CEOs in Africa are more confident about growth this year than their peers in the rest of the world, but those in South Africa are more concerned than global business bosses about the availability of key skills.

Social media is becoming more and more pervasive and has already been entrenched as a tool for external marketing. But what about internal communication? New research shows it might be groundbreaking there as well.

Leadership training in SA is creating a generation of black executives without empathy or humanity, says American academic Mark Rittenberg.

Generation Y and Z - young people born in the 80s and 90s - have huge potential to play a positive role in building a much-needed new business environment in South Africa, yet they make up the majority of the unemployed in the country.

Christopher Felgate is a wellness officer whose job is to take care of the health of employees at BSG. He tells Margaret Harris that wellness initiatives with incentives are the most effective.

It sometimes makes sense for companies to allow certain employees to continue working after the agreed or normal retirement age. The question is this: How does one go about terminating employment during that period?

There can’t be many HR directors who have responsibility for an organisation’s property, facilities and security functions. But then as Matt Stripe explains: "Nestlé is a very complicated business."

In a complex, uncertain world, the hiring and promotion of talent and leadership development decisions that rely on candidates' past performance are of limited use.

To Jody Foster, disruptive people in any type of organisation – from a big corporation to a major health center – can poison the atmosphere for everyone with whom they interact.

SHL recently announced the release of the first annual Talent Report, providing a worldwide view of the capability and potential of talent pools across industries, regions, and job functions.