College of Business and Economics Annual Report 2017 53 TALENT MANAGEMENT The SCiiS is resourced with the equivalent of 39 Senior Lecturer Units (SLUs). A SLU is the salary budget of the SCiiS divided by the average salary of a Senior Lecturer in the College and provides for interpretation of productivity across the College. Of all academic staff, 36% represent designated groups and 36% are international academics. Within the SCiiS, women of African, Indian or Coloured origin represent 16% of all academic staff. About 47% of the SCiiS academic staff holds doctorates with good progress being made by lecturers in achieving their doctorates. In 2017 Dr Beate Stiehler-Mulder of the Department of Marketing Management successfully completed her PhD studies with Kungliga Tekniska högskolan – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden Workload stands at 55 full-time equivalents per SLU, which compares well to the College average of 54. 2nd International Conference of the Internet, Cyber Security and Information Systems (ICICIS, 2017) Undergraduate output is recorded at 10 graduates per Senior Lecturer Unit (College average = 14), honours and postgraduate diplomas at four graduates per Senior Lecturer Unit (College = 4), master’s at 0,21 (College average = 0,60) and doctoral output at 0,03 (College average at 0.04). Measures put in place to reduce student dropout rates and improve staff qualifications are expected to impact positively on outputs per SLU over time. SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS At the SCiiS we are committed to ensuring that through our research as well as teaching and learning we contribute to addressing developmental challenges facing South Africa and the communities around us. Our social outreach projects on transformation largely include capacity-building initiatives. Some of these include:
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