2011-NMMU-Research-Report - Research Management - Nelson ...

He attained his NRF rating, and full professorship. He is thankful to the
Dean of the Faculty “for giving him wings to fly”. He has collaborated
with researchers from Minnesota State University in the USA and
the University of Technology in New Zealand. He will be undertaking
further collaborative work with universities in San Diego and Berkeley.
For future research, he wants to expand his work on construction
logistics, improve research outputs, and see growth in postdoctoral
research student numbers. His passion is action research to resolve
problems. One of the vexing challenges is to help SMME’s manage
cash flow - not mixing personal money, with business money.
Prof Shakantu values working with managers from Eskom and the
Coega Development Corporation.
Individual and Organisational
Performance
Prof Cecil Arnolds
Prof Cecil Arnolds’ main research thrust is leadership and improving
the performance of people and organisations. Looking ahead, he
would like to undertake more research on improving leadership in
Africa. He is currently supervising two Doctoral students.
His Doctoral student, Dr Alice Nyambura Koigi, was nominated to the
government committee on review of state corporations in Kenya, as
a result of her DBA study on Kenyan public enterprises. Prof Arnolds
mostly collaborates with fellow staff members and students.
As Research Director of the NMMU
Business School, his immediate and future
goal is to increase the research output of
the Business School through the effective
management of MBA treatises, DBA theses
and staff research.
Research Chairs
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Among national and international collaborators he notes Prof
Christo Boshoff (Stellenbosch University), Regina Stofile (Walter
Sisulu University) and Dr Oren Dayan (University of the Witwatersrand).
He has also written conference papers and journal articles with
Prof Bruce Klemz (St Cloud State University, USA).
As Research Director of the NMMU Business School, his immediate
and future goal is to increase the research output of the Business
School through the effective management of MBA treatises, DBA
theses and staff research.
These are important research outputs in order to achieve the
following, among others: making a contribution to the business
development and management education in our region, country
and the world at large through cutting-edge and relevant research;
building the research image and stature of the Business School;
achieving international accreditation for the Business School and
its academic programmes.
He serves on the peer-review boards of the following journals: SA
Labour Relations Journal; Management Dynamics; Journal of African
Business and Journal of Leadership and Development. He is a regular
reviewer of papers for the SAIMS and IBC conferences as well as
peer-reviewer for the NRF.
Research chairs provide a pivotal leadership link to the research
teams across the broad spectrum of research endeavours; whether it
is breakthrough research in HIV and AIDS within the higher education
sector, or advances in automotive engineering, and international
exposure-leadership and direction giving, the chairs prove crucial.
Collaboration , engagement , remaining focused, encouragement and
fostering the conducive research climate are cues set by the chairs.
Additionally, the tangled skein that is mathematics education in
South Africa - hitherto seemingly refractory to modulation - has
received considerable attention and promising results. It is beginning
to emerge, showing a turning of the tide for the better in mathematics
education and benchmarked against international best practice, and
“next practice”.
HIV and AIDS Education
Research Chair
The HIV and AIDS Education Research Chair, an initiative of the
Faculty of Education, aims to promote research and engagement
within educational settings in general and within poor communities
in particular.