Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Graduate School of Business and Leadership) by Title
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Human resource transformation as a strategy for addressing talent management challenges at ESwatini electricity company.
(2019)Faced with looming talent challenges, uncertain business environments and changing demographics, organizations find themselves forced to adapt or perish. These changes not only suppress an organizations’ competitive edge ... -
Impact of skills development training on employee motivation, perceptions of organizational climate and individual performance.
(2009)There is a huge skills shortage in South Africa which impacts negatively on its worldwide competitiveness. Since the advent of democracy, the South African government has been faced with the challenge of addressing one ... -
Industrial Clustering as a tool to enhance competitiveness of the economy of the KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
(2019)The South African government has in the past 20 years developed various industrial policies that were geared towards industrialisation and making meaningful contributions towards the creation of jobs, dealing with the ... -
Influence of biopsychosocial factors on entrepreneurial education and students' entrepreneurial inclination in selected Nigerian universities.
(2021)Entrepreneurial education has attracted a great deal of attention worldwide because of the idea that it is one of the panaceas for today's societal unemployment problems among university graduates. The aim of this ... -
Influence of psychological factors, political environment and information awareness on entrepreneurial behaviour among youths in Mpumalanga province.
(2018)Determining the Influence of Psychological factors, political environment and information awareness on youth’s entrepreneurial behaviour in Mpumalanga province is important to foster effective entrepreneurial interest. ... -
Institutional and learning impact on student entrepreneurial inclination at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
(2015)This study investigated the institutional environment and learning impact on student entrepreneurial intention at the University of KwaZulu Natal; one of the notable universities in South Africa ranking in the top 3% of ... -
Intuitive competitive intelligence: the entrepreneurial path to success for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector in the Eastern Cape Province.
(2020)The aim of this study was to examine whether small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector in Eastern Cape Province (ECP) employed intuitive competitive intelligence (ICI) to succeed in the business world. ... -
Investigating the progression of South Africa’s developmental state through the Black Industrialist Programme.
(2021)South Africa has made considerable progress in terms of economic development since the dawn of democracy in 1994. However, the pace and distribution of that progress have not been equitably reflected across all demographics, ... -
An investigation into the mortality rate of small businesses, with particular reference to fuel retailers within the Republic of South Africa.
(2007)The impact of change and transformation on small businesses has compelled them to face a multitude of new challenges. The successful application of the selected strategies depends largely on an understanding of the ... -
IT governance implementation framework for South African companies: a corporate governance perspective.
(2017)In the past, information technology (IT) management and governance was a departmental or management level responsibility. However, of recent, it has become an integral part of organisations and its optimal function has ... -
Leader development approaches that engender leadership effectiveness among natural scientists in Uganda: a comparative study.
(2021)Most natural scientists are promoted into leadership positions based on technical competence, yet technical capabilities become less vital as leadership responsibility increases. While scientists need to adopt leader ... -
Leadership competencies within the context of nursing management, in private healthcare organisations in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2018)Background: Leadership forms a critical part of the healthcare management process and works synergistically with the other functions of planning, organising and controlling. Nurse managers do not display all the competencies ... -
A leadership framework for organisational sustainability in the banking sector.
(2017)This study was undertaken to examine the key challenges to, and gaps in, achieving an integrated sustainability approach within banks by utilising theoretical underpinnings from both commercial and social entrepreneurship ... -
Leadership of state-owned enterprises in a volatile environment: a case study of Eskom.
(2021)To lead a complex SoE like Eskom with its myriad of challenges during a volatile environment, like the Covid-19 pandemic, calls for a very different leadership approach. Research focusing on leading in volatile environments ... -
A leadership skills development model for the Kwaden Group: a case study of an African FMCG business-network.
(2020)Organisations competing in Africa face numerous challenges. These include its size and complexity, transformational population growth, abundance of talent but a lack of skills, a scarcity of large companies, the relatively ... -
A lean manufacturing implementation framework for improved productivity and efficiency in the sugar industry in Mozambique. UHLAKAKUSEBENZA LOKUQALISA UKUSEBENZA UKUKHIQIZWA OKUSEZINGENI OKUHUCUKILE NOLUSEBENZA NGENDLELA EFANELE EMBONINI YOKUKHIQIZA USHUKELA EMOZAMBIQUE.
(2022)The Mozambican agricultural sector is a critical one that contributes to the country’s foreign currency earnings, gross domestic product and employment. The industry is the largest employer outside the government, ... -
The linkage between individual interpersonal relationship and work performance in the South African retail sector.
(2015)A partial or non-recognition of the effect of interpersonal relationships may hinder the success of retail business diffusion and growth, especially among the South African retailers taking advantage of the retail ... -
"The minimisation of the liquidation of viable banking institutions in Zimbabwe's banking sector".
(2011)The Zimbabwe banking sector seems to have almost recovered from the banking crisis of 2003/2006, in a very difficult social, economic and political environment. More than 20 banking institutions were placed under liquidation ... -
A model for measuring e-learning systems success in South African universities: a case study a study of the university of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
(2018)The fourth industrial revolution is upon us and one of the questions that higher education institutions (HEIs) should be asking is: Is the current education system preparing us for the fourth industrial revolution? The ... -
Municipal distress : towards a municipal infrastructure and finance model : a case study of uMgungundlovu District Municipality.
(2015)The Constitution (Section 152, 1996) defines local government as a sphere of government responsible for the provision of sustainable municipal services to communities. Sibanda (2012) states that “poor and lack of municipal ...