3. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) - All submissions

Permanent URI for this communityhttps://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/45

Browse

Filters

1991 - 199912010 - 20161

Settings

Has files: YesSubject: search.filters.subject.Executives--South Africa

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Identifying leadership competence
    (1991) Charlton, Guy D.
    A survey of the literature indicates that leadership is the axiom behind a successful nation, business and organisation. However findings emerging from widespread research demonstrate a lack of agreement on the nature of leadership activity. This study adopts a competence approach toward identifying what excellent leaders do. Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Lifestyle behaviours, psychological wellbeing and cardiovascular disease in women executives and senior management
    (2016) Crowhurst, Rhiannon
    This study investigated whether the lifestyle behaviours and psychological well-being of women executives and managers predicted their ten-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The sample of South African women executives and managers work in a variety of industries in the cities of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. The study sought to determine the predictability of the women executives and managers’ risk of developing cardiovascular disease through examining their level of alcohol consumption, level of physical exercise and the nutritional and dietary choices that they made as well as their level of depression, anxiety and stress. The data was gathered through an executive health and wellness programme and logistic regression and Chi-squared tests of association were used in conducting the analyses. The results suggested that the level of alcohol consumption and the nutritional and dietary choices made were predictive of the individual’s ten-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Additionally, the level of anxiety was found to be associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The results suggest that both individuals and organisations should prioritise the changing of unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, specifically excessive alcohol consumption and daily dietary choices, in order to lower their risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Copyright Ownership Is Guided By The University's

Intellectual Property policy

Students submitting a Thesis or Dissertation must be aware of current copyright issues. Both for the protection of your original work as well as the protection of another's copyrighted work, you should follow all current copyright law.