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Botha, Yolandi(CPUT and AMH International Open Access publication of Conference Proceeding division., 2019-11-30)
The increasing pluralistic business environment, where stakeholders continually challenge the treatise of organisational primacy, places more pressure on organisations to address and prioritise diverse stakeholder expectations. ...
Barker, Rachel(University of the Free State, 2018)
The growth of e-banking as financial institutions encourage customers to do online banking transactions opened opportunities for criminals and sophisticated fraudsters to perpetrate and abuse customers in their social, ...
Slabbert, Yolandi(Creative commons With Attribution, 2018-12-20)
This article presents a new concept, “co-Change-orientated Communication” (co-COC), to address the need for theoretical developments beyond mainstream assumptions by drawing from contemporary, critical developments in ...
This article proposes a new concept, co-change-orientated communication (co-COC), which encapsulates the daily social and communication processes of organisational members in making sense of change from a critical strategic ...
Barker, Rachel; Slabbert, Yolandi(The South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2018-12-05)
The accelerated capacity of the media can be to the advantage or disadvantage of individuals. From an organisational communication perspective, it is argued that shared knowledge through inline communication media could ...
This qualitative study investigates through a case study how dialogic content, which is shared on social media, facilitates stakeholder support and builds relationships to advance a discourse of renewal. Prior research on ...
Slabbert, Yolandi(Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development, 2018-07)
Amidst challenges of economic uncertainty, resource constraints, social movement and unrest, increased pressure is placed on organisations to address diverse stakeholder expectations. Stakeholders are central to the success ...
The study presents an investigation into perceptions of white and black South African youth regarding the future of the country as well as their own prospects. The qualitative research design involved five focus group ...
This article focuses on relationships between language and identity among young black urbanites from Pretoria in South Africa. The role of black ethnic languages, Sepitori ‒ an urban variety ‒ and English are investigated. ...
Bornman, Elirea; Pauw, J C; Potgieter, Petrus H; Janse van Vuuren, Hermanus H(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)
The article discusses the responses of Afrikaans-speaking students to an open question contained in a questionnaire survey. The study focused on the factors influencing language choice in higher education and specifically ...
Bornman, Elirea; Potgieter, Petrus H; Pauw, JC(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2013)
Literature dealing with language choice in multilingual contexts shows the influence of political, social and individual factors. The global status of English influences the way speakers of other languages act in relation ...
Bornman, Elirea; Botha, Marie(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2015)
This article focuses on the professional identity development of beginner teachers in early childhood education and the foundational phase with specific reference to the teaching of Mathematics, Science and Technology ...
Bornman, Elirea; Pauw, J C; Potgieter, Petrus H(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014)
In “Attitudes regarding mother-tongue education and the choice of a university: Afrikaans-speaking students at Unisa”, we analyse responses from Afrikaans-speaking students at the University of South Africa (Unisa) to an ...
This article explores concepts and discourses regarding citizenship, nation-building and civic solidarity in particular with regard to diverse societies. Attention is given to diverging viewpoints on nation-building and ...
Since the advent of a new political dispensation, the popular Rainbow
Nation metaphor have come to symbolize the hopes of South Africans
and the international community of various ethnic and racial groups
living ...
In the introduction of this article the focus falls on the opinions of prominent South African leaders on the relationship between the majority and the minority in post-apartheid South Africa. These opinions echo the ...
This article discusses a study in which the relationships between contact frequency, experiences of intergroup contact, a number of demographic variables and intergroup attitudes were investigated. A telephone survey was ...
At the end of this chapter, you should be able to: ●show your understanding of the importance of social media branding ●explain the generic phases of a social media strategy ●list how social media content can be enhanced ...
Optimal communication with a target audience from a mobile platform remains elusive, particularly as a result of evolving phone technology and users’ privacy concerns. Since it is standard practice now for consumers to ...