Good day

My name is Dalin Adams and I am a master’s student at Stellenbosch University in the Department of Industrial Psychology. I have emailed you a while back to invite you to participate in my research survey. The survey will ask you to provide us with an assessment of how well you feel you do your job. The survey also looks at person characteristics that we feel are likely to affect employee performance. Some are likely to affect performance directly, while others work together with other characteristics to affect it indirectly. The long-term aim is to develop ways of improving performance by helping managers understand what areas are likely to improve performance and to provide a more accurate means of how it can be improved whether a person is employed or selected. Although I have received quite a number of completed questionnaires, not all those invited to participate have accepted the invitation. Since responses are anonymous I do not know who accepted the invitation and completed the questionnaire and who did not. Thank you to all those who have already completed the questionnaire. You can ignore this email.

I would like to ask those who have not yet responded to the invitation to consider doing so. No personal information will be asked that can identify you as a respondent. The only time your name will be used is when the survey is distributed to your email. This will, however, be done by an authorised person within your organisation. The information you provide while completing the questionnaire will remain completely anonymous. Your individual responses to the questionnaire will not be shared with anybody in your organisation. I will only provide a copy of my thesis to your organisation in which the results of the statistical analysis that were performed on all the data obtained from all participants from all participating organisations will be reported.

If you participate in the research you will at the end of the questionnaire be asked whether you want to enter into a lucky draw for one of two R2 000-00 Takealot vouchers. If you decide you would like to take part in the lucky draw you will be taken to a second survey, totally independent of the first survey, where your phone number will be asked. The responses in the first questionnaire can therefore not be linked with the phone numbers in the second survey.

Your organisation gave permission that I may approach and invite you to participate in my study. This study has received ethical clearance at Stellenbosch University.

If you take some time to complete the questionnaire I would greatly appreciate it. It would help me to successfully complete my master’s degree.

For more information contact: 23405929@sun.ac.za

Your time and effort is greatly appreciated.

Click on the link below to take the survey:
https://sunsurveys.sun.ac.za/surveys/THE-DEVELOPMENT-AND-EVALUATION-OF-A-GENE-IND-8

Yours sincerely
Dalin Adams