May 25, 2015
Businesses across major African economies such as Kenya and Nigeria are coming under increasing pressure to align their strategies for retaining talent, compensating employees and engaging with their workforces with good international practices. That’s according to...
May 19, 2015
After years of strong economic growth across the continent, African organisations face an enormous demand for skills to keep expanding their businesses. A recent survey from EY shows that 70% of African firms are recruiting – yet many report that they are taking...
May 18, 2015
As the risks facing business grow, and the obligation to manage those risks becomes entrenched in law and codes like King III, a new profession has emerged: business continuity management (BCM). These professionals have the responsibility of ensuring that the business...
May 15, 2015
By virtue of the fact that learning and development (L&D) functions in the education, training and development (ETD) sector, many believe that its role purely relates to training facilitators and human resource departments, says Mark Orpen, CEO of The Institute of...
May 13, 2015
The government has been talking about its R845-billion infrastructure build programme for some time now, but a growing number of construction companies – and engineering firms – are complaining about the government’s lack of building and investing, with many companies...
May 11, 2015
Consulting Engineers South Africa’s (CESA) latest Bi-Annual Economic and Capacity Survey June to December 2014, indicates that after a more optimistic 2013, conditions in the first six months of 2014 appeared to have been less satisfactory.The level of satisfaction...
