August 2013
Will promoting more typical SME start-ups increase job creation in South Africa?
Unemployment is one of the pressing issues that attract more attention in South Africa at the moment, with over 25% of the population jobless and the number increases to 40% when including the people who have totally given up the search for work. The South African government has continuously highlighted that the SME sector will be the key to increasing job creation in the country. However, there is evidence that the...
August 2013
From the Lens of an Appraisee Manager: Influence of Performance Metrics on Management level Employeesin a Professional Services Firm in South Africa
Today, performance metrics of managers are touted as a fundamental cornerstone of employee performance management. But beware that, if improperly used, they degenerate into organisational curse and performance appraisal politics. As these metrics are being widely adopted in organisations, it is prudent that they are used judiciously by those in authority to assess managers, and consistently induce more commitment,...
August 2013
Accounting for employment generation and expansion: A tool for insecurity in Nigeria
An enduring outcome of observation processes is the enduring visibility of the need for the generation and expansion of employment. The current situations in Nigeria are underemployment, unemployment as well as insecurity. Among the broad causes of unemployment are absence of industrialization, poor agricultural system, high cost of qualitative education, rapid population growth, rural-urban migration in search for...
August 2013
Integration of policy aspects into information security issues in South African organisations
Information for individual organisations should always be secured. Organisations need to protect their information from attackers or competitors as these could lead to law suits or loss of business. With the more advanced network technology, information security risks and threats are believed to be on the increase and becoming even more sophisticated. This paper assesses how South African...
August 2013
Social vices associated with the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in a Private Christian Mission University, Southern Nigeria.
This study is designed to address social problems associated with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and implications they portend on studentship in a Private Christian Mission University, Southern Nigeria. It tries to find out how the engagement of ICT devices results in social vices on campus. Drawing from recorded data between 2006 and 2012 academic year, the study reported six ICT tools...
August 2013
Understanding the deployment of Competitive Intelligence through moments of translation
Organisations employ different strategic tools such as Competitive Intelligence (CI) to enable and support their goals and objectives, periodically. Unfortunately, the tools do not seem to resolve the challenges that they were deployed for. This could be attributed to the fact that there is too much focus on the tools, and less attention on the social interaction which occurs in the process. The CI is deployed by many...
August 2013
Reflecting on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in marketing from a marketer’s and student perspective
Information Communication Technology (ICT) has fundamentally changed the way in which global business is conducted. Of all the organisational functions, marketing has possibly been impacted the most by the emergence of ICT, as the array of available digital media presents a plethora of new ways in which goods and services could be marketed. Despite an increased emphasis on ICT deployment since the 1990s, marketers have...
August 2013
Medication logistics in Public Healthcare: Model adopted by the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil
The main objectives of this study are to describe the logistic operation model adopted in relation to public politics on the acquisition and distribution of medications by the Government of the State of Minas Gerais, in order to compare the previous model with the new model and to identify the main advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing the logistics operation in reference to the medications of the State of Minas...
August 2013
Community capacity building approaches and sustainability of health care projects: Implications from palliative care projects in Mayuge district in Uganda
The purpose of the study was to establish the extent to which community capacity building influenced sustainability of palliative care projects in Mayuge district. Specifically, the study strived to establish the extent to which top down, bottom up and community organizational approaches of capacity building could influence the sustainability of palliative care projects. We used a cross-sectional survey design to cover...
August 2013
Exploring linkages among external integration, supply chain risk reduction and performance outcomes: a study with Brazilian companies
This paper explores practical linkages among external integration, supply chain risk reduction, and performance outcomes. Based on a survey questionnaire with 96 participants from industrial context of Brazil, we analyzed the total sample and we used the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test to comparing two sets of companies, that is, large companies (annual sales > US$ 5 millions), and non-large companies (annual sales US$...
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