Prestigious journal invites UP professor to serve as consulting editor

Posted on October 15, 2015

Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences was recently invited to serve as a consulting editor (CE) on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP).

International labour academics hosted by Human Resource Management

Posted on September 29, 2015

No less than seven visitors from different universities all over the world visited the Department of Human Resource Management on 14 September 2015. These visitors, all academics in labour relations and labour law from Russia, the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland, were the guests of Dr Paul Smit.,...

Research grant for African project awarded to EMS team

Posted on August 31, 2015

Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Courtney Masterson, doctoral candidate from the University of Illinois, USA, and Elsabé Buys, MCom Industrial Psychology student were recently awarded the 2014/2015 Emerald...

HR expert receives best paper award from the Academy of Management

Posted on April 16, 2015

Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department Human Resource Management received the Best Paper Proceeding Award for the 75th Academy of Management conference, to be held in Vancouver, Canada in August 2015.

Doctoral students welcomed

Posted on March 12, 2015

The Department of Human Resource Management welcomed six new doctoral students at the end of February. This year's doctoral programme will include a year-long classroom seminar series in the literature and theory of organisational behaviour, industrial-organisational psychology and human resource...

Research on SADC transnational labour relations furthered in Germany

Posted on February 16, 2015

Two MCom students from the Department of Human Resource Management will visit the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany from 22 to 29 March 2015. Helena du Preez and Leani van Zyl are both busy with their mini dissertations regarding different aspects of a larger research project on...