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Conflict management and job characteristics of nurses in South African public hospitals
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)This study sought to determine whether job demands and job resources predicted conflict handling styles among nurses within South African public hospitals. A convenience sample of 205 nurses were included (males = 10.7%; ... -
Conflict management model for secondary school principals in the North West Province
(2004)In South Africa, little is documented on the strategies for addressing conflicts in schools and on the problems that are caused by lack of viable conflict management strategies in schools. Principals exist in a world of ... -
Conflict of interest: The case of a non-decision-making committee at a South African public higher education institution
(AOSIS, 2021)The avoidance of a conflict of interest within private and public institutions is closely associated with good corporate governance. This study departed from the question of whether a conflict of interest is possible ... -
Conflict or consensus? Re-examining crime and disaster
(OASIS, 2019)The debate about whether or not crime – specifically looting – happens after disaster is an enduring debate in the field of disaster studies. Veteran disaster scholars argue that widespread looting only happens during a ... -
Conflicting Levels of Engagement under the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act and the Minerals and Petroleum Development Act: A Closer Look at the Xolobeni Community Dispute
(PER/PELJ, 2020)The South African customary land tenure system is currently administered in terms of the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act 31 of 1996 (IPILRA). As the name suggests, this is a temporary measure to protect ... -
Conflicting perceptions over water distribution in Sibasa-Thohoyandou area: interpreting local narratives.
(Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)The state perceives water as an economic commodity, even if its existing policy treats it as a national resource that should be freely accessed for basic usage. Research suggests many residents of the Sibasa-Thohoyandou ... -
Conflicting quality of life rationalities between spatial decision-makers and the South African poor
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)With high levels of inequality, poverty and high crime rates, South Africa tends to rank relatively low on the quality of life indexes, i.e. South Africa forms part of the bottom 10 countries on the Happy Planet Index. In ... -
Conflicting traffic: characterization of the hazards of birds flying across an airport runway
(Wiley, 2016)Bird–aircraft collisions cost millions of dollars to aviation globally and cause deaths. We designed and tested a protocol to study the hazards to aircraft from birds flying across runways where aircraft rotate and climb ... -
Conflicts and conflict management styles as precursors of workplace bullying: A two-wave longitudinal study
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The current study examined the relationships between conflicts in the work unit, the employee’s conflict management style and workplace bullying in a full panel two-wave longitudinal design with a 6 months’ time lag (n¼277). ... -
Conflicts in adaptation: case studies from Nepal and the Maldives
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose Adaptation appears to be regarded as a panacea in policy circles to reduce the risk of impending crises resulting from contemporary changes, including but not restricted to climate change. Such conceptions can be ... -
Confronting "Self" and "Other" in Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), 2016)This article evaluates the position and experience of whites in South Africa after the advent of a black majority government, insofar as these are represented by the English-speaking white male protagonist in The Good ... -
Confronting controversial issues in History classrooms: an analysis of preservice High School teachers’ experiences in post-apartheid South Africa
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The purpose of the study presented in this article is to understand the experiences of final year pre-service South African high school history teachers on their engagement with controversial issues during their teaching ... -
Confronting selected difficulties associated with the enforcement of res judicata in South Africa with reference to Samancor v Rham Equipment (532/13) [2014] ZASCA 66
(University Of The Western Cape, Faculty Of Law, 2016)The doctrine of estoppel is a cornerstone of the judicial systems of several countries, such as, Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (USA), New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. This doctrine, ... -
Congo-Nigeria hydroelectric superhighway grid : an economic viable option
(North-West University, 2008)Electricity availability and stability have a great contributory share of industrialization growth rate, poverty statistics, unemployment, foreign investors' participation, medium and small scale encouragement, crime and ... -
Congolese migrants and South African language appropriation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Migration, the phenomenon of leaving one's country for another, is one of the most salient causes of language contact in the present era. Previously, migrants left their countries for ideological monolingual countries where ... -
Congregational song, based on Reformed-Calvinistic principles
(North-West University (South Africa), 1979)That congregational song is not only a vital aspect of worship, but also one whose standards must be in keeping with the other main aspects of worship, should now be clear. The principles of Excellence, Suitability and ... -
The Congress of the People (COPE) leadership under siege: the beginning of the end?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)• Summary: The article attempts to respond to the controversy of leadership squabbles within the ranks of the Congress of the People (COPE). For the past few years, COPE has become the home of divisions, factions and ... -
Connecting the dots: History teaching in the 21st century classroom – juggling reason, technology and multi-media in the world of the young technophile.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This article will focus on harnessing the latest in multi-media and technological gadgetry in the modern history classroom. Teenagers find themselves at the cutting edge of the world of “bits and bytes”, social media and ... -
Connecting topics from graad 10 and 11 in grade 12 to inprove chemistry performance in matric psysical sciences
(North-West University (South Africa), 2017)According to the National Diagnostic Reports (NDR) of 2013 and 2014, learners in Grade 12 did not perform well in Physical Sciences Paper 2 (Chemistry) and did not understand the complex Chemistry content taught in Matric. ... -
The connection between God's praise and God's presence a biblical study
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)The main aim of this study is to provide an answer to the question whether there is a connection between God’s people’s praise and God’s presence. The central argument of this thesis is that Scripture in both Testaments ...