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Whistle-blowing by external auditors in South Africa

Maroun, Warren; Atkins, Jill - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 27 (2014) 5, pp. 834-862

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how notions of disciplinary power manifest themselves in audit regulatory developments. When it comes to research on the relationship between audit quality and regulation, much of the prior scholarly work has kept to the positivist tradition of...

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Organising on the periphery: new sources of power in the South African workplace

von Holdt, Karl; Webster, Edward - In: Employee Relations 30 (2008) 4, pp. 333-354

Purpose – Is labour's decline permanent, or is it merely a temporary weakening, as Beverley Silver suggests in her recent book, as the labour movement is unmade and remade in different locations and at different times? The article aims to examine this question in South Africa, one of the newly...

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Union power and new managerial strategies: the case of South Africa

Wood, Geoffrey; Glaister, Keith - In: Employee Relations 30 (2008) 4, pp. 436-451

Purpose – This study aims to assess the relationship between unionization and employee collectivism, and managerial strategies for employee participation and involvement, within an emerging market economy that has prioritized export competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach – This paper...

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Relationships between job embeddedness and employees’ life satisfaction

Ampofo, Emmanuel Twumasi; Coetzer, Alan; Poisat, Paul - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 7, pp. 951-966

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore relationships between organisation embeddedness and life satisfaction …, and community embeddedness and life satisfaction. The study also examined relationships between each sub-dimension of … organisation embeddedness and community embeddedness and life satisfaction. These sub-dimensions are “links”, “fit” and “sacrifice …

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Kentz builds South Africa's workforce of tomorrow

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 20 (2012) 6, pp. 10-12

competitive advantage and customer satisfaction as a result of investment and innovation in training initiatives. Practical …

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The fall of the Wall, the rise of the BRICs and the new Scramble for Africa

Kahn, Michael - In: Foresight 13 (2011) 3, pp. 38-49

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to construct a possible future scenario for South Africa in Africa using the backcast approach. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology followed is to present a brief political and economic history of African colonization and de‐colonization,...

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A case study on localising foresight in South Africa: using foresight in the context of local government participatory planning

Karuri‐Sebina, Geci; Rosenzweig, Lee - In: Foresight 14 (2012) 1, pp. 26-40

Purpose – This paper aims to present the process and results of a local‐level South African action research project on introducing foresight methods into a local government planning process. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the evolutionary process followed, and documents...

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The implications of Political Party Funding Act, No. 6 of 2018 in South Africa on records management

Netshakhuma, Nkholedzeni Sidney - In: Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 70 (2020) 4/5, pp. 293-303

Purpose This paper aims to assess the Section 12 of the Political Party Funding Act No. 6 of 2018 of South Africa with a view of recommending good records management practice. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a literature review and an analysis of political funding access to...

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The utilisation of library spaces by postgraduate students at a university in an African country

Bangani, Siviwe; Moyo, Mathew; Mashiyane, Dina Mokgadi - In: Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 69 (2019) 4/5, pp. 289-309

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the use of library spaces by postgraduate students at the North-West University in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach A survey research methodology was used in which both online and print questionnaires were used to gather data. Findings...

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The role of archives in documenting African National Congress Women’s League records that impacted the development of their records

Netshakhuma, Nkholedzeni Sidney - In: Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 70 (2020) 1/2, pp. 44-59

Purpose This paper aims to assess the role of archives in documenting African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) records on the liberation struggle of South Africa from 1960 to 1990 with a view to recommending the best method of collection and preservation of archival materials....

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