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  • Striving for balance: Examining the work-family interface in Africa

    Posted on September 15, 2015

    Getting the balance between work and family right is not only vital for better labour-market outcomes, but can also greatly enhance the well-being of workers and their families and lead to overall positive human development.

  • 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...

  • Human Resource Management greets two colleagues

    Posted on July 29, 2015

    The Department of Human Resource Management said goodbye to two dear staff members on 30 June 2015.

  • Meta-analyst visits the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

    Posted on July 24, 2015

    Brenton Wiernik, a doctoral student in industrial and organisational psychology at the University of Minnesota, USA, visited the Department of Human Resource Management in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences from 16 June to 3 July 2015. Brenton is working with the Department...

  • Shoulder to shoulder with the best: EMS staff attends the EAWOP 2015 congress

    Posted on July 22, 2015

    Prof Chantal Olckers and Prof Karel Stanz of the Department of Human Resource Management were part of a South African delegation attending the 17th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) in Oslo, Norway, in May 2015. The event is the largest and most...

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam hosts UP researcher and lecturer

    Posted on June 10, 2015

    Dr Paul Smit, lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Management, is currently on a three-month staff exchange programme and research visit at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

  • Human Resource Management rewards academic achievers

    Posted on June 02, 2015

    The Department of Human Resource Management recognised its undergraduate and postgraduate academic achievers at the recent 2015 departmental prize-giving ceremony.

  • 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...

  • Best Professor in Human Resource Management

    Posted on November 14, 2014

    Recommendations regarding suitable candidates for the awards are made by experts from across the world. The criteria are based on personal information, students’ perception, graduated students’ opinion and the positions that candidates occupy in their organisation.

  • UP's Dr Paul Smit invited to deliver papers at prestigious universities

    Posted on May 09, 2014

    The 1st Multi-disciplinary Summit of Global and International Research Associations will be held at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia during May 2014. Dr Paul Smit, of the Department of Human Resource Management, has been invited to present

  • Researcher receives the 2013 Emerald African Management Research Fund Award

    Posted on March 14, 2014

    Dr Nasima Carrim of the Department of Human Resource Management has been commended an award for a research project that she is doing in the field of management.

  • Top international researcher visits the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

    Posted on March 13, 2014

    Prof Manfred Weiss from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany visited and presented lectures at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.

  • Research project on transnational labour relations

    Posted on February 25, 2014

    Prof Manfred Weiss from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany is mentoring Dr Paul Smit of UP

  • HR students powering possibility in the South African workplace

    Posted on January 21, 2014

    Madele Nelson, an Industrial Psychology master

  • Doctoral student wins prestigious international award

    Posted on October 16, 2013

    A study on how managers in information technology (IT) companies in South Africa perceive and manage virtual workers, awarded Dr Karen Luyt the prestigious Emerald Best International Dissertation Award. Dr Karen Luyt received a PhD in Organisation Behavio

  • Presentation on career advancement

    Posted on July 23, 2013

    During May 2013, Dr Nasima Carrim of the Department of Human Resource Management attended the 16th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP) in M

  • PhD

    Posted on June 03, 2013

    Two students of the Department of Human Resource Management received a PhD degree in Organisational Behaviour and one in Industrial and Organisational Psychology during the April 2013 graduation ceremony of the University of Pretoria.

  • Research on the establishment of regional labour standards for the SADC

    Posted on May 27, 2013

    Dr Paul Smit, an academic in the Department of Human Resource Management, attended and delivered a paper at the 11th International Conference in Commemoration of Prof Marco Biagi, held in Modena, Italy. The title of Conference was

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