At a recent board meeting of The South African Board of People Practices (SABPP) it was decided to elevate the role of their Ethics Committee, chaired by Christine Botha, to board level, given the importance of ethical matters in accordance with the King III Code of Governance for South Africa.

Christine’s appointment to the board was announced by SABPP chair, Elizabeth Dhlamini-Khumalo, at the launch of Ethics in HR management – A guide for HR professionals and line managers, compiled by Christine and the Ethics Committee.

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Business Resource Development (BRD), in association with ChequedAfrica, took part in the annual HRD Expo held at the Sandton Convention Centre during October 2011.

ChequedAfrica, distributor of the US-based Chequed.com web-based recruitment solution, is a wholly black-owned business that helps your company to hire the right people and to increase your quality and business results by using two separate modules to filter candidates based on these three critical questions:

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If the majority of staff in a single department is near or at retirement age, you are facing a dilemma. This is exactly what happened at Phalaborwa Mining Company's secretarial department. Most of their executive secretaries had, or would soon reach retirement age and the knowledge and experience gap between senior and junior secretaries was just too vast to ensure a smooth hand-over and transition.

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Companies often do not tap into the huge opportunities of tender business purely because they lack the internal resources or know-how to seize this market.

BRD recently appointed Marinda Botha who has vast experience in the tender business and have successfully managed a tender department turning over tens of millions annually.

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