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Grahamstown : households with boarders/lodgers, relatives or two or more families

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Plan of Grahamstown

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Grahamstown : plan showing portion of Cemetery required by S.A.R.

Grahamstown : dwellings in the sample having inadequate sleeping accommodation

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Free Church mission and Fort Hare : plan of the location and buildings

Demystifying leadership connectivity: rediscovering the soul of leadership

- Poisat, Paul

  • Authors: Poisat, Paul
  • Subjects: Leadership , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/35773 , vital:33811
  • Description: INTRODUCTION: A Google search on ‘leadership’ produced 4.2 million articles, books, blogs and webinars on how to become a better leader. Most of the literature, comprising experts and the popular press, abound with formulistic prescriptive steps endorsed by two or three iconic figures that support their regimen. Regardless of the plethora of literature in leadership providing practical and logical tactics, many fall short on implementation and thus result in failure. What numerous sources fail to acknowledge is that the great leaders apply these tactics together with their innate skills to offer clear direction for themselves and their followers. Providing a clear vision and/or strategy to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity is one of the foremost abilities distinguishing leaders in our rapidly changing world and the ability to take employees with them. In addition, various individual (personality, values, cultural, ability) and contextual (nature of the business, complexity, rate of change, work team, diversity) factors may contribute to leadership failure that is characterised by a lack of vision, uncertainty, bullying, management by exclusion, and in extreme cases fraud and corruption. Regardless of the proliferation of leadership literature the world has never been more desperate for sound leadership. We have enough leaders but not enough leadership. With all the literature on leadership, how do you find the essence of leadership?
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Of science and small things: recollections of the past twenty(-)odd years

- Botha, J. R

  • Authors: Botha, J. R
  • Subjects: Nanoscience , Nanotechnology , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20867 , vital:29409
  • Description: I will start, therefore, with an overview of achievements in a “new” field of endeavour, a science of small things, popularly called nanoscience, and its spin-off called nanotechnology. I will present a brief history, look at the approaches that have been followed by scientists and engineers to develop and understand small things, and summarise some of the benefits to society in terms of new materials and processes, energy storage and generation, electronics, environmental applications, medicine and transportation. Since our own research focuses on the development on semiconductors, I will conclude the scientific part of the presentation by considering the contribution of semiconductors to the development of nanotechnology and highlight a few examples from our own research during the past two decades on the development of nano-scale semiconductor structures, like nanorods, quantum wells and superlattices.
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Plan of Lovedale

Grahamstown : unemployed male whites , 1947-1951

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Statistical base for planning service centres in Transkei's north-west region

- Osmond, Lange, Vandeverre, Haarhoff, Goldswain and Burger

The invisible enemy of satellite electronics

- Smith, Farouk

  • Authors: Smith, Farouk
  • Subjects: Aerospace engineering , Extraterrestrial radiation , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/53574 , vital:45642
  • Description: Spacecraft electronics are susceptible to the adverse effects of space radiation. Our jobs as engineers and scientists is to find ways to characterize these effects and find ways to mitigate it in order to ensure seamless operation of the satellite mission.
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Beyond greening: reflections on the business sustainability imperative

- Smith, Elroy Eugene

  • Authors: Smith, Elroy Eugene
  • Subjects: Sustainable development , Environmental economics , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20768 , vital:29387
  • Description: This paper sets out to reflect that organisations should go beyond greening and embrace the sustainability imperative. The concept of greening and environmentalism reached a ceiling as it focuses only on short-term green issues rather than on long-term sustainability goals. Narrow concerns for the natural environment often dilute the true meaning of sustainability. Yet, the field of sustainability is much broader than just focusing on environmental issues. Most contemporary executives know that their response to the challenges of sustainability could seriously affect the competitiveness and survival of their organisations. Despite this notion, most are failing by launching a few greening initiatives without a clear sustainability vision and plan. The sustainability discourse expanded the manner in which organisational success is measured, using values and criteria from the economic, environmental and social realms – commonly known as the triple bottom line. The idea is to balance the needs of people, the planet and the organisation’s profits to create long-term shareholder value. The concept of sustainability has suffered from a proliferation of definitions, meaning many things to different people. However, consensus is forming that sustainability refers to the process by which sound economic systems operate well within the biophysical constraints of the ecosystem to provide a good quality of life that is socially appropriate for current and future generations. Sustainability is bigger than a publicity stunt, green products or occasional acknowledgement to on-going efforts to save the planet. Although greening will be a central part of the way business is conducted, green alone is not a broad enough platform to sustain a business in the long-run. There is a need to look beyond the green aspects of sustainability and also using the social, economic and cultural aspects to build a successful and sustainable organisation. 2 This paper addresses aspects such as the sustainability paradigm, dimensions and drivers of sustainability, statistical evidence of sustainability, national framework for sustainable development in South Africa, a sustainability case example and challenges of sustainability.
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Grahamstown : average number of rooms per dwelling

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Regional setting of Grahamstown

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Research in financial services: professing a way forward

- Rootman, Chantal

Proposed bathing Pavilion for Port Alfred Municipality

Grahamstown : estimated density per acre of the white population in houses

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Property development body of knowledge (PDBoK)

- Botha, Brink

  • Authors: Botha, Brink
  • Subjects: Real estate business , Real estate , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Inaugural Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/52750 , vital:44007
  • Description: Property development constitutes one of the largest enterprises and gross domestic product contributors of the world. Property development is about the development of land or Real Estate. The business of property development boasts enormous successes over the centuries, however also incurred substantial losses. Then the Covid-19 pandemic took this sentiment to new horizons. Empirical research identified factors affecting the perceived success of property development. The property development project life cycle has been identified to an extent, however, in the international arena, there are still extensive debate in terms of what constitute the accepted norm and stages involved in the proposed property development project life cycle. During primarily the last two decades, further empirical research identified certain knowledge areas that inform the property development process and ultimate life cycle, however, a Best Practice Guide informing the Property Development Body of Knowledge (pork) does not exist. The primary objective of this on-going research project will be to deliver this knew knowledge. The secondary objective will be in the form of knowledge areas aligned to the internationally agreed property development project life cycle that will enable the practice of property development to be professionally governed in all its impact and composure.
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Innovation through education: rediscovering the lost generation

- Pieterse, Koot

  • Authors: Pieterse, Koot
  • Subjects: Business incubators , Entrepreneurship , f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20889 , vital:29411
  • Description: Innovation implies the generation as well as the practical implementation of new ideas. These ideas could appear as new product opportunities, new markets or new management systems and business schools are ideally situated to promote their exploitation and implementation. This study emphasises the need for business schools to elevate innovation to one of the core values in their mission. The need for innovation in the local business environment is explored along with reasons why these opportunities have not always been pursued with the required vigour. The results of a literature study are represented, that demonstrate what initiatives on the incorporation of innovation into their activities have been taken by a selection of business schools around the world and the study is concluded by exploring similar opportunities open to the Business School of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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Grahamstown : S.A.R. bus services operated from Grahamstown

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

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