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Determining the motivating factors for the general use of social media amongst tourists to South Africa
(The Social Sciences Research Society, 2016)The remarkable growth in information technology has led businesses to appreciate the power and potential of online marketing, rather than merely focussing their promotional activities and goals on production and sales. ... -
Developing a competency scale for sport coaches
(AFAHPER-SD, 2013)The importance of operational competencies of sport coaches is widely acknowledged in the literature, yet there appears to be a lack of research in this field. The purpose of this research study was to develop a competency ... -
Developing a competency scale for sport coaches
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)The importance of operational competencies of sport coaches is widely acknowledged in the literature, yet there appears to be a lack of research in this field. The purpose of this research study was to develop a competency ... -
Developing a national cadre of effective leadership towards sustainable quality service delivery in South Africa
(Academic journals, 2011)The application of the three (3) dimensional leadership competency model has the likelihood of having a positive impact on a sustainable developmental local governance framework. The purpose of the study was to explore the ... -
Developing a sustainable balanced scorecard for the oil and gas sector
(LLC “СPС “Business Perspectives”, 2014)The oil and gas sector is one of the key players in the South African economy; however, South Africa is also regarded as the foremost polluter in Africa. The main objective of the study was to develop a sustainable balanced ... -
Developing and testing items for the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI)
(AOSIS, 2013)Orientation: A multicultural country like South Africa needs fair cross-cultural psychometric instruments. Research purpose: This article reports on the process of identifying items for, and provides a quantitative evaluation ... -
Developing community-based tourism in South Africa: addressing the missing link: tourism and leisure
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)Tourism has been widely proposed as a tool contributing to development. Community-based tourism (CBT) has been specifically recognised as a tourism development approach aimed at facilitating the development of disadvantaged ... -
Developing corporate startegies to enable resilience in the South African information systems and technology industry
(Clute Institute, 2012)Globalisation has contributed to many new challenges in the Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) industry, which placed increased pressure on organisational long-term sustainability. Just like their global counterparts, ... -
Developing soft skills (also known as pervasive skills): usefulness of an educational game
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of an educational game to develop soft skills (also known as pervasive skills), from the perspectives of three groups of role-players (student participants, ... -
The development and evaluation of an emotion competence intervention in the South African police service
(Kamla-Raj, 2012)The South African Police Service (SAPS) is an organisation where employees are exposed to numerous stressful and traumatic episodes which affects the employee’s emotion functioning. Although several pro-active psychological ... -
The development and investigation of the psychometric properties of a burnout scale within a South African agricultural research institution
(AOSIS, 2014)Orientation: Burnout of employees is well documented within South Africa, but researchers have adapted imported instruments with a number of limitations. Therefore there is a need to develop a new instrument suitable for ... -
Development of an integrated operating framework for strategy execution in Gauteng municipalities in South Africa
(Clute Institute, 2014-09)The establishment of a new democracy has created high expectations amongst all the different communities of South Africa. The demand for basic essential services by the previously disadvantaged communities has increased ... -
The development of the MACE work-family enrichment instrument
(AOSIS, 2013)Orientation: An instrument based on a theoretical model is necessary to measure the positive side of the work-family interface. Research purpose: To develop items for measurement of work-family enrichment based on the ... -
Developmental monitoring using caregiver reports in a resource-limited setting: The case of Kilifi, Kenya
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Aim: The main aim of the current study was to evaluate the reliability, validity and acceptability of developmental monitoring using caregiver reports among mothers in a rural African setting. Methods: A structured ... -
Diabetes mellitus and comorbid depression in Zambia
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Aims To replicate, in Zambia, a recent global study by the WHO, which reported that the odds of depression were not increased in African people with diabetes, and to explore the sociodemographic and clinical factors ... -
Die aanbod van en die vraag na water in Suid-Afrika se ontwikkelingstreke
(AOSIS, 1988)Gegewens oor die beskikbaarheid van water in die ontwikkelingstreke van Suid-Afrika is tans onvoldoende. Wateraanbod en -aanvraag is slegs vir die verskillende rivieropvanggebiede beskikbaar. Aangesien die grense van die ... -
Die antitese tussen witboordjiemisdaad en sake-etiek
(Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte / Potchefstroom, 2008)Transparency International states that the scourge of white-collar crime and corruption is endemic in both the developed and developing world. South Africa is no exception, as the perception prevails that not only have ... -
Die belangrikheid van water as ’n basiese behoefte vir ekonomiese ontwikkeling in Streek 23
(AOSIS, 1987)The economic developmental potential of region 23 is to be found mainly in the field of the primary sector. Future development in the agricultural sector is dependent upon large volumes of water. To realise the developmental ... -
Die brood wat ons daagliks breek: gemeenskapsbelewenisse van die broodtradisie op Skanskopeiland
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2016)Brood as stapelvoedsel is 'n kernkomponent van die Suid-Afrikaanse voedselkultuur en die kultuurerfenis van Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskappe. In hierdie artikel word die tradisionele broodbakkultuur op Skanskopeiland in die ... -
Die dienskwaliteit van die PUK rugby instituut
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2009)The PUK Rugby Institute (PRI) was founded in 2000 and earmarked to be of strategic importance in the marketing of the university as well as in the role sport plays in the tertiary environment. It is imperative that the NWU ...