The management of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has clearly become a core strategic Issue for many organisations, especially in the developing world. However the policies and practices of an HIV/AIDS programme are often less than integrated and strategic in nature, with organisations frequently...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and recommend formal guidelines for the initial design of country-level or sectoral payroll levy systems that are intended to incentivize new firm training. The paper presents and illustrates two necessary conditions for new training to be...

The movement or flow of employees into, around and out of organisations(‘employee flow’) has long been a central issue in human resourcemanagement and industrial psychology. This is especially so for the specificelement of employee turnover, but also applies to staffing and internal...

Sustainable development is increasingly being seen as a major challenge in global terms. Operational Research (OR) has yet to be fully utilised in this area. To date, where it has been mostly used, it tends to deal with the relationships between environmental management and product supply chain...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate desired leadership characteristics of South African managers, and link differences in desired traits to contextually crucial demographic group differences and managerial advancement. Design/methodology/approach – South African managers (n=205) ranked...