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South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23491 South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements Babb, Sarah louisesn@absa.co.za Snyman, Louise UCTD Executive ability Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Globalisation has increased the level of competition in the world economy and for South African organisations to be in a position to compete on a sustainable basis, they need competitive advantage. The art of leadership is required to unlock these advantages by understanding the new reality, new leadership roles and skills requirements. The purpose of this study is to explore the understanding of South African executive leaders in relation to the literature in order to establish whether South African executive leaders are aware of the new reality, the new role they have to play within their organisations and whether they have the skills to do so. The exploratory nature of this topic lends itself to an inductive theory building philosophy and a qualitative research method is followed to explore the topic. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews are conducted with eleven South African executives. The sample is extracted from the population by using non-probability quota, judgemental and convenience sampling techniques. An inductive analysis is performed on the data gathered in order to obtain the required results. A clear understanding of what their competitive advantages are is lacking, which in turn is limiting on the executive’s ability to extract value from these. The new roles of leadership are understood, but not mastered due to the fact that the skills required to master these roles are known to the executives but not internalised. Recommendations are made by the researcher to enable this. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:27:30Z 2010-06-19 2013-09-06T15:27:30Z 2008-04-04 2010-06-19 2010-03-25 Dissertation Snyman, L 2007, South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23491 > G10/194/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23491 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03252010-164057/ © 2007 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Executive ability South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements |
| title | South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements |
| title_full | South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements |
| title_fullStr | South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements |
| title_full_unstemmed | South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements |
| title_short | South African executive leadership an art form : skills requirements |
| title_sort | south african executive leadership an art form skills requirements |
| topic | UCTD Executive ability |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23491 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03252010-164057/ |