Winter Study School

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MBA students

STUDY SCHOOL: 11-15 JULY 2016

A warm welcome to the winter study school! Please take note that the winter school is

held at the Quest Conference Centre in Vanderbijlpark. Once again, we have prepared a

stimulating programme for the week ahead, and hope that you will find it most rewarding

and complementary in pursuit of management excellence. Please take note that

attendance of the study school in totality is compulsory, and attendance lists must

be completed. The study school consists of five academic building blocks. These blocks

are:

Academic lectures;

The highly-rated prestige day;

Research methodology;

Certified management skills; and

Company projects for the final-year students.

The NWU School for Business & Governance hosts a prestige day on Wednesday and

has once again secured top-notch speakers from industry. Please come and learn from

these gurus on a variety of topics on management and leadership practices in the

changing business environment. These speakers are:

Dr Johann de Jager (Specialist responsible for the Absa Visual Corporate Identity);

Dr John Purchase (CEO of Agbiz); and

Ms Mmabatho Mfikwe (Chief director: Corporate services in the Department of

Public Works, Roads and Transport)

NWU School for Business & Governance Prof CA Bisschoff

Tel (018) 299 1411

Fax (018) 299 1416

Email [email protected]

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The NWU School for Business & Governance has also invited some guest lecturers to the

study school who are willing to share their knowledge. These lectures are module specific

and comprise a number of concepts aimed at providing advanced managerial

development to not only survive in the business jungle, but to excel within the dynamic

environment of management, leadership and business. These concepts include personal

development, practical business challenges, research, skills, and also direct MBA module

tuition to enable a balanced growth in your personal and professional careers.

Regarding the class venues, please remember that the welcoming session and opening

address will be a combined session for all students in Voyager 1. For class-specific

sessions, please consult the timetable. Also note that early morning coffee, tea and

lunches will be served at the venues as per timetable.

The NWU School for Business & Governance has invited alumni, management of the

University and business leaders to join us for the business seminar. Extend your

networking opportunities and fraternise with the speakers, business leaders and alumni.

Finally, use the time to enjoy the wonderful world of management, bond with fellow

students and also relax from your everyday work stress. Should you have any requests or

problems during the study school week, do not hesitate to contact me for assistance on

the number 084 548 2256.

Sincerely yours

Prof Christo Bisschoff

Programme manager: MBA study schools

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Dr Johann I de Jager

Involved in Intergroup Relations Research Project (HSRC); Specialist responsible for the Absa Visual Corporate Identity

Johann de Jager started his career as an Afrikaans journalist (Hoofstad in Pretoria) in

1968, became sub-editor in 1969, and then the editor of a house journal (Sasol News).

In January 1973, he was appointed to lecture Practical journalism in the Department of

Perswetenskap (Journalism) at the then PU for CHE. He lectured for 12 years while

completing his BA honours, MA and DPhil degrees, was associate professor and head of

the department of Communications for four years and then went back to Communication

practice, in January 1985 because ‘he by then became a handbook-lecturer’.

During his absence from the academic world of 29+ years, he was, from 1985, involved in

the publicity for the Intergroup Relations Research Project of the Human Sciences

Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria, designated head of Public Relations at Vleissentraal

and head of image advertising and later the change of the visual corporate identity of

Volkskas to Volkskas Bank in 1988, a project with a budget of R24 million.

From June 1991, he was responsible for:

The management of the two- and three-dimensional visual identities of Allied Bank,

TrustBank, United Bank, Volkskas Bank and Bankfin until October 1997 when the

five mainframe databases were finally consolidated, and

The development, implementation (October 1998) and management of the various

Absa Group and Bank two- and three-dimensional visual corporate identities from

November 1997 as Senior Consultant: Corporate Identity until retirement in

December 2008, as well as the Barclays Bank endorsement of the Absa visual

identities from 2005.

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The largest project he was responsible for – the projected/envisioned Barclays South

Africa – had a projected cost of R1.52 billion.

As the responsible specialist for the Absa Visual Corporate Identity he was responsible for

the acceptance and the engagement of the staff of approximately 34 000 members of the

new Absa visual system, as the commitment and dedication of the staff are crucial for the

positive establishment of the new identity.

He was the co-developer of the staff engagement course, I am Absa, and I am the brand,

which was used from 1999 to 2002. The workshops started with contact staff and were

concluded with a presentation to the Absa Group’s board of directors.

He retired from the Absa Group in December 2008 and started lecturing in Corporate

communications on the Mafikeng Campus of the North-West University on 1 June 2009

where he supervised three successful PhDs in three years. At the NWU Mafikeng he was

acting director of Human Sciences for 15 months.

He retired from the NWU on 31 December 2013.

He still supervises post-graduate students at the NWU, Mafikeng Campus, and the

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and was external examiner for MA and PhD

candidates at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and University of Pretoria (UP).

He has a DPhil in Communications and also holds a BA honours degrees in Journalism

(Perswetenskap) from the then PU for CHE, Psychology from UP and Translation and

Interpreting from UJ.

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Dr John L Purchase

CEO of Agbiz

Dr John Purchase is currently CEO of the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) of South

Africa, having been appointed to the position in 2007. Prior to taking up the position with

Agbiz, he was the CEO of Grain South Africa. Dr Purchase started his professional career

as a scientist in South Africa’s Agricultural Research Council (ARC). In effect, he served

the ARC for 22 years in various research and managerial positions.

Dr Purchase was appointed to the board of the Land & Agricultural Bank of South Africa in

July 2012 and served a three-year term until July 2015. He was also appointed as council

member to the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) and currently still serves in

this capacity. From 2012 to 2015, Dr Purchase served as the chairman of the CEO Forum,

a forum of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF).

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Ms Mmabatho Mfikwe

Chief director: Corporate Services in the Department of Public Works, Roads and

Transport

Nyakallo Mmabatho Gugulethu Mfikwe studied BA in Journalism at the Rhodes University

and completed it in 1991. After that, she continued her studies at UNISA and completed a

BA honours in Communication in 2000. Key components included, among others,

Intercultural and development communication and Organisational communication and

Public relations. She did an MBA at the North-West University in 2015. She specialised in

Human resource management. Other courses and certificates obtained are Public Sector

Development and Management (UNW 1999), Development Management and Facilitation

Programme (Wits P&DM 1997), Basic Principles of Public Relations Practice (PRISA

1993), Public Relations Practice (PRISA 1994), Strategic Management Tools (USAID

1994) and Facilitation Skills (Centre for Managed Change 1996).

From 1994 to 1996 she held the position of senior administration officer and

communications officer at the office of the first North West Province Director General. In

March 1996, she was appointed in the Department of the Premier as assistant director

(Strategic management unit). From September 1998 to December 2000, Ms Mfikwe

served as Deputy director: Communication and Transformation at the Public Safety

Secretariat. She was employed by the Department of Economic Development and Tourism

as Director (administrative secretary/chief of staff) in January 2001. In August, the

Department of Transport, Roads and Community Safety appointed Ms Mfikwe as Chief

Director: Corporate Services. From May 2009 to date, she has served as Chief Director:

Corporate Services in the Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport.

Mmabatho speaks six languages, namely English, Setswana, Sesotho, isiXhosa, isiZulu

and Afrikaans.

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Ms Nicole Marriott

Sales consultant for McGraw-Hill Education

Nicole was born in Sasolburg in the Free State, but grew up in Vanderbijlpark. She

attended Pinedene Primary and then Suncrest High School. Nicole matriculated in 1993.

Her first job after high school was working for a stockbroker doing mostly administrative

work. She worked in various positions as the years progressed, while she decided what

she really wanted to focus her career on.

In the interim, she had a daughter, who is now almost 18 years old.

In 2000, she took a position in the operations department, and stayed on for 11 years,

while also studying supply chain management part-time through correspondence.

Currently, she works as a sales consultant for McGraw-Hill Education in the higher

education division and has been with McGraw-Hill for just over three years. Her territory

includes Johannesburg, Vanderbijlpark, Potchefstroom and Namibia.

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Prof Theuns Pelser

Dean and head of school for the Graduate School of Business and Leadership – UKZN

Professor Theuns Pelser was appointed at UKZN as from 1 April 2015 as the dean and

head of school for the Graduate School of Business and Leadership. Prior to his

appointment he was the director of the Graduate School of Business and Government

Leadership, North-West University, South Africa.

Before that he was the Head of Regenesys Business School (RBS) and strategy manager

at Sasol.

He holds a PhD in Strategic management from the Potchefstroom University, which he

obtained in 2001.

He currently is a visiting professor at Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business

(Namibia University of Science and Technology) and HELBUS Helsinki School of Business

(Finland).

His academic interest is strategic management, within the context of international

technology and innovation management. Prof Theuns has published 51 academic peer-

reviewed papers in the last five years and supervised 16 postgraduate dissertations/theses

to date.

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Mr Johan Els

Managing director of Sparrow Consulting; Founder and chairperson of the University of Africa and Central African Correspondence College in Lusaka, Zambia

Johannes Leon Els completed his BEng (Chemical Engineering) at the University of

Pretoria in 1981 and the MBA at the North-West University in 1997.

His career history started in May 1981 as a senior process engineer at Sasol/Natref. In

June 1986, he became the strategy manager and after that filled various other

management positions in the technical, commercial and project departments at Middelburg

Steel and Alloys/Columbus Stainless/BHP Billiton. In November 1999, he was appointed

as managing director at Heinz H Pariser International Metals and Minerals Research

(Germany). From September 2003, he was the managing director of Sparrow

Consulting/Pebble Publishing. He is also the founder and chairperson of the University of

Africa and Central African Correspondence College in Lusaka, Zambia.

Highlights of his career entail the following:

He travelled extensively, primarily to Europe and the USA, between 1992 and 2003.

Between 1992 and 1999 he was responsible for facilitating the establishment of nine major

foreign manufacturing companies in South Africa. Between 2000 and 2003, he conducted

industrial research and undertook various international assignments in the metals and

minerals industry from his base in Germany.

In the establishment of Sparrow Consulting and Pebble Publishing, he took a shoestring

company from concept to national leader in the writing and publishing of textbooks. To

date, Pebble Publishing has written and published some 150 textbooks for the South

African tertiary education market.

He established the University of Africa in September 2010 in Lusaka, Zambia. At present,

the University offers 12 graduate and post-graduate programmes and has 3 500 students.

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It has graduated close to 1 000 students to date (4 PhDs) and includes three cabinet

ministers completing their studies at the University in 2014 and 2015.

He designed and implemented a totally innovative university operating model for the

University of Africa. This includes flexible enrolment and examination systems, fee

structure, material development methodology, as well as logistics and information

technology support systems.

Throughout his career, and in many different workplace environments, he made it his

mission to optimise workplace efficiency. This was achieved primarily by addressing

structures and systems, technology utilisation and staff motivation.

Sparrow Consulting is involved in establishing systems and technical shop floor

procedures and instructions to assist and train operational staff and supervisors to improve

workplace efficiency.

A lifelong passion for education has led to the establishment of several businesses having

a training and education focus. This includes the successful establishment and operation

of Sparrow Consulting (educational consulting), Sparrow Publishing (textbook publishing),

University of Africa (Zambia), Central African Correspondence College (Zambia) and Ubi

Academy (RSA, awaiting CHE accreditation).

He is the chairperson, a non-executive director and member of the convocation of the

University of Africa based in Zambia, which currently offers 16 degree courses on a

distance learning basis.

He also acts as guest lecturer for different manufacturing, project management and

supervision courses on an ad-hoc basis. He manages several projects aimed at the

training of TVET College lecturers and examiners.

He has been a regular speaker and panel member at international metals and minerals

conferences on both academic and industrial research topics. These days, he is a regular

contributor to the annual SAQA conference addressing various education topics.

He started developing university and college textbooks in 2009 with more than 150 having

been published by Pebble Publishing to date. He has also written many technical

qualifications for different SETAs and the DHET as well as literally hundreds of training

modules since 2004.

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Mr Pieter Geldenhuys

Futurist, academic and innovation expert

Pieter Geldenhuys is a renowned futurist, academic and innovation expert. He has

a degree in Electronic Engineering, and an MBA specialising in Technology

Strategy. He is adjunct faculty at the North-West University and Cornell University,

Ithaca, New York. He was a technology strategy advisor to the CEO of Vodacom

between 2005 and 2011, and the previous vice-chair of the Innovation Focus Group

at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland.

He is the founder and director of the Institute for Technology Strategy and

Innovation, aligned with North-West University. As academic, he was honoured in

2014 with a nomination to the prestigious South African Academy of Science and

Arts.

As public speaker, he has more than 800 radio and more than 1 000 public

appearances under his belt, and has spoken to audiences in more than 20

countries.

He believes the only way to effectively predict the future, is to create it.

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Theunis Meyer

Senior subject specialist

Employed as senior subject specialist, Theunis Christoffel Meyer holds two master’s

degrees and an honours degree in Environmental sciences and management, is a

registered professional natural scientist, registered ISO 14001 lead auditor, and

experienced environmental impact assessment practitioner. He is involved in consultation

projects covering a wide spectrum of environmental and environmental-legal challenges

and in the development and delivery of SHE short training courses.

Prior to joining the CEM, he worked as nature conservation and agricultural scientist in

Namibia, the Karoo and the North West Province, where he was involved with research on

vegetation dynamics, plant-animal interactions, invader plant control and veld

rehabilitation.

During his career, he has delivered numerous papers at national and international

conferences and is regularly invited to lecture at various tertiary training institutions. He

has also published a number of scientific and semi-scientific publications, as well as

numerous popular publications.

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Dr Cobus Pienaar

Managing director: Arbinger Institute in South Africa

Dr Cobus Pienaar was born and raised in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He graduated from

the University of the Free State in 1994 and completed his postgraduate studies in 2005,

obtaining all his degrees with distinction. He is registered as an organisational psychologist

with the Health Professions Council of South Africa, and has been appointed as senior

psychologist and organisational development consultant for a number of organisations.

From 2002 to 2015, Dr Pienaar was employed as senior lecturer in the Department of

Industrial Psychology at the University of the Free State. He also chaired that department

from 2007 to 2010. He still conducts research on topics related to leadership, careers and

dysfunctional leadership and organisations, and has published in peer-reviewed academic

journals such as the South African Journal of Education, Acta Academica, South African

Journal of Psychology, Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, South African Journal of

Business Management, Southern African Business Review and South African Journal of

Industrial Psychology.

In addition, Dr Pienaar has read scientific papers at various international conferences such

as Advances in Management, the International Congress on Leadership in Post-school

Education, IPED Conference, the International Conference in Contemporary Business,

and the 6th European Conference on Leadership, Management and Governance. He is

often approached to review academic articles for scientific peer-reviewed journals.

Dr Pienaar has been representing the Arbinger Institute in South Africa as managing

director since 2008. The Institute is a world-renowned management consulting and training

firm and scholarly consortium that specialises in changing mindset. Cobus is leading the

delivery of Arbinger’s programmes and consulting services in South Africa and is often

consulted by companies in the private and public sector, focusing on the development of

leaders, teams and organisations.

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Mr Shawn Liebenberg

Statistical consultant at the North-West University, Statistical Consultation Services (SCS), Potchefstroom Campus

Mr Shawn Liebenberg studied at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus.

He completed his BSc honours degree in Statistics in 2011 and his MSc in Statistics

with distinction in 2014. His areas of focus are the advanced probability theory and

nonparametric regression methods.

Since then, he has been a statistical consultant at the North-West University, Statistical

Consultation Services (SCS), Potchefstroom Campus. His role as a consultant for the

SCS entails:

Conducting client interviews, constructing questionnaires, researching statistical

techniques, processing and analysing data, interpreting and explaining the results

obtained and presenting short courses on statistical theory and statistical software.

His programming skills include SAS, SPSS, R, Fortran, Photoshop, Latex, Statistica

and Microsoft Office.

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Mr Theo Venter

Political and policy specialist at the NWU School of Business and Governance; Special

advisor to the Vice-chancellor of the North-West University

Theo Venter is a political and policy specialist at the NWU School of Business and

Governance and special advisor to the Vice-chancellor of the North-West University on a

part-time basis. In this capacity, he advises on politics and strategy. He is also a political

commentator on South African politics in the media, especially on radio and TV. He has

been part of the SABC election teams in all elections since 1987. He consults regularly in

the business and agricultural sectors on the state of politics in South Africa and has been

member of the BMI Strategic Forum since 1990 with a focus on the building industry. He

was appointed in May 2015 as chairman of the Governance and Risk Management

Committee of the NW Department of Rural, Environmental and Agricultural Development.

He teaches a course in the formulation of strategy at the Post-Graduate Diploma

programme of the Business School. His main research interests are scenario

methodology, political change and policy development.

Theo Venter was born on 27 November 1955 in Modjadjiskloof (former Duiwelskloof),

Limpopo. He grew up in Vanderbijlpark and matriculated in 1973 from the Transvalia High

School. He then studied at the Potchefstroom University and obtained a master’s degree

in Political science in 1982. From September 1982 to January 1984, he studied in the USA

as a Fulbright Scholar at the Nelson Rockefeller School for Public Management at State

University of New York in Albany, NY obtaining a second master’s degree in Comparative

politics. Theo Venter has received acknowledgement as one of the most quoted staff

members at the NWU for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Theo Venter is an outdoors person who loves nature, photography and wildlife and he is

actively involved in the organised hunting fraternity. He is married to Thildé and they have

four children.

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Prof Waldo Krugell

Director of the School of Economics at the North-West University

Prof Waldo Krugell is the director of the School of Economics at the North-West

University’s Potchefstroom Campus.

He holds a PhD on the topic of the economic geography of South Africa. His current

research focuses on development issues from a micro-economic perspective. He is also

part of the NWU’s Policy Uncertainty Index team.

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MBA STUDY SCHOOL VENUES: 11-15 JULY 2016

Opening session: VOYAGER 1 HALL (08:00)

MONDAY 11 JULY

08:00 Opening welcome Voyager 1

08:30-22:00 MBA 1 Lecture room

08:30-16:15 MBA 2 Auditorium 1

08:30-13:00 MBA 3 Venue A, E, F & conference room no 3

08:30-22:00 PG.DIP Auditorium 2

Early morning coffee 07:00-08:00 Journey

Tea break 10:00-10:30 Journey

Lunch 13:00-14:00 Voyager 2

Break 17:00-18:00

TUESDAY: 12 JULY

08:00-22:00

10:30-13:00

MBA 1

MBA 1

Lecture room

Lecture room

08:00-16:15

14:00-16:15

MBA 2

MBA 3

Auditorium 1

MBA 2 & 3 together

08:00-13:00

14:00-16:15

MBA 3

Together with MBA 2

Venue A, E, F & conference room no 3

Auditorium 1

08:00-22:00

PG.DIP

Auditorium 2




Break 17:00-18:00

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WEDNESDAY: 13 JULY PRESTIGE BUSINESS SEMINAR

08:00-13:00 MBA 1 & 2 & 3 & PG.DIP

Lectures and Guest speakers

VOYAGER 1

14:00-22:00 MBA 1 Lecture room


14:00-16:15 MBA 3 Meetings between students and supervisors



Tea-break 10:00-10:30 Journey


Break 17:00-18:00

THURSDAY: 14 JULY

08:00-17:00

18:00-22:00

MBA 1

Together with PG. Dip

Lecture room

Lecture room


08:00-16:15 MBA 3 Voyager 1

Strategic company project

Student presentations

08:00-16:15

18:00-22:00

PG. DIP

Together with MBA 1

Auditorium 2

Lecture room




Break 17:00-18:00

FRIDAY: 15 JULY

08:00-22:00

10:30-13:00

MBA 1 together with PG. Dip

MBA 1together with PG. Dip

Lecture room

Lecture room


08:00-16:15 MBA 3 Venue A



Brunch 10:00-10:30 Voyager 2

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PRESTIGE DAY:

WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016

VENUE: VOYAGER 1

THE CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

07:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE

08:00 WORD OF WELCOME & INTRODUCTION OF

SPEAKERS:

Prof Tommy du Plessis

08:45-10:00 Dr Johan de Jager

Marketing and branding in the changing business environment

10:00-10:30 REFRESHMENTS

10:30-11:45 Dr John Purchase

Managing agriculture in the changing business environment

11:45-13:00 Ms Mmabatho Mfikwe

Diversity in the changing business environment

13:00 LUNCH

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WINTER STUDY SCHOOL - B: MBA I: 11 - 15 JULY 2016

Monday: 11 July Tuesday: 12 July Wednesday: 13 July Thursday: 14 July Friday: 15 July 08:00

Opening and welcome: Acting director: NWU School of Business & Governance,

Prof TE du Plessis

Managerial accounting

(1)

Guest lecturer: Nicole Marriott

Prof Anet Smit

PRESTIGE BUSINESS

SEMINAR: The changing business

environment

8:30 Welcome

08:40 Introduction of speakers

08:45 Speaker 1: Dr Johan de Jager

Marketing: Branding

TEA

10:30 Speaker 2: Dr John Purchase

Agriculture

11:45: Speaker 3 Ms Mmabatho Mfikwe

Diversity

Understanding environmental legal liability: A management

perspective

Guest lecturer: Mr Theunis Meyer

Prof Anet Smit

Human resource

management (1)

Dr Marita Heyns

08:30 Technology management Introduction

Dr Piet Pretorius

10:00 Tea Tea Tea Brunch 10:30

Technology management

(1)

Dr Piet Pretorius

Managerial accounting

(2)

Prof Anet Smit

Research methodology

(2)

Prof Leon Beer

Human resource

management (2)

Dr Marita Heyns

13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 14:00 17:00

Research Methodology

(1)

Prof Leon de Beer

INTERNATIONAL

BUSINESS

Prof Theuns Pelser

Workshop

e-COMMERCE


Lecture

Research methodology

(3)

Prof Leon de Beer

Technology management

(2)

Dr Piet Pretorius

Supper Supper Supper Supper 18:00 22:00

ACCOUNTING

Mr Martin Botha

Workshop

DOING BUSINESS IN

AFRICA

Mr Johan Els

Workshop

e-COMMERCE


Workshop

Human resource management skill Dr Cobus Pienaar

The influence of executive

mind-sets on organisational

behaviour and business

performance

Workshop

Evaluation of school,

subjects and presenters & holistic integration of

whole week

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STUDY SCHOOL NO. 4: MBA II: 11 July to 15 July 2016 Monday: 11 July Tuesday: 12 July Wednesday: 13 July Thursday: 14 July Friday: 15 July

08:00 08:30

Opening and welcome: Acting director: NWU School of Business & Governance,

Prof TE du Plessis

(b) Research methodology (1)

Prof Leon de Beer

PRESTIGE BUSINESS

SEMINAR: The changing business

environment

8:30 Welcome


08:45 Speaker 1: Dr Johan de Jager

Marketing: Branding TEA


Agriculture 11:45: Speaker 3

Ms Mmabatho Mfikwe Diversity

(a) Change management

(2)

Prof Leon Jackson

Change management

Prof Leon Jackson

10:00

(a) Financial management (1)

Prof Ines Nel

Tea Tea Tea Brunch

10:30 11:45


Prof Ines Nel


Prof Leon de Beer

(a) Financial Management (3)

Prof Ines Nel

Entrepreneurship

Prof Stephan van der Merwe

13:00

(a) Entrepreneurship (1)



Dr Leon de Beer

Financial management

Prof Ines Nel

Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

14:00 16:15

(a) Entrepreneurship (2)


(b) Research workshop

Quantitative research & questionnaire design

Auditorium 2 Mr Shawn Liebenberg &

Prof Christoff Botha

Change management

(1)

Prof Leon Jackson


A case study

by a company representative

(a) Evaluation of school, subjects

and presenters & holistic integration of whole week

Prof I Nel

SYMBOL KEY: (a) = Module bridging and supporting; (b) = Research development; (c) = Personal development (d) = Basic skills; (e) = Practical business challenges (f) = Strategic thinking development

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STUDY SCHOOL NO. 6: MBA III: 11 July to 15 July 2016

Monday: 11 July Tuesday: 12 July Wednesday: 13 July Thursday: 14 July Friday: 15 July 08:00 08:30

Opening and welcome: Acting director: NWU School of Business &

Governance, Prof TE du Plessis


Student presentations (1) &

consultation with mentors

PRESTIGE BUSINESS SEMINAR:

The changing business environment

8:30 Welcome

08:40

Introduction of speakers 08:45 Speaker 1:

Dr Johan de Jager Marketing: Branding

TEA


Agriculture


Diversity


Student presentations (2)

Skills workshop

DETERMINING POLITICAL

RISKS & CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Mr Theo Venter

09.00 10:00


Student presentations (1) & consultation with mentors






Tea Tea Tea Brunch

10:30 11:30 12:00 13:00








Skills workshop

POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY

INDEX

Prof Waldo Krugell








Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

14:00 16:15

(b) Research progress

meeting & article writing

Study leaders

(b) Research workshop

Quantitative research & questionnaire design

Auditorium 2

Mr Shawn Liebenberg &

Prof Christoff Botha

Dissertations:

Progress meetings between students and supervisors by

previous appointment. Outside appointment slot,

work on dissertation in library



(a)

Evaluation of school, subjects and presenters &

holistic integration of whole week

SYMBOL KEY: (a) = Module bridging and supporting; (b) = Research development; (c) = Personal development (d) = Basic skills; (e) = Practical business challenges (f) = Strategic thinking development

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WINTER STUDY SCHOOL - B: PGDM: 11-15 JULY 2016

Monday: 11 July Tuesday: 12 July Wednesday: 13 July Thursday: 14 July Friday: 15 July 08:00

Opening and welcome:

Acting director: NWU School for Business & Governance

Prof TE du Plessis

Marketing management

(Dr H Lotz)

PRESTIGE BUSINESS SEMINAR:

The changing business

environment 8:30 Welcome


08:45 Speaker 1: Johan de Jager

Marketing: Branding

TEA

10:30 Speaker 2: John Purchase

Agriculture


Diversity

Strategic management

(Mr Theo Venter)

Human resource

management (1)

(Dr Marita Heyns) 09:30 Strategic Management

(Mr Theo Venter)

10:00 Tea Tea Tea Brunch 10:30


(Mr Theo Venter)


(Dr H Lotz)

Strategic Management

(Mr Theo Venter)

Human resource

management (2)

(Dr Marita Heyns)

13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Question and answer session (Voluntary session for PGDM students that consider MBA

studies next year)

(Mr Johan Jordaan)

14:00 16:15


(Mr Theo Venter)


(Dr H Lotz)


(Dr H Lotz)


(Dr H Lotz)

Supper Supper Supper Supper 16:45 22:00

Group 1: SimVenture

Group 2: SimVenture

Group 3: SimVenture

Human resource management skill

Kobus Pienaar The influence of executive

mind-sets on organisational behaviour and business

performance

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MENU

LUNCH MONDAY 11 July 2016

Curried coconut chicken

Basmati rice

Coleslaw

Sweet baby carrots

Juice

Brandy chocolate mousse

LUNCH TUESDAY 12 July 2016

Deep-fried hake

Chips

Creamed spinach

Juice

Sago pudding

PRESTIGE DAY WEDNESDAY 13 July 2016

Hearty beef soup with crostini

Topside with Pineapple

Chicken Breast with spinach & Feta

Savoury rice

Crispy potato wedges

Pumpkin with caramel sauce

Boerboontjies

Juice

Malva pudding with custard

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LUNCH THURSDAY 14 July 2016

Chicken schnitzel with cheese/mushroom sauce

Mash potatoes

Greek salad

Juice

Berry and cream cheese parfait

BRUNCH FRIDAY 15 July 2016

Coffee, tea & juice

Eggs

Bacon

Grilled mushrooms with sweet chilli

Hash browns

Cheese griller

Cheese omelette

Fruit platter

Fruit yogurt

Flapjacks with cream, syrup and jam

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