Managing Change in an Organisation-An Overview

In any organization, effective change management is a fundamental requirement for the success and continued survival of any business concern. It is almost impossible to read two consecutive issues of business papers in most countries without encountering at least one article about some organisation undergoing a major strategic or structural change. New units are acquired and old units sold off; divisions are created or combined; an organization moves from a functional to a matrix organizational structure; the authority of the chief executive officer or a staff department is increased or decreased; the new chief executive officer institutes a major reorganization; an entire level of management is eliminated and the decision making powers of lower level managers is dramatically increase

Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction Among Civilian Staff In The Zimbabwe Republic Police

Southern Africa has been witnessing an upsurge in the departure of technical expertise in virtually all sectors over the last five years (Stilwell, 2003). This has resulted in qualified personnel seeking greener pastures abroad. Movement of people from developing countries towards the developed world especially Europe and the Americas has been conspicuous. Anecdotes show that during the 1990s, total migration of professionals towards Western Europe and North America accounted for 30% of the flows registered throughout the world (ILO, 1996). It is estimated that in the year 2000 approximately 175million people, or 2.9% of the world’s population, were living outside their country of birth, compared to 100 million, or 1.8% of the total population, in 1995(Stilwell, 2003)

Leadership Influences on Turnover Intentions of Academic Staff in Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe

Southern Africa has been witnessing an upsurge in the departure of technical expertise in virtually all sectors over the last five years (Stilwell, 2003). Experienced leaders inspire employees and lead them by vision, energy and integrity. From this it is evident that the quality of leadership determines how the talents, potential, and commitment of employees are optimized for the benefit of the workplace. According to Kusluvan (2003:546) leadership and turnover intention are inextricably linked

Customer-Based University Branding as a Survival Strategy used by State Universities in Zimbabwe in the Face of Foreign Competition.

Customer-based branding is a critical branding approach for almost any organisation. This is also true for state universities, particularly those in Zimbabwe. State-owned universities in Zimbabwe do not receive adequate funding from the Government of Zimbabwe, which is financially challenged owing to a national economy that has been performing poorly for close to fifteen (15) years. Against this background, state owned universities find themselves increasingly obliged to compete for students in order to raise revenue to finance their daily operations as well as capital expenditure. The aim of this study was twofold: to investigate the impact of customer-based branding as a survival strategy to be used by state-owned universities in Zimbabwe in the face of foreign competition and to develop a model to brand universities. The study was a quantitative research conducted among one thousand students selected from four (4) state-owned universities using probability sampling as a sampling method and random sampling as a sampling technique to select the respondents

Biogas production vs. dung combustion as household energy in rural Ethiopia

The objective of the study was to investigate the potential of dung as primary and secondary energy source, i.e. direct combustion of dung and combustion of its secondary products biogas or dried digestate, under consideration of its quality as fertilizer. The results of the analysis show the similarity of dung and digestate regarding combustion characteristics. Fertilizer values proved better for digestate. However, calorific value of dung proved much lower than those of biogas. Thus, biogas represents a good alternative energy source with double benefit. Besides its better combustion characteristics compared to dried dung, it also delivers a superior fertilizer

Can religion kill? The association between membership of the Apostolic faith and child mortality in Zimbabwe

Existing literature has been equivocal about the effect of religion on utilization of health service and health outcomes. While followers of particularized theology hypothesis believe that doctrinal teachings, beliefs and values of religious groups directly influence health access and outcomes, the advocates of the selectivity hypothesis claim that the observed disparities between religious groups mainly reflect differential access to social and human capital which in turn determines health access and outcome rather than religion per se. Using household data from the Zimbabwe Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey 2009, we find that household heads’ affiliation with apostolic faith put children under five years old at greater risk of death compared to other religious groups. This effect remains strong even after controlling for a wide range of socio-economic and demographics characteristics of the households in multivariate logit regressions

An Analysis of Organisational Commitment by Academic Professionals in Tertiary Institutions in Zimbabwe

The aim of this study was to investigate organisational commitment in the era of the new psychological contract, or the psychological environment created by an economic down turn in Zimbabwe. The psychological contract that exists between employees and organisations is brittle due to many organisational changes which stem from the threatened business environment. The target population for this study consisted of 100 lecturers working at three state universities, namely Bindura University of Science Education, Chinhoyi University of Technology, and Masvingo State University. The results indicated that an increase in the number of positive human resource management (HRM) practices reported by respondents correlated with a decrease in violation and breach of the psychological contract

Effects of different lighting prorams on the perfomance of COBB 500 Broiler chickens.

In the present study, the effects of the two lighting programs on the feed intake and growth performance, carcass quality, health performance as well as mortality of the Cobb 500 broiler chickens were studied. A near continuous lighting program of 23L: ID and a restricted lighting program of 12L: 12D were used. For this purpose, 17 959 birds were reared under a continuous lighting program of 24L: 0D from day 1 to day 14. At 15 days of age, the birds were randomly allocated to six houses. The houses were then randomly allocated to the two treatments with three replicates in a completely randomized design. The study lasted for 30 days after which the data on the feed intake, feed conversion efficiency, weight gain, final live weights, fat content, carcass weights, dressing percentages, incidences of leg disorders, mortality percentages due to ascites, sudden death syndrome and other causes of mortality as well as the total flock mortality percentages were analyzed using the t test for independent samples using SPSS Version 16. No significant differences were observed on the effects of the two lighting programs on the feed con version efficiency, weight gain, final live weights, fat content, carcass weights, dressing percentages, incidences of leg disorders, mortality percentages due to ascites, sudden death syndrome and other causes of mortality as well as the total flock mortality percentages. Significant differences were observed on the effects of the two lighting programs on the feed intak

Brand Reputation Management within the Higher Education Sector: A Review of the Literature on Higher Education Brand Reputation Management

The purpose of this systemic review was to explore the nature of brand reputation management literature and how the appraisal will help higher education practitioners and brand reputation researchers to engender and refine research thoughts. The paper reviewed a number of issues such as the concept of branding in the context of higher education, commercialisation and marketisation, brand reputation management and the importance of branding in the higher education sector. An attempt was made to identify and integrate the arguments into a very consistent synthesis which shows the uses and impact of brand reputation management on higher education institutions‘ brand value