Program | AAE Summer and Winter Schools

Week 1

Sunday, September 15

Monday, September 16

arrival of Wits student and staff
9:00 am: city rally and campus tour
14:00 pm: official welcoming by Vice – Rector of TUC, Dean of Faculty and Head of the International office
16:00 pm: round of introduction and Students expectations

Tuesday, September 17

9:00 am: keynote lecture by Prof. Friedrich SCHNEIDER (University of Linz) “Formal and informal Economies in a globalized world”
1:30 pm: course project by Andrea FRIED and Andreas TAFFERTSHOFER (TUC)
6:00 pm: get together barbecue at “Windkanal”

Wednesday, September 18

9:00 am: course project
1:30 pm: lecture by Prof. Rainhart LANG (TUC) “What means global leadership?”
3:15 pm: student presentations
Maja KUKO and Nancy GRÜNER “The impact of national culture on organizational culture in South Africa and Germany” (TUC)
Phangisa MATSEBULA (Wits) “A mixed methods analysis of the purpose and writing of graduate training programs in a multinational in South Africa”
Guy WILDING (Wits) “Leadership and its effects on creativity and intrinsic motivation”

Thursday, September 19

9:00 am: lecture by Dr. Michael SAMUEL (Wits)
student presentations
Peace AKURE (Wits) “Strategic planning and firm performance”
Keletso LETSHOO (Wits) “The relationship between local networks and students´ academic performance”
Eleanor Meda CHIPETA (Wits) “Entrepreneurship – and creativity”
1:30 pm: student presentations
Anika LOTH and Christin KRASULSKY (TUC) “The changing understanding of informality concepts”
2:45 pm: course project
6:00 pm: cooking event at “CdK”

Friday, September 20

9:00 am: seminar by Taahir VAJETH (UKZN)
10:45 am: student presentations
Lungelo MSOMI (UKZN) “Informal economy – the south African public sector perspective”
Kanyisa Clive BUXEKA (UKZN) “Diversity in the workplace – a look at gender and culture”
1:15 pm: departure for Berlin

Saturday, September 21

Sunday, September 22

Monday, September 23

9:00 am: lecture by Prof. Henry WISSINK (UKZN)
10:45 am: student presentations
Marianne LISCHKA “How are formal and inforaml criteria related in the selection of personnel?” (TUC)
Beatrice NNAMBOOZE (UKZN) “The role of HRM departments in relation to informal expectations in an organization”
1:30 pm: seminar by Michaela WIEANDT-LEDEBUR “Formal processes and informal Networks – recruiting practices of multinational companies”
3:15 pm: student presentation
Janette Kleeberg and Juliane Klot (TUC) “Which qualification/competencies lead to a job application and which cultural differences of formal and informal do exist for this evaluation”
Asaad MANJOO (UKZN) “Entrepreneurship, innovation and global leadership”
6:00 pm: course project

Tuesday, September 24

7:30 am: departure at the hostel to Dresden Hellerau
9:30 am: site visit at Hellerau “Realizing a cooperative principle – the Garden City Movement”
1:00 pm: site visit of Saxonian Parliament Dresden “Beyond standing orders – informal intercourse of established political parties with the rightwing party NPD”
sightseeing

Wednesday, September 25

9:00 am: student presentations
Chesarae Kris PILLAY (UKZN) “Entrepreneurship and innovation in formal and informal economies and global leadership”
Chiara PARTAB (UKZN) “Charismatic leaders are valued in innovation research and related to champions or promoters of the innovation process”
James MHLOPHE (Wits) “Evaluating perceptions on the impact of strike action on collective bargaining – a case of lonmin platinum mine in Marikana”
Chrisbel NCUBE (Wits) “Evaluating the impact of employee motivation on job satisfaction – a case study of the city of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality”
Thato PHIRI (Wits) “The effectiveness of flexible working hours on talent attraction and retention, and gender differences”
2:00 pm: site visit of KOMSA AG at Hartmannsdorf, an European ICT distributor and service company “Informal accounting aspects”
6:15 pm: group sports course – climbing at “OnSide”

Thursday, September 26

9:00 am: student presentations
Jörg MÜLLER (TUC) “Creativity in a bureaucratic environment – informal processes as assumption for product innovations in banks”
Rethabile TSEKEDI (UKZN) “Using Hofstede´s national culture model to explain unresolvable discrepencies in organizations”
10:00 am: seminar by Prof. Silke HÜSING (TUC) “Behavioral aspects in taxation”
2:30 pm: lecture by Sascha BERGER (GL Group) and Prof. Friedrich THIEßEN (TUC) “The financial service sector and the relevance of informal and interpersonal coordination”
7:30 pm: farewell Dinner at “Ausgleich”

Friday, September 27

Saturday, September 28