Orientation: With uncertainty increasingly defining organisational contexts, executive leaders need to develop their ‘capability for uncertainty’ – the ability to engage with uncertainty in their organisational context and to lead others, while simultaneously managing their own experience of uncertainty. However, what constitutes such a holistic ‘capability for uncertainty’ is not clear.Research purpose: The purpose was to gain an understanding of what constitutes a capability for uncertainty.Motivation for the study: Gaining an understanding of what components constitute leaders’ capability for uncertainty would provide a basis for determining what interventions would be relevant for developing leaders towards achieving such a capability.Research approach, design and method: An interpretive qualitative approach was adopted, using interpretative phenomenological analysis to gain an understanding of what capability executive leaders developed through their lived experience of uncertainty. Two purposive samples of six executive leaders from two different South African companies (a private company and a state-owned company), which had both been experiencing long-term organisational uncertainty prior to and up to the time of the study, were used. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews.Main findings: The executives all developed their capability for uncertainty through lived experiences of uncertainty, to a greater or lesser extent. Five components were identified as constituting a holistic capability for uncertainty, as follows: a sense of positive identity, an acceptance of uncertainty, effective sense-making, learning agility and relevant leadership practices during organisational uncertainty.Practical/managerial implications: Organisations need to target and design leader development interventions to specifically develop these components of a holistic capability for uncertainty in executives and leaders, enabling them to engage more effectively with uncertainty and to more positively manage their experience of uncertainty in these increasingly turbulent times.Contribution/value-add: The key contribution is the identification of five crucial components constituting a capability for uncertainty, which can be used to inform leadership development interventions designed to develop such capability in leaders.

The purpose of this study was to define the nature and work of leaders within the context of the future world of work. A leadership meta-competence model, based on levels of work theory, was developed. This model was validated by senior managers in the retail industry. Subsequently a questionnaire assessing the perceived importance of these competencies, currently and in the future, was designed and completed by just more than 100 managers from various retail industries. The questionnaire results indicated that there is a significant difference between the perceived current and future definitions of the nature and work of leaders

The career orientation of professional accountants during the early career stage. The purpose with this study was to conduct research into the career orientations of aspiring and qualified persons in the accounting profession. Schein's Career Orientation Inventory was administered to 221 respondents in the early career stage and in different phases of Involvement in the profession. Managerial skill featured as the most prominent career orientation. It was also evident that respondents who had had occupational experience measured highest on the same orientation, i.e. managerial skill, irrespective of their phase within the early career stage. Furthermore, there were indications that career orientation differentiation increased in accordance with occupational experience.<p> <strong>Opsomming</strong> <br>Die doel met hierdie studie was om die beroepsoriëntasies van aspirant en gekwalifiseerde persone in die rekenmeesterprofessie na te vors. Schein se Beroepsorientasievraelys is afgeneem op 221 proefpersone in hul vroee beroepsjare en in verskillende fases van betrokkenheid in die professie. Bestuursbedrewenheid is as die mees kenmerkende beroepsorientasie geidentifiseer. Dit het ook aan die lig gekom dat proefpersone wat oor beroepsondervinding beskik, ongeag hul fase van betrokkenheid in die vroee beroepsjare, dieselfde orientasie naamlik bestuursbedrewenheid, realiseer. Aanduidings is verder verkry dat beroepsorientasie-differensiasie na gelang van beroepsblootstelling toeneem

O Brasil não permanece indiferente diante das vítimas de deslocamentos internacionais forçados. Ante o espantoso dado aproximado de 50 milhões de pessoas deslocadas em todo o mundo, normalmente vítimas de guerras civis e de atentados às liberdades e aos direitos fundamentais da pessoa humana, o Brasil vem desenvolvendo uma política relevante na matéria. Em especial, destacam-se cinco aspectos que deveriam ser de conhecimento público, em especial dos especialistas em relações internacionais.Em primeiro lugar, o Brasil abriga a presença histórica do Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados (ACNUR) desde a década de 1970. Criado em janeiro de 1951, como um braço humanitário e social das Nações Unidas voltado para a proteção de populações atingidas pelas agruras das guerras civis e perseguições de ordem geral, o ACNUR passou a atuar no Brasil, por meio de um escritório oficial localizado na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, a partir de 1977. Naqueles anos, a preocupação incidia sobre os primeiros fluxos de refugiados, provenientes de países da América do Sul, deslocados pelas crises institucionais que afetavam os países da região. Uruguaios, argentinos, paraguaios e chilenos foram os primeiros assistidos no Brasil sob o manto da proteção do ACNUR.Nos anos mais recentes, o tema dos refugiados ganhou importância estratégica internacional. As imagens das mais de 22 milhões de pessoas que estão hoje sob a proteção do ACNUR, em grande maioria advindos de países pobres e vivendo em campos de refugiados ou acampamentos provisórios, povoam as páginas dos jornais e revistas de todo o mundo. A vontade de retorno a seus lares de maneira segura ainda parece uma possibilidade distante para a grande maioria dos refugiados.O Brasil, nesse novo contexto internacional, entrou na rota de possíveis abrigos para refugiados. A crise acelerada nas condições de vida de inúmeras populações africanas, em especial, está presente em portos e aeroportos brasileiros. Houve um aumento expressivo na solicitação do estatuto do refúgio. O ACNUR, em 1989, transferiu sua missão para Brasília, no coração do processo decisório nacional, com a finalidade de acompanhar melhor as políticas brasileiras na matéria e as respostas do governo e da sociedade civil brasileiros nessa matéria.Em segundo lugar, como um desdobramento do aspecto anteriormente referido, o Brasil fez avanços expressivos nos últimos anos no que se refere à proteção do refugiado. É o Brasil o primeiro país da região a elaborar uma legislação

<p><strong>General life values: A pilot study amongst Afrikaans speaking students.</strong> Values have a great impact on human behaviour, also within organizations. It is also well known that values are in a constant state of change. This means that organisations have to be able to adapt to changing values on both the societal and individual levels. If one were to assume that university students are the leaders of the future and that they will therefore be able to influence changes in value systems, particularly organisational values, it becomes clear that greater awareness of the value systems of this group is important if organisations are to adapt in a proactive manner. In this study the terminal and instrumental values of Afrikaans speaking students were measured by means of the questionnaire developed by Rokeach. The results show a high degree of concordance between sexes and students studying different courses on both sets of values.<p></p><p><strong>Opsomming</strong> <br>Waardes het 'n groot impak op menslike gedrag, ook binne organisasies. Dit is ook bekend dat waardes deurentyd verander. Dit beteken dat organisasies by veranderende waardes op beide die individuele en gemeenskapsvlak moet aanpas. Indien aanvaar word dat universiteitstudente die leiers van die toekoms is en dus veranderinge in waardes sal kan bemvloed, veral organisasie waardes, is dit duidelik dat insig in die waardes van hierdie groep van waarde kan wees in die pro-aktiewe aanpassing van organisasies. In hierdie studie word die terminale en instrumentele waardes van Afrikaanssprekende studente gemeet met behulp van die vraelys wat deur Rokeach ontwikkel is. Die resultate dui op 'n hoe mate van ooreenstemming tussen verskillende geslagte sowel as studente uit verskillende studierigtings op beide stelle waardes.</p>