The purpose of this research is to ascertain whether open management (OM)significantly reduces employee turnover in small South African InformationTechnology (IT) firms. Human Resource Management literature widely predicts that OM increasesemployee performance, commitment and retention. By 2010...

Best Company To Work For surveys (BCTWF) promise to promote winners status asan Employer of Choice (Conradie, 2007) leading to increased employer branding,easier talent attraction and retention, improved employee engagement, and ultimatelyto improved financial results all of which could be...

Market timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange has been the subject of numerous researches in South Africa, using different market conditions. This research aims to explore the effectiveness of a strategy of market-timing against a buy and hold strategy, at a reasonable level of market timing...

Many studies have been done to determine the benefits that the alignment ofbusiness and IT strategies can achieve. This has become more prominent as IThas evolved. Previous studies have highlighted that this has been difficult toachieve. From these studies many factors have been identified that...

The nature of relationships that consumers form with their brands has been welldocumented in the marketing literature, but research conducted to date has notfocused on the relationships that low income consumers form with brands, despitethis being an extremely important market globally. Through...

The following quantitative study investigated staff turnover at Company H, a hardware retailer, where 174 former employees were telephonically interviewed via a questionnaire. The results showed that staff enjoyed various factors at Company H but found their present management better than that...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has become the main source of developmentcapital for emerging markets in the current globalised world. Previousresearches have found that fiscal incentives capability to attract FDI is verylimited, while removal of policy restriction is a determinant in attracting...

Commodity prices have recently seen record grain prices with most growersgenerally improving their profitability. In 2007 the USA crop protection valueexperienced its biggest annual increase since 1984 with a US$30.5 billionincrease compared to 2006. South African growers increased their...

Recent economic crises coupled with corporate scandals have plunged theworld into the greatest financial predicament it has faced in almost a century.Deregulation has empowered business leaders and their subsequentunethical behaviour has undermined the very foundations of the worldsfinancial and...

In South Africa the second economy continues to be marginalised in certain areas. Thismarginalisation exacerbates disparities in wealth. These ills have to be reduced for South Africato prosper. A key driver for poverty reduction is ensuring all folds of society contribute toeconomic activity...