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Work-home interaction of police officers in the North-West Province: examining socio-demographic differences
(Criminological and Victimological Society of South Africa (CRIMSA), 2008)This study was conducted among randomly selected members of the South African Police Service (n = 685) in the North West Province and examined how socio-demographic groups differ with regards to four dimensions of work-home ... -
The experience of work-life interaction in the Northern cape mining industry: an exploratory study
(University of Pretoria, 2008)The objective of this research was to investigate how Afrikaans and Setswana employees in the Northern Cape mining environment experience the interaction between their work and personal lives and to determine which major ... -
Regional determinants of entrepreneurial start-ups in a developing country
(Routledge, 2008)n this paper we use data from a developing country, South Africa, to empirically identify the determinants of start-up rates across different sub-national regions and in particular to investigate the role of access to ... -
The causes of conflict in public and private sector organizations in South Africa
(University of Primorska Faculty of Management, 2008)The uncertainty that accompanies organizational change heightens prospects for intra organizational conflict. Notwithstanding this, the knowledge base on the sources (or causes) of organizational conflict is underdeveloped ... -
The impact of XBRL on the financial reporting supply chain: a South African case study
(School of Accounting Sciences (NWU), 2008)In recent times there have been major developments in the areas of digitising business information, which can impact the financial reporting supply chain. Such developments include the eXtensible Business Reporting Language ... -
Occupational stress, ill health and organisational commitment of members of the South African police service in the North West Province
(Criminological Society of South Africa (CRIMSA), 2008)The aims of this study were to analyse the occupational stress experienced by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) stationed at the Local Criminal and Record Centre (LCRC), to assess the relationship between ... -
Competitive intelligence: construct exploration, validation and equivalence
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2008)Purpose: – Little empirical research has been conducted on competitive intelligence (CI). This paper aims to contribute to the quantitative strand of the CI literature by exploring and validating the theoretical constructs ... -
The cross-cultural application of the social axioms survey in the South African Police Service
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2008)The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). A crosssectional survey ... -
The psychometric properties of the Schutte emotional intelligence scale
(University of Johannesburg, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, 2008)The objective of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale (SEIS). The psychometric soundness of the SEIS was tested. A cross-sectional survey design was used for ... -
Travel motivations of tourists visiting Kruger National Park
(South African National Parks Board, 2008)The Kruger National Park (KNP) one of the largest conservation areas in South Africa, attracts in excess of one million visitors a year and is regarded as an icon destination in international tourism. Since this park ... -
Validation of the Orientation to Life Questionnair (OLQ) in a chemical factory
(University of Johannesburg, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, 2008)The objectives of this study were to assess the psychometric properties of the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ) and to investigate the differences in sense of coherence among demographic groups in a chemical factory ... -
The influence of length of relationship, gender and age on the relationship intention of short-term insurance clients: an exploration study
(University of Pretoria, 2008)Building long-term relationships with clients is extremely beneficial for organisations. This does not necessarily imply, however, that the clients themselves need or want a long-term relationship with an organisation. ... -
Small business owner-managers' perceptions of entrepreneurship in the Emfuleni district
(University of Pretoria, 2008)The primary objective of this study was to analyse small business owner-managers' perceptions of entrepreneurship and their motives to start their businesses in the Emfuleni district in South Africa. A total of 307 useable ... -
Examining the ethical predisposition of the next generation of business leaders in China and the Republic of South Africa
(University of Pretoria, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, 2008)This study was undertaken in an effort to determine the attitudes of business students in South Africa and China toward a battery of questionable actions undertaken by anonymous business entities. In general, practices ... -
Adapting the Macaulay duration for defaultable and option-embedded bonds
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria., 2008)Most contemporary bonds have embedded options and all face the possibility of default. Both features introduce risk (the former market risk and the latter credit risk) by altering the quantity and timing of the promised ... -
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. ... -
Perceptions of poverty and crime, its impact on the farming community and guidelines for and intervention programme
(Criminological Society of South Africa (CRIMSA), 2008)This article provides a profile on the poverty and crime that farm workers experience and have to deal with in their community. A multidisciplinary study was conducted by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the North-West ... -
Export intensity and the competitive intelligence of exporting companies: evidence from South Africa
(University of Pretoria, 2008)The present paper investigates the relationship between Competitive Intelligence (CI) factors, characteristics, information sources, needs, requirements and the export intensity of exporting companies in South Africa. We ... -
The determinants of regional manufactured exports from a developing country
(Sage Publications, 2008)In this article, the question of the location of exporters of manufactured goods within a country is investigated. Data from 354 magisterial districts in South Africa are used with a variety of estimators to identify the ... -
Seasonality as an unobservable component in South African agricultural market data
(2008)The shortcoming of most of the tests for seasonal patterns is that the problem under investigation is formulated in a stringent manner, leading to a test of the null hypothesis of no seasonality against the alternative of ...