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A health audit for corporate entrepreneurship in an agribusiness
(North-West University (South Africa), 2016)The ever changing global economy creates a challenging environment for business. These constant changes, challenge businesses to thoroughly examine their strategies to increase their probability of being successful and ... -
A health audit for corporate entrepreneurship on selected non-profit organisations
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Corporate entrepreneurship is becoming a fast growing agent for change and by utilising certain factors within this field, corporate entrepreneurship can be recognised as a mean of promoting, sustaining competitiveness and ... -
Hedge fund return attribution and performance forecasting using the Kalman filter
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)The practice of forecasting is fraught with difficulty: history is replete with examples of wild-ly inaccurate predictions. Nevertheless, attempts to guess future events as accurately as possible form the basis of risk ... -
Hedging against exporting costs and risks in the South African extractive industry
(2014)The revolutionisation of international economies and monetary systems has been taking place since the early 1970s. This occurred due to the diminishing fixed exchange rate systems of, initially, the Gold Standard and ... -
Hedonic and utilitarian shopping motivations among South African black Generation Y students
(North-West University, 2013)With the South African retail industry being a major and attractive industry, marketers and retailers are pressured to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage by developing marketing strategies that appeal to various ... -
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HIV/AIDS : knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of workers in a local municipality
(North-West University, 2006)INTRODUCTION - The world has been presented with a challenge of curbing the spread of HIV and the subsequent killer, AIDS. In the past twenty years, the epidemic has spread through out the world at a very rapid pace and ... -
HIV/AIDS awareness and attitudes of junior to middle management in the South African Police Service
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2011)The study investigated the current awareness programs from national strategy down to different departments focusing mainly on junior and middle management (level 1 to 12). The researcher provided HIV I AIDS background; ... -
Home and work demands and resources, social support and work-home interaction of Potchefstroom educators
(North-West University, 2007)It is universally agreed that education is the key to success. In South Africa, this is evidenced by the effort that the government has put in ensuring that all citizens have equal access to public schools. Despite such ... -
Home characteristics, nonwork–work interference and well–being of dual earner parents
(North-West University, 2011)Emotional home demands, cognitive home demands, home pressure, development possibilities, autonomy, social support, nonwork–work interference, spouse–work interference, parent–work interference, religion/spiritual–work ... -
Home loan profitability optimisation in the financial industry
(North-West University, 2007)Product profitability needs to remain a competitive advantage to a bank's home loan product. Ever changing customer needs and even more demanding customers today enforce reasons to investigate the profitability of home ... -
Hope, social support, intelligence, and academic performance of first year students at a higher education institution
(North-West University, 2012)Higher education systems are imperative to social and economic upliftment in any society, the ability of the national labour force and income disparity differentials between members of the populous are directly associated ... -
Host communities' social impact perceptions and involvement in tourism: Mopani District Municipality
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Host communities in South Africa are often excluded from tourism planning, decision-making and management of projects even though local participation and following a community approach is promoted. The local knowledge and ... -
Die houding teenoor die rekenaar as veranderingskomponent binne die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1994)The South African Police, as an organization that renders a service to the public, started to use computers on an ever increasing scale in the combat and prevention of crime. This has had far-reaching consequences on the ... -
How effective are 3PL & 4PL partnerships in the South African logistics supply chain
(North-West University, 2003)Outsourcing of logistical operations is becoming more and more frequent in order to address the needs of a company's supply chain as well as improving customer service and reducing operating costs. The main objective of ... -
How the behaviour of corporate leaders affects corporate reputation
(North-West University, 2011)Reputation is the strongest determinant of any corporation’s sustainability. Stock prices can always come back, and business strategies can always be changed, but when an organisation’s reputation is gravely injured, its ... -
Human capital constraints in South Africa : a firm level analysis
(North-West University, 2010)This study examines human capital constraints in the South African economy, and the austerity these constraints have on firms in the country. The first part of the study identifies the main human capital constraints ... -
Human resource managers as custodians of the King III
(North-West University, 2013)The objective of this research was to perform an explorative study to identify the position of Human Resources (HR) departments in companies in South Africa as custodians of the King III code; their knowledge and understanding ... -
Human resource service quality in the North West Department Local Government and Traditional Affairs : Mmabatho, South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2017)Importance of the study The study aims to help both employees and the management of the Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs to understand the quality of services offered by the Directorate of Human ... -
Human resource service quality in the North West Department Local Government and Traditional Affairs: Mmabatho, South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa) Mafikeng Campus, 2017)Importance of the study The study aims to help both employees and the management of the Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs to understand the quality of services offered by the Directorate of Human ...
