College of Business and Economics Annual Report 2017 62 1st Runner-up: Mpo Mataboye TALENT MANAGEMENT The SoE is resourced with the equivalent of 40 Senior Lecturer Units (SLUs). A SLU is the salary budget of the SoE 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, 43% represent designated groups and 38% recruited internationally. Within the SoE, women of African, Indian or Coloured origin represent 34% of all academic staff. About 62% of the SoE academic staff hold doctorates. Workload stands at 39 fulltime equivalents per SLU. While this figure seems much lower than the College average of 54, the context is that postgraduate work is more time-consuming. Undergraduate output is recorded at three graduates per Senior Lecturer Unit (College average = 14), honours and postgraduate diplomas at three graduates per Senior Lecturer Unit (College = 4), master’s at 0,65 (College average = 0,60) and doctoral output at 0,03 (College average at 0,04). Overall, postgraduate productivity requires improvement towards 2020. Three staff members have been promoted in 2017 and another three new staff members were appointed. A major focus of SoE for the next couple of years is to improve the postgraduate (especially masters and doctoral) throughput rates. Various measures have been put in place to achieve this. SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS Capacity building of staff members is a very important priority of SoE. SoE has strongly focussed on the improvement of the technical skills of staff members and the enhancement of teaching skills. A large number of staff members attended econometric and data-related workshops during the year. Teaching-related workshops and programmes were well attended by staff members. Young staff members were placed into specific research-focussed groups that enabled them to work with senior staff members in that particular area. Staff members of SoE partook in various community projects to uplift those communities. 2nd Runner-up: Biana Fisher
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