Human resource management in Africa: current research and future directions–evidence from South Africa and across the continent

G Wood, C Bischoff - The International Journal of Human Resource …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This review article supplements and extends earlier reviews on the state and practice of
HRM and employment in Africa, encompassing earlier landmark empirical studies. Work …

[HTML][HTML] Why skills anticipation in African VET systems needs to be decolonized: The wide-spread use and limited value of occupational standards and competency …

S Allais - International Journal of Educational Development, 2023 - Elsevier
The shift from manpower-planning to labour market analysis and skills anticipation has been
analyzed since the 80 s in this journal and elsewhere, with the aim of improving. insights into …

Skilled labour shortage: a qualitative study of Ghana's training and apprenticeship system

DT Ayentimi, J Burgess, K Dayaram - Human Resource …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The impacts of training and apprenticeship education towards building high-level technical
and vocational skills that support human capital development and attracting foreign direct …

[PDF][PDF] Leading in a global context: The balancing act between leadership and management

N Sobratee, S Bodhanya - Journal of Business and Retail Management …, 2018 - jbrmr.com
Global mega-trends are leading to increasing levels of complexity, dynamism andturbulence
within organisations. In an uncertain economy, organisations need real strategies that will …

The emergence of an education policy dispositif in South Africa: An analysis of educational discourses associated with the fourth industrial revolution

A Fataar - Journal of Education (University of KwaZulu-Natal), 2020 - scielo.org.za
The notion of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) has recently entered the public and policy
domain in South Africa. It has rapidly found resonance in policy discourse and the popular …

[HTML][HTML] 'I wanna die a slow death when I'm busy with that annual training report….': Why employer engagement for skills planning in South Africa goes wrong

S Allais, S Ngcwangu - International Journal of Educational Development, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper explores systems in South Africa to obtain skills needs information from
employers, build employer-engagement, and direct training funds to the training required by …

Beyond 'supply and demand': Moving from skills 'planning'to seeing skills as endogenous to the economy

SM Allais - Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education …, 2022 - journals.co.za
This article questions the notion of supply and demand of skills, and, accordingly, the rules
and tools that have been developed for skills anticipation in South Africa. I argue that there is …

An elusive search for skills: assessing debates, practices, and experiences in South Africa

S Ngcwangu - International Journal of Training Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Planning and identifying skills need is mediated by pre-existing social relations and
structures of power in the society. The South African state has explored various methods …

Management of Leader Quality and Modern Leadership for Religious-Based Higher Education Improvement.

A Susar, I Arifin, A Imron - Journal of Higher Education …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
This study aimed to analyze in depth and objectively the quality of modern management of
leaders and leadership in religious-based higher education in Indonesia to find a model for …

[PDF][PDF] Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Industrialization while Realizing the Demographic Dividend

S Mehrotra, S Allais, V Schoer, JK Parida - 2022 - r4d.ch
The conceptual foundation of this synthesis paper of the R4D projects is based on a dual
synergy theoretical model, which draws its inspiration from Amartya Sen's Capabilities …