South African Journal of Business Management最新文献_第9页

Factors influencing electronic human resource management implementation in public organisations in an emerging economy: An empirical study 新兴经济体公共组织实施电子人力资源管理的影响因素:实证研究

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2937

R. Amoako, Yuanchun Jiang, S. S. Adu-Yeboah, M. F. Frempong, S. Tetteh

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Exploring opportunism, conflict, noneconomic satisfaction and economic satisfaction in a B2B context – A buyer and seller perspective 从买方和卖方的角度探讨B2B环境中的机会主义、冲突、非经济满意度和经济满意度

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.3346

Guan Jyh-Liang, T. Lee, M. Roberts-Lombard, G. Svensson, Nils M. Høgevold

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The nexus between effectual actions and small business performance 有效的行动和小企业绩效之间的联系

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-07-21 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.3188

Ubochioma U.S. Osuigwe, C. Eresia-Eke

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Relationship between personality traits and academic performance on a Master of Business Administration programme 工商管理硕士课程学生人格特征与学习成绩的关系

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-07-12 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2745

R. Schoeman, Willem F. Kotzee

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A qualitative system dynamics perspective on the contribution of information technology credibility towards business and information technology alignment 从定性系统动力学的角度看信息技术可信度对业务和信息技术一致性的贡献

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-07-11 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v52i1.2774

M. Butler

{"title":"A qualitative system dynamics perspective on the contribution of information technology credibility towards business and information technology alignment","authors":"M. Butler","doi":"10.4102/sajbm.v52i1.2774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v52i1.2774","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The dynamic interdependence between the deployment of technological assets and organisational performance remains a challenge for modern enterprises. Organisations reinforce competitiveness and improve performance when business activities and information technology (IT) efforts are aligned. The credibility of the IT organisation is an important influence on alignment. This research guides managers and directs future research to improve IT credibility.Design/methodology/approach: Interviews with senior leaders about factors influencing IT credibility provided rich data for analyses. The dynamic complexity of creating a credible IT function to ensure alignment was captured using qualitative system dynamic diagrams. A causal loop diagram was constructed to identify feedback loops and leverage points.Findings: The analysis confirms the impact of three factors identified by prior research. It provides a new perspective on portfolio-level IT governance’s contribution to establishing credibility. The value of using past failure to develop credibility through ownership and resolution emerged from the analysis.Practical implications: The results provide guidelines to improve the IT organisation’s credibility to improve business and IT alignment. Leverage points to improve credibility are provided, and research into resolving past failure as a mechanism to success is suggested.Originality/value: While most of the extant literature focused on static alignment factors, causal loop diagrams provided insight into IT credibility’s systemic nature. A new factor (resolving past failure), a new perspective (portfolio level governance), and confirmation of existing factors and identifying leverage points contribute to practice and science.","PeriodicalId":45649,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of Business Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42871127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ethical leadership, organisational citizenship behaviours and social loafing: The mediating effect of perceived organisational politics 伦理型领导、组织公民行为与社会闲散:组织政治感知的中介作用

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2842

Ayshe Hyusein, S. Eyupoglu

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The role of group coaching in developing leadership effectiveness in a business school leadership development programme 在商学院领导力发展课程中，小组辅导在发展领导力有效性方面的作用

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.3105

Gloria Mbokota, A. Reid

{"title":"The role of group coaching in developing leadership effectiveness in a business school leadership development programme","authors":"Gloria Mbokota, A. Reid","doi":"10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.3105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.3105","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the role of group coaching in developing leadership effectiveness within the context of a business school leadership development programme, which included both classroom facilitation and group coaching.Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a sequential, mixed-methods approach, combining a pre-programme and post-programme, 360-degree, multisource feedback instrument and in-depth interviews with South African women managers to assess changes in their leadership effectiveness.Findings/results: The results indicate that participants’ leadership effectiveness had changed significantly as a result of the programme. More specifically, the group coaching dimension appeared to play a role in developing personal competence, evidenced in participants’ enhanced sense of direction, self-awareness, self-confidence and relationship with their authentic self. It also appeared to facilitate the development of social competence, evidenced in participants’ enhanced understanding of, and relations with, others, as well as their ability to empower others. This was made possible by affording participants a psychologically safe place in which learning and growth could take place and by providing them with external inputs and feedback.Practical implications: The positive role played by group coaching in developing leadership effectiveness in a business school leadership development programme suggests that the learning approach could be replicated in other academic environments and in corporate settings.Originality/value: The framework that was developed suggests that group coaching can contribute to the building of personal and social competence in a leadership development programme. This framework may assist other practitioners to motivate for the inclusion of group coaching in their leadership development programmes.","PeriodicalId":45649,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of Business Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42729593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How to create Shared Value in mining organisations 如何在矿业组织中创造共享价值

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2907

Talifhani Khubana, C. Rootman, E. Smith

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Sensemaking and corporate social responsibility: Implications for stakeholder communication amid the COVID-19 pandemic 感知和企业社会责任：新冠肺炎大流行对利益相关者沟通的影响

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2806

Sherwin Govender, A. Smit

{"title":"Sensemaking and corporate social responsibility: Implications for stakeholder communication amid the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Sherwin Govender, A. Smit","doi":"10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2806","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The aim of this research study was to establish via a linguistic analysis of stakeholder communication texts, how organisational sensemaking in a crisis situation, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, might influence the social responsibility orientation of companies.Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from public social responsibility statements of 10 financial services companies before and immediately after the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and analysed using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) method. In this way, qualitative information could be turned into statistical data and made comparable across the sample.Results: The results confirm that the social responsibility sensemaking processes in companies manifest in their public stakeholder communications. While the analysed statements indicate an increase in affiliation with the predicament of stakeholders, it also reveals reduced levels of transparency. This tension between affiliation and transparency holds consequences for authenticity and reputation in corporate social responsibility (CSR) sensemaking and orientation.Practical implications: Corporate decision-makers and communication experts should take special care of the relationship between CSR sensemaking and stakeholder communication as interconnected processes in a purposeful and mindful manner.Originality/value: The research study demonstrates how the analysis of textual statements can be used as a lens into CSR sensemaking in the context of disruption and adversity. This establishes a method for measurement of CSR orientation that can assess an organisation’s current orientation, as well as shifts in orientation because of crisis situations. Organisations can use this information to evaluate their CSR communications so that they are more aligned with intentions.","PeriodicalId":45649,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of Business Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48782836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effecting successful shared value creation: The role of organisations in fence-line communities 实现成功的共享价值创造：组织在围栏社区中的作用

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South African Journal of Business Management Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2992

Ronel Kotze, Karl Hofmeyr

{"title":"Effecting successful shared value creation: The role of organisations in fence-line communities","authors":"Ronel Kotze, Karl Hofmeyr","doi":"10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v53i1.2992","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Society’s expectations of business are said to be increasing, with business expected to play an influential role from a triple bottom line perspective. Shared value creation is a new, emerging theme in the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The stagnating South African economy, the increasing incidence of protests against community conditions and the increased expectations of stakeholders for business frame the study.Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative research study aimed to gain insight into how shared value creation could be effected in a developing country. Additionally, it provided insights into the reason for the nature of the expectations, the approach in effecting shared value creation, and the benefits that could be realised by employing this business model.Findings/results: The study found that shared value creation can be effected successfully through a partnership between government, business and communities together with strong inter-stakeholder. Measurement of outcomes and feedback to the various stakeholders will strengthen relationships with employees and fence-line communities and lead to improved business performance. Benefits were identified as improved social capital, reduced dependency on companies and a sustainable business.Practical implications: This concept proposes an approach to social responsibility that will enhance the competitive advantage of the firm and is presented as strategic CSR. Numerous literary contributions have criticised the concept for being too vague in its approach and for being built on western world principles.Originality/value: Understanding the role of institutions (or lack thereof) in ecosystems and the networks that are established and required was considered important in furthering the operationalising of social responsibility concepts such as shared value creation.","PeriodicalId":45649,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of Business Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47538607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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