EXPERT OPINION: The future was supposed to be female – so why the bias against women leaders?

Posted on March 08, 2022

Today’s biases against women in the workplace are subtler and harder to detect than in the past. Yet they impact women’s careers in real, detrimental ways. They strengthen the glass ceiling that constrains women from leadership roles.

EXPERT OPINION: Social contract still in tatters after budget and state of the nation address

Posted on March 07, 2022

Our social contract has not been salvaged, neither by the state of the nation address nor by a national budget that could admittedly have been much worse had we not been granted a reprieve by our old faithful, the mining sector. The asymmetrical enforcement of the social contract violates the...

Greening SA’s economy is a way to combat unemployment and poverty

Posted on March 01, 2022

Findings from modelling exercises reveal that by focusing on green economic recovery measures, SA can reconstruct its economy in an improved, more inclusive way.

UP’s women and work expert elected fellow of premier organisational psychology association

Posted on February 14, 2022

Professor Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at UP has been elected as Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

‘There is no short cut to success,’ says UP’s top economics researcher

Posted on January 20, 2022

“I just love doing research, asking questions and looking for answers. With economics not being a lab-focused discipline, I need to ensure that the research that I do adds value not only to the discipline, but also possibly to economic agents such as policy makers and investors,” says...

EXPERT OPINION: Greening South Africa’s economy is a growth path out of unemployment and poverty - and is the right thing to do

Posted on January 19, 2022

Findings from in-depth modelling exercises — undertaken in collaboration with global partners, including Cambridge Econometrics, the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) and the International Labour Organisation’s Partnership for Action on Green Economy — reveal that by...

How changes to South Africa’s value-added tax affect compliance among small firms

Posted on January 19, 2022

The South African VAT system is found to be mildly regressive, where a larger percentage of income is taken from the poor in comparison to the rich.

UP’s Department of Financial Management academics win international excellence awards from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Posted on December 21, 2021

Elize Kirsten and Dr Zack Enslin, both senior lecturers in the Department of Financial Management at the University of Pretoria (UP), received global honours at the 2021 Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Excellence Awards.