• The effect of combining reliability, availability and maintainability modelling and stochastic simulation modelling on production efficiency 

  Van der Weshuizen, F.J. (North-West University, 2019)

  Many world leaders in manufacturing are currently designing future facilities at various global locations. A Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) study is an important part of the basic engineering process. ...
• Predicting business failure in a South African business bank 

  Motale, N.L. (North-West University, 2019)

  The aim of the study is to understand which factors cause business failure in a South African business bank and how can business banks successfully retain business banking customers with a probability of business failure ...
• The digital divide: investigating the perspectives of students in Swaziland 

  Kiefer, T.M. (North-West University, 2019)

  The digital divide has been a factor of technology that negatively affects the people of developing countries, such as Swaziland. While technology has advanced rise in the first world, developing countries are slowly ...
• Linguistiese eienskappe en konvensionalisering in Zefrikaans op die WatKykJy?-blog: ’n korpuslinguistiese ondersoek 

  Van der Walt, A. (North-West University, 2019)

  Previous research on Afrikaans on the internet has mainly focused on older Web 1.0 web applications and not so much on the newer Web 2.0 web applications. Zefrikaans, a variety of Afrikaans, on the internet has been ...
• Die erosie van kiesersvertroue as faktor in die kontemporêre Suid-Afrikaanse demokrasie (1994-2017)/ The erosion of voter trust as a factor in the contemporary South African democracy (1994-2017) 

  Rieder, E. (North-West University, 2019)

  Internationally, voter trust in political systems is recognized as key to successful democratic governance and the effective co-ordination of collective interaction between government and civil society. For the purpose of ...
• Verb complementation patternsin Black South African English 

  Partridge, M. (North-West University, 2019)

  In this thesis, some of the features pertaining to the verb-complementational patterns in the writing of experienced Black South African English (BSAE) speakers were investigated. These features are the ditransitive ...
• A qualitative exploration of flourishing among nurses working in palliative care 

  Motloung, K.G. (North-West University, 2019)

  This mini-dissertation presents the findings of a study that qualitatively explored flourishing, as conceptualised in the model proposed by Keyes (2013), among a sample of nurses working in palliative care in South Africa. ...
• FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY: delibrate decisions by parents to educate their children via Afrikaans despite access to English in the family 

  Mostert, S.J. (North-West University, 2019)

  Despite an expressed awareness of the hegemony and high status of English in the world today, there are English dominant and English-Afrikaans families within the Vaal Triangle Region, who opt for Afrikaans as the language ...
• Examining the retention policy of law enforcement: South African Police Service Zamdela cluster, Free State Province 

  Molupe, S.D. (North-West University, 2019)

  This research examines the retention policy of the law enforcement: South African Police Service (SAPS) at Zamdela Cluster in the Free State Province. In order to make this examination specific attention is placed on ...
• Implementing multilingualism in the Emfuleni Local Municipality for communication purposes with the residents of Bophelong Township 

  Mafisa, L.C. (North-West University, 2019)

  This study is an investigation into the use of different languages between local government and the community. The purpose is to examine the implementation of multilingualism by Emfuleni Local Administration and the benefits ...
• Evaluation of participatory governance for enhancing quality of local governments: a case of six selected local governments in Central Uganda 

  Galukande, M.P.K. (North-West University, 2019)

  Public participation in government programmes has gained prominence, the world over as it enhances democratisation good governance and quality of governments. Involving the public in government activities is associated ...
• Measuring the cognitive load induced by subtitled audiovisual texts in an educational context 

  Matthew, G.D. (North-West University, 2019)

  Audiovisual aids are nowadays commonly utilised in classroom environments where lecturers are able to supplement verbal instruction with pictures or videos to enhance learning. To make these resources more accessible, ...
• Guided imagery, music and well-being: a systematic literature review 

  Jerling, P.A. (North-West University, 2019)

  Background: Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a type of psychodynamic therapy using music to explore the psyche of the client for growth and transformation. It has been used in multiple contexts. It could thus be seen as ...
• An investigation of the school organisational climates of well-performing, previously disadvantaged secondary schools 

  Mofokeng, S.K. (North-West University, 2019)

  This study set out to investigate the nature of the organisational climates of well-performing, previously disadvantaged secondary schools. These schools were studied because, despite their 'disadvantagedness’, they ...
• An analysis of monetary policy and its effect on inflation and economic growth in South Africa 

  Van Wyngaard, D. (North-West University, 2019)

  Emerging market economies, such as South Africa, frequently struggle to maintain a stable and economically viable inflation rate due to economic factors of a cost-push and structural nature. These factors not only influence ...
• An investigation of the formulation of a regional tourism competitiveness index 

  Van der Schyff, T. (North-West University, 2019)

  The aim of this study was to investigate the determinants of tourism destination competitiveness in order to develop an index that could empirically measure tourism competitiveness in a region where the tourism sector has ...
• Analysing risk tolerance during the investor lifecycle 

  Van den Bergh, A. (North-West University, 2019)

  Analysing risk tolerance during the investor lifecycle is important to provide financial planners, financial institutions and individual investors with a framework to facilitate the recognition and implementation of suitable ...
• Antecedents of smartphone purchasing behaviour amongst South African Generation Y students 

  Thebyane, L.O. (North-West University, 2019)

  Mobile phones have been around for years, with rapid developments leading to the current generation of smartphones. Smartphones have been the latest technological addition to our daily lives. Several studies have proven a ...
• Authentic leadership, fun at work, work engagement and perceived work performance in a chemical organisation 

  Snygans, C. (North-West University, 2019)

  The current volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world of work requires renewed approaches to leadership and attaining employee outcomes. The chemical organisation where this research was conducted had a strong ...
• The relationship between income inequality, economic growth and poverty in South Africa 

  Ramudzuli, M. (North-West University, 2019)

  Since gaining political liberation, the South African government has developed growth-focused policies, with the aim of reducing income inequality and poverty alleviation. However, given all that has been achieved, South ...

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