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Work may be a panacea for poverty but the world of work in 2018 is characterised by ‘Working Poverty,’ including poor wages. Living wages are a contested idea for resolving the paradox, with empirical evidence on how they might do so being scarce. Theoretically, a living wage enables people to escape from poverty traps, indicated by qualitative improvements in quality of work and life beyond a set...
Renewable energy technologies need to be implemented to improve the current lack of access to energy on the African continent. However, the implementation of renewable energy technologies in Africa often fails, or the technologies are found to be unsustainable in the longer term. Previous research determined eleven factors that should be taken into account for the selection of sustainable, renewable...
Change in software is considered the most prominent source of risk, affecting quality, cost and time. Managing software change is a resource consuming activity, and is particularly daunting when financial and human resources are limited. The complexity and necessity of properly managing software change has been highlighted in literature, but the process of managing it with limited resources still...
Organisations are increasingly delivering their products and services in project specific environments with emphasis placed on the success of the various projects. The instrumentation and control engineering (ICE) department at Sasol Secunda executes a lot of projects for a number of business units at Sasol Synfuels in Secunda. The projects are characterised by maintenance, as well as introduction...
Projects are executed by people. Human Resource Management (HRM) processes are required to make the most effective use of the people in a project environment in order for organisations to be competitive. Project Orientated Organisations (POO) have specific characteristics which have special requirements in terms of an organisation's HRM processes as opposed to those processes employed by classically...
Public sector organisations consist of complex systems and its people the lifeblood and links which chain together organisational performance. The Delphi research methodology bases a South African local government organisation, the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM) as its context yet also highlights factors typical to many public sector organisations. Career management success factors...
Unemployment in South Africa has increased to an alarming 24.3% of the job seeking population. As a result, the socio-economic well-being of South Africa is severely threatened due to activities such as social exclusion and crime. Consequently, the fight against unemployment has rarely been more pressing and the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) was established as a skills transfer programme...
Enterprise data warehouses can add significant value to organisations through increased strategic advantage levels if executed properly yet development projects in this area remain very challenging and involve high levels of risk. The global economy is currently in turmoil. In order for organisations to survive the global recession, now more than ever, relevant information is required to make decisions...
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