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Efficacy Evaluation of a Leadership Development Assessment Centre For Managers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lené I. Jorgensen --- North-West University, South Africa Bianca Els --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study evaluated the efficacy of a leadership development intervention using an assessment centre approach. Participants were 72 managers and peer workers (50%) with a steel manufacturing organisation from the Gauteng province of South Africa (females = 17% and males... -
Efficacy of a Sense of Meaning Intervention Amongst Managers at South African Institution of Higher Education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Solomon Makola --- Central University of Technology, South AfricaThe study evaluated the efficacy of a sense of meaning intervention with a sample of higher education managers. Participants were 14 members of the campus management committee of a university of technology in South Africa (age range = 32 to... -
Experiences of Managers and Healthcare Personnel Involved in a Functional Healthcare Public Private Partnership
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Esmeralda Ricks --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Dalena van Rooyen --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Moloko Priscilla Gantsho --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Wilma ten Ham --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South AfricaThis study explored the experiences of managers and healthcare personnel involved in a functional healthcare public private partnership (PPP) in a semi-rural area situated in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Data on how managers and healthcare personnel experienced their... -
Dimensions of Job Satisfaction Identified Among South African Black Middle-level Managers: A Qualitative Investigation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sonja C. Strydom --- Stellenbosch University, René van Eeden --- University of South Africa,The aim of the present study was to identify the factors contributing to job satisfaction for black middle-level managers and to contextualise these factors in terms of Afrocentric values and South Africa's socio-political and historical background. The sample comprised eight... -
Use and neglect of best-practice HIV/AIDS programme guides by South African companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ronald Whelan David Dickinson Tessa MurrayNumerous guidelines set out best-practice policies for HIV/AIDS interventions in the workplace. This study analysed 14 recognised codes and guidelines to gain an understanding of the theoretical consensus regarding the key components of best-practice workplace HIV/AIDS interventions. Nine key components... -
Empowering Academics the Viskerian Way
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Johannes L van der Walt --- Faculty of Education Sciences, Ferdinand J Potgieter --- , Charl C Wolhuter --- ,Academics and/or scholars increasingly feel that their academic voice (combined or individual) has been squelched by the demands of performativity in its various guises, and resultantly, that they have been caught up in a process of steady disempowerment. Rather, it... -
Perceptions of hospital managers regarding the impact of doctors' community service
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: OB Omole --- Dept. of Family Medicine & PHC, South Africa G Marincowitz --- Dept. of Family Medicine & PHC, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Dept. of Family Medicine & PHC, South AfricaBackground: In South Africa, the distribution of doctors is skewed in favour of the urban areas, but it is not uncommon to find many peri-urban facilities in short supply of doctors. In 1997, the South African government introduced compulsory community... -
Intrinsic motivation a key enabler of African managers’ cultural intelligence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yvonne Du Plessis --- Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership, South Africa Nicolene Barkhuizen --- Department of Industrial Psychology, South AfricaThis study sought to determine manager's intrinsic motivation to engage multiculturally in the workplace as the managers varied by demographic background. Participants were a convenience sample of managers on supervisory level, middle level and senior level (n=550; Male 54.9%; Black... -
Multiple interventions in a managerial accounting and financial management tutorial programme to enhance understanding
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Karen Bargate --- Department of Accounting, South AfricaThis paper emanates from a study which focused on Managerial Accounting and Financial Management (MAF) students’ experiences of learning in a Writing Intensive Tutorial (WIT) programme. Often students do not fully grasp the underlying disciplinary concepts and struggle to transfer... -
Fund manager characteristics and performance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Yi Fang --- Center for Quantitative Economics, China Haiping Wang --- School of Administrative Studies, CanadaThis study establishes a multitier framework to evaluate how fund manager characteristics systematically affect mutual fund performance. The framework includes three tiers of performance elements: comprehensive performance; return and risk; and timing skill and picking ability. Using performance decomposition, our... -
The Impact of Corporate Control on the Financial Variables of Companies listed on the J.S.E.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: E. Uliana --- University of Cape Town,The effect of different types of corporate control on financial variables of companies are investigated. Three groups of companies representing foreign controlled, owner controlled and conglomerate controlled are matched according to size and industry. Certain financial ratios for each group... -
Corporate control, economie conditions and financial performance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Richard Day --- University of Cape Town, Enrico Uliana --- University of Cape Town,The financial characteristics of owner-managed and professionally-managed companies are studied across two decades representing different economic conditions. The results show that professionally-managed companies out-performed the owner-managed companies, and that there are significant differences in financial structures between the two groups... -
Key Information Technologies in the mid-1990s as Perceived by the Accounting Profession and Business Managers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Dan Remenyi --- University of the Witwatersrand, Frances Sutherland --- University of the Witwatersrand,As information technology is playing a bigger ro!e in all business, professional and government organisations than ever before, it has become increasingly important to be able to forecast the direction of the use of this technology. -
Participation schemes in the South African Mining Industry: The impact of managerial accounting, communication and control systems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Jeremy Lord --- Department of Accounting at the University of Natal,The relationships between employees’ job satisfaction and their perceived extent of participation in profits, and budget-setting and other job-related decision-making, were examined in a profitable South African mining company. Using the statistical technique of Moderated Multiple Regression, it was established... -
To what extent are students as middle managers at a training hotel involved in strategic decision making?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Tjeerd Zandberg --- Stenden University, the NetherlandsResearch has shown that middle managers can exert major upward or downward influence on their organisation’s strategy. In the practice department of our hotel school, senior students act as managers to train managerial competences. To analyse if this reflects reality,... -
The Relationship between Competitive Strategy and Firm Performance in Micro and Small Businesses in Ghana: The Moderating Role of Managerial and Marketing Capabilities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Moses Acquaah --- Bryan School of Business and Economics, USA Ahmed Agyapong --- KNUST Business School, GhanaThis study investigates the role of managerial and marketing capabilities in moderating the relationship between competitive strategy and firm performance using data from 581 micro and small businesses (MSBs) in Ghana. Using a hierarchical multiple regression analysis the findings indicate... -
To what extent are students as middle managers at a training hotel involved in strategic decision making?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Tjeerd Zandberg --- Stenden University, the NetherlandsResearch has shown that middle managers can exert major upward or downward influence on their organisation's strategy. In the practice department of our hotel school, senior students act as managers to train managerial competences. To analyse if this reflects reality,... -
Experiences and Challenges of Women Leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Angela Titi Amayah --- Business Management Economics, USA MD Haque --- Managing Director, USAThere is little research on non-Western women managers and leaders in general, and on African women in particular. More attention could be given to influences that shape leadership experiences in order to better understand African women leadership practices. The purpose... -
The importance of the human touch in the luxury accommodation sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Tracy Harkison --- School of Hospitality and Tourism, Faculty of Culture and Society, New ZealandIt could be said that all luxury properties offer their guests the same facilities and amenities; therefore, there has to be some other point of difference – their staff. This research paper focuses on staff and their importance for luxury... -
An investigation into the normal tax implications of a carried interest in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Ellané van Wyk --- Department of Accounting, South Africa Tertius Troost --- Mazars, South Africa‘Carried interest’ is not defined in the South African Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 as amended (the Act), nor has it been subject to scrutiny in South African courts. Uncertainty prevails regarding the classification of a carried interest for... -
Validation of the trust relationship audit (TRA): An item parcelling approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Hartmut von der Ohe --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Nico Martins --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study sought to apply an item parcelling approach to confirm the factor structure of trust in the direct supervisor as measured by the trust relationship audit (TRA). The researchers analysed an existing data set on the TRA from 9... -
On Globalizing Business Training in Africa: Toward a Theory of Business Education and Managerial Competence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Vishwanath V. Baba --- DeGroote School of Business, CanadaGlobalization is a powerful force shaping today’s business environment. This paper focuses on how African business schools can prepare their students to manage for globalization. In line with the growing need for managing business in a volatile environment and that... -
Reliability and equity of subject delivery competencies: Perspectives of pre-service teachers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Alfred Henry Makura --- Faculty of Humanities, South Africa Lukanda Kalobo --- Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaThis study examined the reliability and equity of assessors of subject delivery competences as perceived by pre-service teachers. The participants were 310 final year student teachers from a college in Zimbabwe. They responded to a survey on their perceptions of... -
Social capital and performance of SMEs: The role of entrepreneurial orientation and managerial capability
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Suzzie Owiredua Aidoo --- , Ghana Ahmed Agyapong --- , Ghana Henry Kofi Mensah --- , GhanaThis study proposes and investigates the argument that social capital–performance link is mediated by entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and that this mediated relationship is dependent upon the level of managerial capability (MC) present in a firm. The study uses a sample... -
A review of research about the psychology of hospitality management in three leading hospitality journals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ran Zhang --- , The Netherlands Wichard Zwaal --- , The NetherlandsThis article reviewed research articles published in three leading hospitality journals — Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, International Journal of Hospitality Management and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. Sixty published issues (20 issues per journal) with a total of 539 articles... -
Recruitment managers’ emotional intelligence and employment discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS: The mediating role of stigma
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Michael A. Ofili --- , South Africa Erhabor S. Idemudia --- , South Africa Babatola D. Olawa --- , South AfricaThis study examined the mediating role of stigma on relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and employment discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Participants included 1 112 recruitment managers (female = 49%, senior managers = 68%) drawn from both private... -
Hotel managers’ perspectives of Airbnb operations in Accra Metropolis, Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rosemary Wunpini Issaka --- , Ghana Abednego Kofi Bansah --- , Ghana Conrad-Joseph Wuleka Kuuder --- , GhanaThe study was conducted to ascertain hotel managers’ standpoints on the influx of Airbnb facilities in Ghana’s hospitality “arena” and the palpable effects. Employing a qualitative approach to data collection, the study made use of in-depth interview guides, engaging 33... -
A Notsie narrative perspective on turnover in the UK financial services industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: David Sarpong --- , United Kingdom Mairi Maclean --- , United Kingdom Wuraola Hassan --- , United KingdomDrawing on a cultural perspective from the Global South, Notsie narrative, a West African literary folklore, we explore the high churn rate in the UK financial services industry. Viewing the storied accounts of former financial complaint handlers through a Notsie... -
Are environmental conditions in the eyes of the beholder? Foreign and local firms in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Lilac Nachum --- Baruch College, City University New York, USA Chris Ogbechie --- Lagos Business School, NigeriaInternational business research has provided substantial empirical evidence that foreign firms investing in countries with adverse environmental conditions may emerge as the main competitors in those countries. Against this backdrop, the dominance of local banks in Nigeria is puzzling. Our... -
Managerial capabilities and their drivers: Lessons from grain-milling firms in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: David Rwehikiza --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Goodluck Charles --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Lettice Rutashobya --- University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaDespite managerial capabilities being credited for driving business performance, little evidence exists about how those capabilities are acquired. This study investigated managerial capabilities and their drivers in grain-milling firms in Tanzania. Based on a qualitative analysis of ten enterprises, the... -
The cumulative prospect theory and fund flows in emerging markets
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Amit Pandey --- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India Anil Kumar Sharma --- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, IndiaThis study is the first to examine the efficacy of the Cumulative Prospect Theory value of the past return (CPTV) to explain fund flow in emerging markets funds by considering the impact of fund managers’ characteristics and behavioural biases on...