Browsing Masters Degrees (Management) by Title
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Barriers to effective workplace skills development in the electrical sector.
(2012)Electrical contractors are evolving though a challenging phase in the maturing democratic South Africa. Government has allocated funding and has mandated skills development to the Sector Educational and Training Authorities ... -
Barriers to the implementation of ISO 14001 (with special reference to the Durban Automotive Cluster).
(2004)The re-emergence of South Africa into the global automotive market has had a significant impact on domestically based Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs) and their component suppliers. While South Africa's exposure to ... -
Brand naming strategies by small medium and micro enterprises in the eThekwini Municipal area.
(2014)Branding is a concept in Marketing that has become synonymous with success and defines the profitability possibilities and capabilities for organisations. Due to this, corporate organisations have been known to value the ... -
Building hisense brand equity through selected marketing programmes : a study on the relationship among brand equity, marketig mix elements and consumer response.
(2006)The structural research framework of the effects of marketing mix elements on brand equity and customer response is defined with the existing theoretical findings. Research hypotheses are defined according to the identified ... -
Business-to-business e-commerce in the South African feed industry.
(2002)S.A. Bioproducts, a biotechnology company that started in the 1993 manufactures and markets a product called Lysine, which is an animal feed additive. It operates in both the international and local animal feed markets, ... -
Can "podcasts" significantly improve first time, first year economics students' results?
(2010)Abstract available from the print copy or the electronic version of the thesis. -
Can credit derivative instruments be utilised by South African banks to effectively hedge the credit risk they face in lending to the small, medium and micro enterprise market?
(2002)The objective of this research proposal is to explore the extent to which credit derivatives can be used effectively by domestic financial institutions, in particular, Commercial Banks to hedge the credit risk associated ... -
A case study of the capital structure decisions in practice in the real estates sector of the J.S.E.
(2003)An ongoing debate in the corporate finance world concerns the question of a firm's optimal capital structure. More specifically, is there a way of dividing a firm's capital into debt and equity so as to maximize the value ... -
The challenges faced by African women in management : a case of the National Research Foundation.
(2017)At the dawn of the new South Africa (SA), the introduction of many policies and strategies that included new employment and labour laws aimed at transforming the country resulted in an increased number of African women ... -
The challenges faced by CMT employers in the clothing industry in the greater Durban area.
(2008)This research study examines the challenges facing CMTs in the Durban area. The researcher conducted a literature review on the evolution of the clothing industry, internationally and locally, the emergence of the CMT ... -
Challenges facing the development of small businesses in the rural areas of the Free State Province.
(2013)Small businesses play a significant role in economic development of the country. However, their growth seems to be constrained by various challenges. Therefore, this study sought to establish the specific factors that ... -
Challenges in implementing an e-Government website in Guinea-Bissau.
(2011)This research assesses the challenges involved in the implementation of an e-Government website in Guinea-Bissau. Special attention is given to Government ministries and their role in implementing the e-Government website. ... -
Challenges of a performance management development system in a learning organisation : a case study of the Department of Transport, Pietermartizburg.
(2010)This study investigates the challenges of implementing a performance management development system (PMDS) in the Department of Transport as a learning organisation. The objectives were: * To evaluate the PMDS that is ... -
Challenges of transporting retail goods into a landlocked country : the case of importing into Zimbabwe.
(2015)Landlocked countries over the world are presented with vast challenges in the import market. Importing goods, especially business-to-consumer goods come with a list of matters such as, transport costs, fluctuating exchange ... -
Change management challenges facing Transnet National Ports Authority in implementing the New Engineering Contract (NEC) form.
(2013)The South African democratic order has been characterized by a number of legislative changes, which are aimed at transforming organisations. Among the laws that have been enacted is the Construction Industry Development ... -
Change management in a public sector organisation : a case study of the South African Revenue Services (SARS)
(2002)This study was an evaluation of the approach to change that is used in the public sector. The approach that is chosen ultimately has a bearing on the management of change in an organisation. The study used a case study ... -
Cognition of advertisements, peer endorsement and tweens' propensity to consume.
(2013)Tweens are a new cohort of children who are not considered children, but have not developed into fully autonomous teenagers (Hulan, 2007: 31). Tweens are regarded as the “richest generation of children” (Lindstrom, 2004: ... -
The communication efforts of cellular companies to improve relationship marketing.
(2006)The development of relationship marketing, which is oriented towards developing lasting relationships with clients, emerged in the 1990's. The concept suggests that by better understanding customers on an individual level ... -
Community management of rural water supplies in South Africa : Alfred Nzo district municipality case study.
(2006)South African legislation, as summarised in The Strategic Framework for Water Services (Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, 2003), makes local authorities responsible for all water services to individual consumers. ... -
Community participation in local governance : a systemic analysis of Ethekwini Municipality's design for effectiveness.
(2005)The study did a systemic analysis of eThekwini Municipality's design for effectiveness looking at community participation in local governance. The study was conducted by using Participatory Action Research methodology. ...