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The workplace is transforming, is your workforce future-ready?
The workplace is transforming, is your workforce future-ready?
[Ilse van den Berg] In the first session of the workforce transformation breakout session at the Dell EMC Forum, Chris Buchanan, director of Client Solutions at Dell EMC covered the topic of the future-ready workforce... read
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship education: How can universities help reduce unemployment?
Entrepreneurship education: How can universities help reduce unemployment?

Prof Dr Chris Friedrich

South Africa has a high unemployment rate and sluggish economic growth. It's time to consider what our academic institutions can do to reduce unemployment and to help the poor... read
Applications open for The Hope Factory's 2017 mentorship programme
Applications open for The Hope Factory's 2017 mentorship programme
Enterprise and supplier development organisation, The Hope Factory is inviting applications from eligible entrepreneurs for the April 2017 intake of its entrepreneurial development programme... read
Uganda and Botswana have highest rates of female entrepreneurship
Uganda and Botswana have highest rates of female entrepreneurship
Mastercard has released the results of its inaugural Index of Women Entrepreneurs... read
Are managers the new entrepreneurs?
Are managers the new entrepreneurs?
While entrepreneurship is heralded a key lever for growth in the economy, investing in strong management will also pay dividends - and the earlier you start the better, researchers agree... read
HR Tools & Software
Defining yourself online in a competitive job market
Defining yourself online in a competitive job market
A strong online presence is a key driver of market awareness and brand differentiation for any organisation, and no less so for individual job seekers... read
Labour Law & Unions
ConCourt rules on prescription of reinstatement awards
ConCourt rules on prescription of reinstatement awards

Lauren Salt and Penjani Mseteka

Over the years, employers have been plagued with uncertainty regarding the intersection between the Prescription Act and the Labour Relations Act, specifically, in respect of the prescription of arbitration awards awarding reinstatement... read
Competition Commission prosecutes recruitment specialists
Competition Commission prosecutes recruitment specialists
The Competition Commission has decided to prosecute three advertising practitioners specialising in recruitment advertising services for price fixing, market division and collusive tendering... read
Management
Dipuo Peters names interim Prasa board
Dipuo Peters names interim Prasa board

Karl Gernetzky and Khulekani Magubane

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters named former Sanral CEO Nazir Alli to chair the board of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa)... read
Remember, your employees are not psychic!
Remember, your employees are not psychic!

Issued by Top Employers Institute

The best-laid organisational plans will come to nothing if the people in the organisation don't know about them... read
How to make performance management planning work for you
How to make performance management planning work for you
Setting clear performance objectives is still vital, despite the changes being made to many organisations' performance management processes... read
How collaboration can cut business costs
How collaboration can cut business costs

Matt McKay

As businesses look to cut expenses and employees strive to achieve the work-life balance, there seems to be a strange disconnect between the two. Yet collaboration technology can help with both... read
Judges forgo salary increases
Judges forgo salary increases
Judges in South Africa are sacrificing their salary increases for the 2016-17 financial year... read
SA making notable progress in closing the gender gap
SA making notable progress in closing the gender gap
South Africa currently ranks 15th out of 144 countries when it comes to closing the gender gap... read
Women in senior executive positions remain marginal: survey
Women in senior executive positions remain marginal: survey
A patriarchal culture has hindered the growth of women holding key executive positions in South Africa. read
Transport Minister fires Prasa board
Transport Minister fires Prasa board
Transport Minister Dipuo Peters fired the Passenger Rail Authority of SA (Prasa) board unceremoniously on Wednesday, 8 March 2017... read
Dr Mathews Phosa graces the cover of the highly anticipated 17th edition of Impumelelo: Top Empowerment Companies
Dr Mathews Phosa graces the cover of the highly anticipated 17th edition of Impumelelo: Top Empowerment Companies

Issued by Topco Media

So what can readers expect from the 17th annual edition of Impumelelo: Top Empowerment Companies, released in the same month as the government announced a new push for radical socio-economic transformation?.. read
Anglo American South Africa awarded Best Managed Company at Top 500 Awards
Anglo American South Africa awarded Best Managed Company at Top 500 Awards

Issued by Topco Media

Up against competing heavyweights Naspers, Zeder Investments and Woolworths, Anglo American South Africa took top honours at the inaugural Top 500 Awards, held at Melrose Arch... read
Expectations around childcare a key factor holding women in the workplace back
Expectations around childcare a key factor holding women in the workplace back

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

Women remain underrepresented in leadership roles – and the reasons are more complex than simply navigating a patriarchal workspace, a new survey reveals... read
Parliament finalises candidates for SABC's interim board
Parliament finalises candidates for SABC's interim board

Bekezela Phakathi

Parliament's communications portfolio committee moved at breakneck speed on Wednesday to finalise the list of candidates to serve on the board of the SABC on an interim basis... read
Out with hot desking, in with flexible workspaces
Out with hot desking, in with flexible workspaces
As office space trends continue to evolve, savvy businesses are moving beyond shared desks to flexible workspaces... read
Source: Lonmin
Lonmin hammered by resignation
Lonmin shares fell more than 10%, when it told the market its chief operating officer, Ben Moolman, had resigned for "personal reasons"... read
Addis cracks international nod for ethical business practices, labour relations
Addis cracks international nod for ethical business practices, labour relations
Addis is the first South African-owned manufacturer to comply fully with the international requirements of the SEDEX Global Conformance Programme... read
De Villiers and Von Holdt.
#BrandManagerMonth: Mentoring the future moguls

Leigh Andrews

Imagine giving your career a much-needed boost by completing a special CEO grooming programme tailored to SA's specific market conditions. Burson-Marsteller SA shares how this could be your reality through their Executive Development Programme… read
Skills Development & Training
SA foundation named in Top 100 Global Leaders in Training and Development
SA foundation named in Top 100 Global Leaders in Training and Development
At the 4th World Training and Development Congress, part of the World HRD Congress held in Mumbai, India recently, the Nunnovation Africa Foundation was recognised as one of the Top 100 Global Leaders in Training and Development by the congress judges... read
‘Don't crucify the Gauteng Health MEC'
‘Don't crucify the Gauteng Health MEC'

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

The deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in Gauteng during the course of 2016 is a medical Marikana and an appalling example of the failure of leadership, says Prof. Norman Faull of Lean Institute Africa at UCT GSB... read
International
Tesco saves £4m through HR practices reducing carbon footprint
Tesco saves £4m through HR practices reducing carbon footprint
Academics at Loughborough University have helped Tesco reduce its carbon footprint and save on its energy bill by proposing alterations to the working practices... read
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Leigh Andrews

NEWSWATCH: There's a new mobile scam doing the rounds – and it's affecting freelancers and those who do international business… read
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