Background — Jung's theory of psychological types and the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) continue to gain popularity in social and behavioural sciences. The MBTI was developed to measure people's personality preferences. Objectives — To compare the personality preferences of pharmacy students and lecturers at a tertiary education institution and to determine if personality preferences are related to academic performance. Method — A survey design was used. Setting — The study population included undergraduate and master's students and lecturers of a pharmacy school at a university. Key findings — The MBTI instrument was completed by 603 out of 686 undergraduates (87.9 per cent), all master's students and all 35 lecturers. The results showed that pharmacy students and lecturers preferred sensing and judgment. It appeared that students' preferences for extraversion and perception were related to lower academic performance and slower advancement through the pharmacy course. Conclusion — Pharmaceutical care requires understanding of the preferences of self and others. Pharmacy students and lecturers need to know their own and others' MBTI preferences, and to develop skills in the opposite or “shadow” preferences.
The priority of the National Health Sys tem in South Africa is primary health care (PHC). The approach involves a health system led by PHC services and includes personal and curative services for acute minor ailments delivered by PHC nurses. The nurses are also re sponsible for the treatment of these ail ments with essential drugs according to protocols as proposed in the Essen tial Drugs List. A before-after experi mental research design was used to evaluate the effect of a competencybased p rim a ry care d ru g th e ra p y (PCDT) training program m e fo r PHC nurses in the treatment of acute minor ailments. An experimental group (n=35) and control group (n=31) consisting of registered nurses undergoing training in PHC at Gold Fields N ursing C ollege were random ly selected. The results showed a significant increase in pre scribing outcomes and medicine utilisa tion.
Despite the importance and requirement of integrated reporting on human capital (HC), research indicates a lack of reporting frameworks and adequate disclosure in organization reports. Thus, a unique research opportunity is created for researchers to determine what is being presented in reports and how it correlates with human resource management. This article investigates HC reporting practices and proposes a risk reporting framework in support of corporate governance. A qualitative method utilizing qualitative document analysis was followed to analyze a purposive sample (n = 39) of Johannesburg Stock Exchange top 40 listed companies’ annual integrated reports of 2020. Overall, companies followed a widely accepted risk management approach, with inconsistencies in the phases and methods of reporting the risk management phases directed at HC. The magnitude of the risk to the companies is also not understood. The most commonly reported HC risks were employee growth and development, diversity and inclusion, career paths, and employee turnover and turnover intention. Employee work-related well-being was largely neglected. An interesting finding is that the reported risks were metrics-deprived. Current HC practices are backward-looking instead of forward-looking, and they are fragmented. Therefore, an HC reporting framework is suggested for future research that addresses the gaps in integrated reports.
Education is high on the agenda of national priorities in South Africa. The changing health care environment in South Africa presents various opportunities and threats to the pharmacy student and his or her training institution. Although a new learner‐centred education paradigm is needed to ensure the quality of education, it seems that training institutions are not yet ready to implement such a paradigm. In South Africa, little research has been carried out regarding the facilitation of professional and personal growth as experienced by the student. Twenty‐six students at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education were selected randomly from a population comprising the 104 fourth year pharmacy students, after stratifying the population in terms of sex and academic performance. A qualitative measuring instrument, based on the phenomenological paradigm, was used to determine students' perceptions of the education and practice of pharmacy. Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify and interpret the research data. The students in this study felt that problems were experienced with some subjects, curriculum overload was experienced, subjects were not practically orientated, and some important topics (eg, people skills, and cultural aspects) were not included in the curriculum. Sex and academic performance influenced students' experience of some aspects of the contents of the pharmacy degree course.
Changes that impact on organisations require of managers to accept responsibility for their self-development to remain effective. The aim of this research was to evaluate a self-development programme for managers in a corporate pharmacy group. A two-group true experimental design with pre-, post, and post-post testing was used. A total of 35 managers were randomly divided into an experimental (n = 18) and control group (n = 17). The following measuring instruments were used for the evaluation of the programme: The Personal Orientation Inventory, the Generalised Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale, the COPE-Questionnaire and a knowledge test. The results showed that participants showed higher Synergy and Feeling reflection and greater self-efficacy following the self-development programme.
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