Erasmus, Barney; Naidoo, Lynette; Joubert, Pierre(Athabasca University. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017-05)
The war for talent remains a challenge that many organisations face but more so for distance education institutions to deliver on its mandate to provide effective online academic offerings. The question that remains is: ...
Entrepreneurial skills stimulate entrepreneurial activities. An increase in entrepreneurial activities culminates in high economic growth, creation of employment, and alleviation of poverty. South Africa’s entrepreneurial ...
SMMEs play a crucial role in the economy of South Africa. They create employment, contribute significantly to the GDP and close the income gap. The growth and sustainability of SMMEs is important and government had put in ...
Economic and political reforms have been introduced in Ethiopia and these have boosted private investment over the last two decades. Reforms have brought about measurable improvements, but the progress of the status of ...
The performance of small businesses contribute substantially to the South African economy. In recent years the South African Government has prioritised the development of township retail industries by implementing numerous ...
There has been few research studies aimed at investigating strategy in small businesses. The current study sought to contribute to small business management and help small businesses attain success as they are important ...
The National Credit Act (NCA) was promulgated and implemented on 1 June 2007. The purpose of this research study was to outline the residential mort-gage market in South Africa in the context of the NCA and to determine ...
Despite reform processes in the employment of Supply Chain Management (SCM) as a strategic tool in the South African public sector, there are predicaments in SCM practices, especially in municipalities. This notwithstanding, ...
Tourism is one of the key industries that drive the global economy, playing a key role in
regional development. However, constant change, trends and tourist behaviour compel drive
destinations to keep track of these ...
The purpose of the study was to identify a comprehensive measure of performance by assessing the relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction on the profitability of the commercial banking industry ...
Organisations both locally and internationally spend large portions of their marketing budgets on sponsorship opportunities in order to achieve organisational and marketing objectives. The Springboks are in partnership ...
The general aim of this research was (1) to develop a holistic and integrated theoretical
model for the effective management and evaluation of occupational learning programmes in
the South African skills development ...
The need for constructive and effective sustainable community development in South Africa
is recognised as a cornerstone for national development. Having a clear understanding of
sustainable development and sustainable ...
The most perplexing question of business organizations today is how to get and sustain competitive advantage. The dependable answer to this question, as Peter Drucker stated, is defining a business in terms of customer ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the practices and processes executed by
middle managers as practitioners during the implementation of strategy. In order to do
that, this study investigated the problem of strategy ...
Employee engagement in the workplace can be beneficial towards an organisation.
Most of the scales measuring employee engagement were found not to be suitable for
the South African context. Recently, researchers developed ...
Credit consumptions are as old as human creation. Evidence suggests that more than two third of the consumer population in the developed world lives on credit, and the volume of trade credits have grown steadily over the ...
Ahmed, L.; Davis, A.; Dirkse van Schalkwyk, R.(2016)
Existing literature confirms that effective leadership contributes to motivation in a way that enhances organisational performance. This article confirms this view and reports on research that was conducted in a pharmaceutical ...
Aregbeshola, R.A.; Radebe, N. Sarah.(Academic Journals, 2012)
Compliance to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) by firms has been more of a regulatory requirement rather than a social obligation. While a few firms have entrenched policy structure to actuate meaningful responsiveness ...
Globalisation is characterised by divergent interests and opinions. The term has widely been used, in recent times, to exhibit affluence of civilisation and erudition. This explains why a single Google search under the ...