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Occupational challenges faced by the nurses working in public health care: the case of Chesterville Clinic.
(2021)Nurses have a significant role to play in promoting good quality health care in South Africa. Therefore, it is critical for the Department of Health to have nurses who are engaged in their work. However, given the high ... -
On the effects of structuring idea generation tasks and supporting consensus building in a Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making Environment.
(1999)Decision making is a process that is characterized by several activities. For a typical semi-structured to unstructured multi-criteria task, decision-makers must go through problem exploration, the so-called intelligence ... -
Opportunities and risks associated with housing property investment in EXXARO.
(2017)Abstract Globally, a property investment has, and continues to be perceived as one of the best investment platforms. Some companies have opted to have a housing benefit linked to their organisational vacancies as a mode ... -
Optimising information sharing within the Massmart supply chain network.
(2014)The promotion-driven retail chain within the Massmart group resembles variability upstream and downstream of the supply chain. This variability may be associated with mis-alignment of supply chain activities and the in-house ... -
Optimising socio-economic benefits through competitive logistics systems, infrastructure and novel concepts for the Durban Aerotropolis.
(2020)This case-based research study contributes to the description and understanding of the Durban Aerotropolis strategy and intends to establish how it can be successfully applied, given the logistics and mobility dynamics in ... -
Organisational culture and values in the South African social security agency : a Batho Pele perspective.
(2011)Abstract not available. -
Organizational culture and job satisfaction at Tronox KZN Sands – CPC site.
(2016)ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the organizational culture and job satisfaction at Tronox KZN Sands – Central Processing Complex (CPC) site. The main reason for embarking on this study was based on the ... -
The outsourcing challenges and effectiveness of insourcing maintenance function at Eskom.
(2010)In view of the competition many organizations seek to survive by producing more, with fewer resources, in a shorter period of time (Pintelon and Parodi- Herz, 2008:21). Outsourcing maintenance of production assets over the ... -
Outsourcing or insourcing: a case study of regional hospitals in public health within eThekwini District.
(2018)Outsourcing has been adopted by public health to improve the efficiency and quality of health care services. Essentially, outsourcing of services such as catering, believed to be a non-core function, has become vital element ... -
Participatory management by political deployees in state owned companies : a case study of Regideso, Burundi.
(2011)The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which political deployees employed participatory management in state owned companies in the Republic of Burundi. The identified state owned company was REGIDESO, ... -
Pathways and barriers to inclusion: a case study of a girls' only school of industry in South Africa.
(2001)Since 1994 all education policy documents that have emerged in South Africa have stressed the principles of social justice and inclusion by foregrounding issues of equity, redress, quality education for all, equality of ... -
Pay for Performance compensation models : assessing Service Consultant’s perceptions at Momentum Health Durban.
(2018)The modern world of work is constantly shifting and naturally so is the way in which individuals are remunerated. Performance based compensation models are rising in popularity in recent years. The aim of this study was ... -
Perceived barriers to long-term survival of start-up small, medium and micro enterprises in the ICT industry: a case of Vhembe District Municipality.
(2020)Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) contribute immensely to the economic development and addressing socio-economic challenges facing South Africa (SA). This study identifies barriers affecting the long-term ... -
Perceived effectiveness of trade unions in addressing employees’ grievances in the public sector in Swaziland.
(2018)The study examined the perceived effectiveness of trade unions in addressing employees’ grievances within the public sector in Swaziland. The study explored employees’ perceptions regarding the effectiveness of trade ... -
The perceived impact of management styles on employee job satisfaction and organisational commitment: a case study of Hulamin, Pietermaritzburg.
(2022)This study, which drew on the view that the management style that a manager uses to direct their employees plays a vital role in ensuring employee satisfaction with their jobs and decisions to commit or not to their ... -
Perception and preparedness of stakeholders at hospitals to utilize a paperless environment.
(2010)The embracing of Health Information Technology (HIT) by hospitals is viewed as one mechanism to mitigate the ever-growing healthcare supply and demand gap, reduce medical errors, increase efficiency, improve quality of ... -
Perception of African immigrants of service quality at the Department of Home Affairs in Mthatha, Eastern Cape.
(2018)Service quality is a concept that has been around for many years. The concept of quality in the service industry is measured using five dimensions, namely; tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. ... -
The perception of customers from Giba Business Park with regards to the effect of self-service kiosks in fast food restaurants.
(2018)ABSTRACT Internationally fast food retailers have begun rolling out and implementing in store self service technology systems, in the form of kiosks, to supplement their customer experience. This automation in the ordering ... -
The perception of university students on the diffusion of fake news on social media : a case of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
(2019)Fake news is a digital but also ethical issue, and it has been one of the challenges of the media for the past decade. Fake news is defined as news articles that are false by intention and whose goal is to mislead readers. ... -
Perception on human resource practices and workplace deviance: a case of public Universities in South-West Nigeria.
(2022)This study examined perception on human resource practices (HRPs) and workplace deviance (WDB) in Nigerian public universities. Studies have revealed that the Nigerian university system is characterised by acts that are ...