Occupational Stress in South African Work Culture

Nasima MH Carrim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on gender in management, culture, religion and minorities in the workplace from an intersectionality and identity perspective. She was the recipient of the Emerald African Management Research Fund Award in 2014 for her study of  Indian male managers’ upward mobility in corporate South Africa. In 2014, she also received the Certificate of Merit for Teaching Excellence and Innovation from the University of Pretoria for her undergraduate course in diversity management. In 2017, Prof Carrim received the 2016 Best Junior Researcher in Management Sciences in the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria. J. Alewyn Nel is a Professor and Head of the Human Resource Management Department at the University of Pretoria. He serves as an editorial board member at two journals: the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, and the South African Journal of Economics and Management Sciences. He holds various professional memberships nationally and internationally. His main research focus is centered towards the cross-cultural implications for assessment of personality, social desirability, and identity. Riana Schoeman completed a Master's degree in Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria in June 2017. She is currently employed as a human resources practitioner at a South African firm.      

Introduction and background of occupational stress and work locus of control.- Occupational stress among managers.- Causes of Occupational stress.- Consequences of occupational stress.- Work locus of control of managers.- The relationship between occupational stress and work locus of control for managers.- Concluding remarks and implications for managers and organisations.