Author(s) and Title

Aim

Method

Sample

Duration of the Intervention

Outcomes of the Intervention

Key Results

Fourie, E. (2006) .

Die invloed van bestuurspanne se bestuursaksies op die werksbevrediging van opvoeders in junior sekondêre skole in die Oos-Kaap provinsie.

To measure the effectiveness of management actions of school management teams on the job satisfaction of educators.

Pre- and post-test experimental design.

Experimental group (n = 33) educators and (n = 13) managerial participants.

Control group (n = 20) educators (no managerial participants).

Nine months.

Mean scores of overall job satisfaction scores improved significantly after the implementation of the intervention in the experimental group.

All indicators on the job satisfaction questionnaire improved significantly after the implementation of the intervention.

Graham, D. (2000) .

The impact of an organisational development intervention in an educational setting.

To assess the impact of an organisational development intervention on perceptions of organisational justice, engagement in industrial action, organisational commitment, and levels of job satisfaction.

Cross-sectional research design and qualitative exploration of the results of the quantitative analysis.

No intervention group (n = 86)

Intervention group (n = 105).

Two years.

*Data indicated that the group participating in the intervention had lower job satisfaction (however not statistically significant).

Lower job satisfaction rates were explored qualitatively and found that job insecurity and dissatisfaction with monetary rewards. Findings also included that these factors cannot be addressed by the organisational development programme.