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  • TAKE 5 with TAYLOR

    Posted on May 08, 2020

    Academic Achievers Profile: Taylor Montgomery

  • Five types of horrible (remote) bosses and how to handle them – UP expert

    Posted on April 29, 2020

    Like it or not, dealing with bosses is never easy, and it’s not going to get any easier, even from the safety of your home, but, hey, you coped then, you can cope now.

  • Human Resource Management celebrates academic achievers

    Posted on April 17, 2020

    The Department of Human Resource Management wishes to congratulate graduates that received their degrees in absentia on 6 April 2020.

  • Congratulations to autumn 2020 EMS graduates

    Posted on April 15, 2020

    The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) wishes to congratulate all the graduates who received their qualifications in absentia during the recent virtual graduation ceremony presided over by UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe.

  • Prof Nkomo receives 2020 AFAM Trailblazer Award

    Posted on March 24, 2020

    Prof Stella Nkomo, who holds a strategic appointment in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Department of Human Resource Management, has become the third recipient of the African Academy of Management (AFAM) Trailblazer Award.

  • Alumnus profile: Francis Wilkinson

    Posted on March 02, 2020

    The foundation of any successful business is the right people. “Once you have attracted the right ones, you need to invest heavily in their development,” stresses alumnus Francis ‘Frank’ Wilkinson, currently operational consultant in the UK whose ultimate dream is to build...

  • Prof Carrim co-edits pioneering book on diversity management

    Posted on February 18, 2020

    The Department of Human Resource Management congratulates Prof Nasima Carrim for her indispensable contribution to the publication of the first ever textbook on diversity management in South Africa. Prof Carrim is the leading co-editor of Managing diversity in the South African workplace, a...

  • Commercii committee closes their term with a big bang

    Posted on October 15, 2019

    The 2018/19 Executive Committee (EC) of Commercii, the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ faculty house, attended the UP Student Development Awards on 7 October 2019 at the Groenkloof Campus.

  • Prof Hoobler joins editorial board of Applied Psychology

    Posted on September 06, 2019

    Prof Jenny Hoobler from the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences will join the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology in January 2020.

  • UP awarded for excellent human resource standards

    Posted on September 06, 2019

    The Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences earned the University of Pretoria the award for the Best University in Human Resource (HR) Standards at the South African Board for People Practices’ (SABPP’s) gala event, hosted at the...

  • UP researchers call for women to lead socio-economic transformation

    Posted on August 28, 2019

    South Africa faces many social and economic problems including poverty and inequality, but researchers working to solve these issues say it is important to focus on women in order to fix them.

  • Prospective EMS students win big on ChooseUP Day

    Posted on August 23, 2019

    Staff and students at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) welcomed thousands of prospective students who visited the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield Campus to attend #ChooseUP Day on 17 August 2019.

  • Academic excellence celebrated at the EMS Dean’s List Awards

    Posted on August 01, 2019

    The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) hosted the annual Dean’s List Awards function on 23 July 2019, where top performers in the Faculty were celebrated for their outstanding academic achievements.

  • EMS Faculty Awards function honours top-performing academic staff

    Posted on June 07, 2019

    The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences hosted its annual awards function on 5 June 2019 in celebration of the achievements of academic staff during 2018.

  • Profs Hoobler and Nkomo’s article among the most-read in leading management journal

    Posted on March 08, 2019

    Department of Human Resource Management researchers Profs Jenny Hoobler and Stella Nkomo’s recent meta-analysis published in the Journal of Management is one of 10 of the most-read articles in that journal for 2018.

  • EMS students get ‘Ready for Work’

    Posted on November 19, 2018

    Five students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) have been selected as winners in the inaugural EMS Ready for Work Competition.

  • Top students recognised at the EMS Dean’s List Awards

    Posted on November 14, 2018

    Top performing students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were recently recognised during the annual EMS Dean’s List Awards function. The prestigious awards night is a highlight on the faculty calendar, as it honours both undergraduate and postgraduate students who have...

  • UP student wins Top Human Resources Student in South Africa award

    Posted on October 22, 2018

    When Frank Wilkinson failed to qualify for university entrance with his original matric results, he buckled down and prepared himself to take Cambridge A-level exams in a matter of months. Now he’s a third-year student at the University of Pretoria, and he’s just won an award for...

  • Best paper award at British Academy of Management conference

    Posted on October 01, 2018

    Ms Natasha Winkler Titus, a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Resource Management, along with her supervisors Dr Anne Crafford and Prof Karel Stanz, won the best full paper award in the Organisational Transformation and Change track at the annual conference of the British Academy of...

  • Women’s month: Spotlight on EMS achievers

    Posted on September 01, 2018

    The national commemoration of Women’s Month offers an opportunity to not only pay homage to the women who took to the streets in 1956 to march against the unjust pass laws of the day, but also to celebrate a new generation of women who have taken the baton forward and are making a...

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