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Brics currency volatility: confusion or indecision?
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2011)The year 2008 will be remembered when the world experienced the biggest financial crisis since the depression of the 1930’s. The years that followed 2008 will be remembered as the years of uncertainty about sustainable ... -
Budget deficits and economic growth: a vector error correction modelling of South Africa
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2017)The primary motivation behind this study was to explore the consequential effects of budget deficit on South Africa`s economic growth. Six variables were used, namely: real GDP, budget deficit, real interest rate, labour, ... -
Building customer relationships as retention strategy in the South African Domestic Passenger Airline Industry
(The Department of Business, University of Johannesburg, 2010)Organisations are increasingly focusing on building long-term relationships with customers, thereby increasing their probability for success by offering customers higher levels of satisfaction, increasing customer loyalty, ... -
The built environment and physical activity participation in a semi–urban area in Southern Gauteng
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2012)Public health researchers over the years have drawn the attention to the effects of community environments on health conditions such as physical inactivity. Physical inactivity has been reported to be the second leading ... -
Burnout and engegement of Reformed church ministers
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)Orientation: The ministry is one occupation where burnout is increasingly considered to be a consequence of the problems with which ministers have to cope. However, few studies focused on the positive antipode of a minister’s ... -
Burnout and work engagement for different age groups: examining group-level differences and predictors
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study examined age-related differences of burnout and engagement levels among employees in the South African financial sector, including influences of perceived job characteristics and personal sense of coherence. ... -
Burnout and work engagement of academics in higher education institutions: effects of dispositional optimism
(Wiley, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among dispositional optimism, job demands and resources, burnout, work engagement, ill health and organizational commitment of South African academic staff in ... -
Burnout and work engagement of academics in higher education institutions: effects of dispositional optimism
(Wiley, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among dispositional optimism, job demands and resources, burnout, work engagement, ill health and organizational commitment of South African academic staff in ... -
Burnout and work engagement of South African blue-collar workers: the development of a new scale
(Unisa, 2012)Research in South Africa on work-related well-being (specifically burnout and work engagement) has focused mainly on white-collar workers. Although blue-collar workers form a major part of the South African work force, no ... -
Burnout and work engagement: a thorough investigation of the independency of both constructs
(American Psychological Association, 2010)This study among 528 South African employees working in the construction industry examined the dimensionality of burnout and work engagement, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey, the Oldenburg Burnout ... -
Burnout of academic staff in South African higher education institutions
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2008)The objectives of this study are to assess the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) for academic staff in South African higher education institutions and ... -
Burnout, engagement, coping and general health of service employees in the hospitality industry
(Elsevier, 2008)The aim of this study was to determine the relationships between burnout, engagement, coping and general health of employees in the hospitality industry of a South African city. A purposive, convenience sample and a survey ... -
Business cycles and stock market performance in South Africa
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)The stock market is an important indicator of an economy’s financial health. It checks the mood of investors in a country. Stock market performance is a vital component of business cycle growth. Thus, this study investigates ... -
Business management students' application of deep and surface learning
(Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2016)The learning environments created in higher education institutions (HEI) are to a large extent not empowering students to meet demands of the workplace. Business management students who are only exposed to direct teaching ... -
Business networking relationships for business success
(Foundation for Education Science & Technology, 2008)This study explored the context of business relationships in the networking practices of South African businesses. The objective of this study was to investigate the networking practices of Gauteng businesses and specific ... -
Business socialising: women's social networking perceptions
(Academic journals, 2012)The primary research objective of the study was to investigate the perceptions of the social networking practices of businesswomen. A non-probability purposive voluntary sample, followed by snowball sampling, was used to ... -
Calcium is the switch in the moonlighting dual function of the ligand–activated receptor kinase phytosulfokine receptor 1
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: A number of receptor kinases contain guanylate cyclase (GC) catalytic centres encapsulated in the cytosolic kinase domain. A prototypical example is the phytosulfokine receptor 1 (PSKR1) that is involved in ... -
Calculating operational value-at-risk (OpVaR) in a retail bank
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2008)The management of operational value-at-risk (OpVaR) in financial institutions is presented y means of a novel, robust calculation technique and the influence of this value on the capital held by a bank for operational risk. ... -
Can a new export promotion strategy revitalise Zimbabwe's economy?
(Sabinet, 2013)After years of political and economic upheavals and disappointing trade performance, Zimbabwe sorely needs to revitalise its economy. An important step towards this outcome is to grow and strengthen the country's export ... -
Can South Africa sustain and diversify its exports?
(AOSIS, 2016)The aim of this paper is to examine the diversification of South Africa's exports over the period 1994 to 2012. A decomposition of export growth shows that exports of non-fuel primary commodities as well as medium-skill ...