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    The impact of employee engagement on performance in the South African gold mining industry
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2022) Rusere, Jeremy; Larbi, Lee
    The purpose of the study was to evaluate factors that influence employee engagement at five gold mining companies in South Africa as well as to determine the effect of employee engagement on employee performance. Additionally, the research aimed to recommend strategies that promote employee engagement at the concerned companies. The research followed a quantitative approach, whereby data collection was by means of a questionnaire distributed online to 600 participants out of which 329 participants provided valid responses. Standard multiple linear regression was applied to the data set to determine the cause-and-effect relationships between eight predictors (compensation, work from home, work environment, organisational policies, training and career development, team and co-worker relationship, employee wellbeing and leadership) and employee engagement. Similarly, the research applied multiple regression analysis to establish the influence of employee engagement on employee performance. The research found that compensation as well as work from home were statistically significant and positively predicted employee engagement. Based on these findings, this empirical work recommended executives of the five gold mining companies to review compensation of the workforce with a view to drive employee engagement in this economically crucial industry
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    Is gold a safe haven, a hedge or a diversifier for BRICS investors?
    (2021) Neves, Kayllen
    Gold has been around for thousands of years and its uses have evolved over time from a precious metal to a means of exchange and now as a financial asset that is traded in many forms. The characteristics of gold have been studied extensively over the years for developed markets, but few papers have looked at the metals characteristics for developing and emerging markets. This research seeks to analyse the characteristics of gold in order to establish whether the metal could act as a safe haven, a hedge or a diversifier for BRICS investors. This study replicates the methodology of Baur and Lucey (2010) and uses two principal regression models to analyse the characteristics of gold as a safe haven, a hedge or a diversifier for BRICS equity and bond markets. The property of gold as a safe haven is widely accepted, although there is few academic research on this especially within developing and emerging markets. The findings of this research show that gold is a hedge on average for Brazilian, Russian and Indian equity markets, while gold is only a hedge for Chinese equity markets at the 2,5 percent quantile. Gold however, was not found to be a hedge on average for South African equity markets. In relation to BRICS bond markets, gold was found to be a hedge for all BRICS bond markets except for the Chinese bond market. The findings of this research in relation to the safe haven property of gold for BRICS investors was not present. This implies that when the BRICS markets face extreme market turmoil, holding gold in BRICS investors’ portfolios will provide no protection against their falling bond and equity markets.