Analysing personal financial wellness amongst employees of a South African tertiary institution

BYOD adoption concerns in the South African financial institution sector

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an emerging trend and practice that is growing in use in many organizations. There is however very limited literature on BYOD in the context of financial institutions from a developing country perspective. The dearth of such studies is problematic because financial institutions deal with a lot of sensitive and confidential information and therefore their adoption...

Old Dogs and New E-Tricks: Staff Development in a South African Tertiary Institution

This paper reports on a study in progress at RAU University (RAU) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants in the study are online lecturers at RAU who consider themselves to be experienced face-to-face instructors. Since 1998, progressive updates of WebCT have been implemented at RAU to support a growing number of instructors embracing the new multimodal approach to teaching. In many cases,...

Financial Wellness

Abdominal trauma in a semi-urban tertiary health institution

Objective: There has been a global increase in the incidence of abdominal trauma in surgical patients. We conducted this study to evaluate the pattern of abdominal injuries, patient characteristics and the management outcome in our setting.Methods: It was a descriptive (combined retrospective and prospective) study of all patients with abdominal trauma admitted and managed at Ekiti State ...

Musculoskeletal disorders amongst practising South African oral hygienists.

OBJECTIVES The study sought to determine the level of musculoskeletal disorders among working oral hygienists in South Africa and potential determinants that are associated with these disorders. METHODS Oral hygienists registered with the HPCSA were requested to complete an anonymous questionnaire. Apart from demographic information they were asked to report on any musculoskeletal symptoms ex...