UP EXPERT OPINION: The impact of ambiguity on work quality in a hybrid work model

Posted on June 09, 2022

Recent research has indicated that, in addition to the anxiety induced by health fears and the uncertainty and disruption caused by the pandemic, the newly adopted hybrid workplaces can also increase the risk of mental health problems due to its complexity and interruption of the new normal.

HR Fulbright student jets off to Vanderbilt University, US

Posted on May 11, 2022

Lonwabo Makapela, a PhD fellow in the Department of Human Resource Management, will join Vanderbilt University in the US for 10 months as a visiting student researcher in gender studies under the US Fulbright Foreign Student Program.

Three more NRF A-rated researchers for the University of Pretoria

Posted on April 11, 2022

The University of Pretoria is proud to add a hat trick of three new National Research Foundation A-rated researchers to its rapidly growing list of NRF-rated researchers, now at 595, which is the highest nationally.

UP’s Prof Stella Nkomo’s management scholarship honoured

Posted on April 04, 2022

The Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division of the Academy of Management conferred the Rosa Luxemburg Award to Professor Stella Nkomo, of the Department of Human Resources Management, for her distinguished contributions to critical management scholarship.

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).

UP EXPERT OPINION: Myths of the diversity dilemma in the hiring practices of business schools

Posted on June 17, 2021

Business schools should proactively design practices that support marginalised faculty members, write UP’s Prof Jenny Hoobler and Alexis Smith Washington of Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business in Stillwater.

‘Public opinion is increasingly dictating the success or failure of companies and brands’ – UP academics on fixing reputational damage

Posted on November 13, 2020

In order to retain market value, a customer base and employee loyalty, an organisation must take stock of its reputation.

EXPERT ADVICE: On Boss’s Day, here’s how to identify and deal with workplace bullying

Posted on October 16, 2020

Boss’s Day is observed every October to encourage colleagues to strengthen their relationship in the workplace. Fostering a professional environment that is free of intimidating behaviour is one way to do this, and recognising workplace bullying is where it needs to begin.