies of innovation among small and medium enterprises in Uganda as a mediator of entrepreneurial networking and opportunity exploitation
(Cogent Business & Management, 2019-07-10)This paper examines the mediating effect of ecologies of innovation on the relationship between entrepreneurial networking and opportunity exploitation among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda. The study design ... -
Psychological capital, employability and work engagement in ministry of local government: the case of Mpigi district
(Kyambogo University (un published work), 2019-08)The research study was carried out on employees under Ministry of Local Government, the case of Mpigi District. The purpose of the research study was to examine the effect of Psychological capital and Employability on Work ... -
Positive deviance, ecologies of innovation and entrepreneurial networking
(World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2019-09-20)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of ecologies of innovation in the relationship between positive deviance (PD) and entrepreneurial networking among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in ... -
Technology adoption, employee engagement and perceived job performance in Uganda beverage companies a case of Hariss international limited (Riham), Kampala Uganda
(Kyambogo University (un published work), 2019-11)The study examined the relationship between technology adoption, employee engagement and how they contribute to job performance. The researcher used a cross sectional survey design using a quantitative approach. Convenience ... -
Technology Usage, Face to Face Communication and Romantic Partner Relationships A Case of the Uganda National Police Force
(Kyambogo University [unpublished work], 2019-11)The study was a correlational quantitative analysis of the relationship between technology usage, face to face communication and romantic partner relationships, using a case of the Uganda police force. The study was ...