Innovation and therefore the management of innovation has increased in importance in
recent times, as the need to grow, change and remain sustainable becomes a larger
focus for organisations. In general, managers are ...
The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) is responsible for the management of
Water Resources in South Africa. Its intention is to manage the Water Resources
at local level along with the users or beneficiaries.
With that ...
The Ghana government introduction of the weija dam water supply programme to the Accra
Metropolis is faced with the problem of inability to expand the treatment plant and in particular,
water supply to Kasoa community. ...
Transformation is of paramount importance within the South African context. It
offers the potential to not only create a competitive edge for those
organisations that embrace change, but also offers the opportunity to ...
In religious circles where core-business is pastoral, management has not been considered important. Meanwhile, the clergy perform managerial functions combined with their pastoral roles. The problem is that little research ...
The evolution of the social work profession is of such a nature that more emphasis is put on soft skills like listening, communication, problem-solving, empathy, among others; hence their dependence on paper-based systems ...
Prior to the 1980’s, the historically staid and conservative legal profession had
not been compelled to react to a dynamic and changing business environment;
neither had it been subjected to any meaningful form of ...
Employee recruitment plays a key role in attracting workforce to organizations.
However, fulfilling recruitment objectives is never an easy task for many organizations
especially those in the public sector. The Ministry ...
South African electricity utilities are spending billions of rand on capital
expansion projects to address an aging electricity infrastructure where capacity
has been outpaced by the growth in the economy. This expenditure ...
The growing congestion and waiting experience of passengers at airports enforces airport management to find ways of upgrading the airport environment and find analytical and simulation models that will predict a variety ...
Owing to the constraints on traditional organisations, such as limited infrastructure
and resources, companies are forming alliances and joint ventures in order to
execute large, “fast track” projects, which they would ...
The study aimed to assess whether Nonprofit Organisations (NPOs) are
utilising any systems or techniques to manage and to evaluate their
programmes. The study further aimed to establish if there is a link between
organisations ...
The performance of consulting engineers in large South African firms who work on more than one project simultaneously – each project with its own project team, different client, and scope of work, quality, budget and time ...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the extent to which the
decision making style of the selection committees of the three national South
African performing arts festivals succeeded in supplying an ...
The Belgrade Stock Exchange is the capital market operating in Serbia and Montenegro. It was established in 1989, but active share trading began only in around 2004. The purpose of this research was to test whether the ...
The presence of a predictable share price response to a surprise in announced
earnings by listed companies has been documented in US equity markets since
1968. This research investigated whether the presence of a positive ...
Marketing, as a discipline, is becoming increasingly business orientated with a
focus on internal profitability, growth and revenue projection being closely linked
to marketing activities and their impact on market ...
This research report investigates the finance and marketing perceptions of return on marketing investment (ROMI) in South Africa. Traditionally, at many organisations, marketing budgets have been determined using arbitrary ...
Limiting access to a company’s services or discouraging the demand coming
from certain customers is not an uncommon practice. Suppliers of services and
goods often select a target market that would provide a minimum ...
Guest house owners are often owner-managers whose resources of time and
money are extended to the limit. It is important that they market their
establishments wisely. The objective of this research was to investigate
...