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Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23685 Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa Sutherland, Margie upetd@up.ac.za Sithole, Jabulani Jerry UCTD Labour market Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Black engineers are a scarce and critical resource in South African industries. The objective of this research was to explore the career cognitions of black engineering in South Africa with a view to understand their decision making patterns in terms of their careers. Understanding these patterns could enhance the success of organizations in recruiting, training and retaining these engineers. Six propositions were developed. Thirty five black engineers were interviewed either face-to-face at various places such as restaurants, their offices, homes, etc or due to distance constraints some were done by telephone. A semi-structured interview guideline was used. Each engineer provided data on all the questions. The data was then mapped to specific propositions. Various descriptive statistical techniques were used to collate and analyze the data. A model, based on the findings, was designed for the purpose of summarizing the findings. The model (Figure 4) illustrates the key findings relating to what factors the organizations should concentrate on when formulating their recruitment and retention strategies. These are factors relating to the questions used to address the 6 propositions. Although the model only highlights the key findings, this research identified additional findings that have improved the understanding of the career cognitions of black engineers in SA. The details are discussed in the research report. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:44:23Z 2010-07-02 2013-09-06T15:44:23Z 2007-04-05 2010-07-02 2010-04-01 Dissertation Sithole, JJ 2006, Career cognitions of Black engineers in South Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23685 > G10/271/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23685 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04012010-122348/ © 2006 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 Labour market Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa |
| title | Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa |
| title_full | Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa |
| title_short | Career cognitions of black engineers in South Africa |
| title_sort | career cognitions of black engineers in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Labour market |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23685 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04012010-122348/ |