TALENT MANAGEMENT

Employer Branding in South Africa: Where Do Graduates Want to Work?
Employer branding has become central to the business objectives of many companies and plays a central role in many companies’ overarching business strategies. In a global economy that is largely defined by knowledge and therefore people, attracting and then retaining the best people is a key driver to the success of a company. In this article, Jenali Skuse examines the findings of Universum’s recent survey at all 23 universities in South Africa, based on a range of career-related expectations and preferences of students in South Africa; and discusses the implications of the findings for companies as employers.

REMUNERATION

CEO Pay: What Really Matters?
The question of which element within a company influences CEO guaranteed pay the most has drawn much attention, not only from Human Resources professionals, but from the general public and shareholders of public companies as well. This topic drove much debate last year with questions regarding the inequality between CEO and average employee pay, as well as the link between CEO pay and performance. Bryden Morton explores this issue in more depth.

COACHING AND MENTORING

Business Coaching in 2020: Collaboration and Contribution
Where will business coaching be in 2020? Although we can’t say with any certainty, there are some indications of where the discipline is headed. Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron discusses five areas key to the future of business coaching: professionalisation; research; mastery of practice; education and development of coaches; and coaching and society.

HR SPOTLIGHT

Interview with Sam Ngumeni, Chief Operating Officer: Woolworths
Michele van Eeden speaks to Sam Ngumeni, (Chief Operating Officer: Woolworths) about the HR strategies, challenges and successes behind the organisation.

PERFORMANCE

Ten Critical features to becoming a High-Performance/High-Engagement/High-Responsibility Organisation: The Critical Key Is People Effectiveness
There is a newly emerging world order informed by a reformulated competitive equation: the continuous delivery of innovative, customised, high-quality products and services, simultaneously bringing costs down, and getting products and services more quickly to markets, from inception to introduction. This equation is a based on recalibrated competitive maths: respond twice as fast, deliver twice as much, at twice the speed, at half the cost, within half the accepted life span, and do all of the above on an ongoing basis, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, for anyone, writes Prof. Theo Veldsman.

WELLNESS

The Impact of Stress on Situational Awareness, with Specific Reference to Safety Consciousness
It is well known through research that the socioeconomic reality of modern living impacts on us as humans. The causal factor relating to what is known as stress, burn-out, exhaustion, the continuous adaption to change in modern living and the relentless pressure to perform is the inability to cope within a given environment. If an organism, including us as humans, can no longer cope, the organism will first defend, then degrade, and eventually will be so overwhelmed by its reality that it dies, writes Dr Jürgen Seifert.