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A SA study into the adherence to the International Labour Organisation's Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work in HIV/AIDS workplace policy content development
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, existing data were used to conduct a descriptive research study into the adherence or lack thereof - in varying degrees - of South African companies to the ten key principles of the ... -
The saddle-point method and its application to the hill estimator
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The saddle-point approximation is a highly accurate approximation of the distribution of a random variable. It was originally derived as an approximation in situations where a parameter takes on large ... -
Safety behaviour in high risk industries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This study advocates for the importance of safety for organisations in high risk industries and the financial and person related impact that a lack of safety and in particular safety behaviour can have ... -
Salient predictors of intention to quit among sales employees within the south african financial services industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Today’s organisations are consistently faced with radical change within an extremely volatile environment. A review of the literature revealed that the demanding and often challenging nature of work ... -
A sample survey of computer-based training with reference to success criteria and remedial procedures
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2000-06)The aim of the study is to conduct an investigation into the status-quo of computer-based training (CBT) at one of the leading Life Assurance companies in South Africa. The investigation comprises the development of a ... -
A sample survey of the career maturity of disadvantaged learners in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)Organisations have come to exist for a definite purpose, which is to combine and transform scarce factors of production into products and services with maximum economic utility. They strive to attain the highest possible ... -
Saving and wealth in the context of extreme inequality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Saving and wealth are important determinants for the wellbeing of individual households and the development of whole economies. Unlike flow variables like income and consumption, however, balance sheet ... -
Savings culture for the black middle class in South Africa
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Scaling the value creation capacity of non-profit organisations through an evolving partnering portfolio : learning from a case in practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : This study is anchored in a theoretical domain that explores the potential of partnering as a strategy and process to improve the value creation capacity and sustainability of non-profit organisations. ... -
School production modelling to strengthen government monitoring programmes in developing countries
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)Education production function analysis is widely recognised as one important area of research that needs to inform education policymaking, specifically policy relating to the mix of funded inputs in a schooling system. ... -
School results and access test results as indicators of first-year performance at university
(Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2004)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The goals set by the National Plan for Higher Education, the fact that many schools are still severely disadvantaged as well as far-reaching changes in the school system demand that South African universities ... -
Schumpeter se siening van die kapitalisme
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Science potential for development in Africa not yet fully realised
(ASSAf, 2021-05-28)Radhamany Sooryamoorthy is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. His field of interest is the contribution of science to development in Africa compared to ... -
The scope of bullying among nurses in a public hospital in the Free State : a mixed-method study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Orientation: Bullying is a form of counterproductive behaviour that is more subtle and more difficult to detect and that can be instigated by either individual or organisational antecedents. Research ... -
A scorecard for monitoring and evaluation of governance of special schools in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Conflicts and dysfunctionality in public schools is often the cause of poor school performance and learner outcomes. This often is a direct result of poor school governance. Studies have previously ... -
Searching for histogram patterns due to macroscopic fluctuations in financial time series
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: his study aims to investigate whether the phenomena found by Shnoll et al. when applying histogram pattern analysis techniques to stochastic processes from chemistry and physics are also present in financial ... -
Second-round effects on inflation, and underlying inflation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Supply shocks, especially food and energy price shocks, play a significant role in the evolution and dynamics of headline consumer price inflation in South Africa. Although headline inflation is the ... -
Secondary education as a predictor of aptitude : implications for selection in the automotive sector
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Orientation: Details of applicants’ secondary education (incorporating subject choice) could be a useful screening tool when processing large applicant pools. Here, the relationships between secondary education (incorporating ... -
Section 24C : indicators regarding the certainty of the incurral of future expenditure
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Section 24C of the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 provides for a deduction of future expenditure that will be incurred by the taxpayer in the performance of his obligations under a contract from which the taxpayer derived ... -
Seed politics : an exploration of power narratives in the South African seed industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study (Seed politics: An exploration of power narratives in the South African seed industry) attempts to unravel the contradictory power relations shaping South Africa’s seed system and to explore ...
