Department of Business Management

Prof Tersia Botha

College of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Management Sciences
Department: Business Management
Associate Professor
Tel: 012 429 4764
E-mail: brevit@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • DCom: Business Management (Unisa)
  • MCom: Business Business Management (Northwest University)
  • HonsBCom Business Management (Northwest University)
  • BCom: Mathematical Sciences (Northwest University)

Currently teaching

  • Strategy Implementation and Control (MNG3702) – Primary lecturer
  • Leadership (MNL2601) – Primary lecturer
  • Business Management – by Portfolio (MNB2601) – Primary lecturer

Fields of academic interests

  • Leadership
  • Finance and Investment
  • Strategy
  • Project Management

Books

Contributions to prescribed books

1994

  • General Management (edited by J.Kroon and published by Kagiso)
  • Algemene Bestuur (edited by J.Kroon and published by Kagiso)

2002 - 2004

  • Management Principles (edited by PJ Smit and GJ de J Cronjé and published by Juta), 2nd and 3rd editions

2002

  • Workbook to Accompany Management Principles (edited by PJ Smit and published by Juta)

 2002

  • Guidelines for Passing General Management (by M Vrba and T Brevis and published by new Africa Book)

 2007

  • Management Principles: A contemporary edition for Africa (edited by PJ Smit, GJ de J Cronjé, T Brevis and MJ Vrba), Published by Juta
  • Basics of Management, Red Pepper publishers, (edited by T Brevis).
  • Management Principles:  A contemporary edition for the South African Police Service (by T Brevis and MJ Vrba and published by Juta Publishers)
  • Introduction to Business Management (edited by GS du Toit, BJ Erasmus and JW Strydom, published by Oxford)

 2010,  2015

  • Introduction to Business Management (edited by GS du Toit, BJ Erasmus and JW Strydom, published by Oxford)

 2008,  2015

  • Business Management: A contemporary approach (edited by Cecile Nieuwenhuizen and Dirk Rossouw) published by Juta

 2014

  • Contemporary Management Prinicples. (edited by T Brevis & MJ Vrba) published by Juta

 2015

  • Practising strategy. (edited by P Venter), published by Juta.

 2016

  • Corporate citizenship. (edited by T Botha) Oxford University Press 2016

 2017

  • Leadership. 2017. Oxford University Press. 2017.
  • Business management – by portfolio. Juta. 2017.

Contributions to books for the subject specialist

2004

  • The European Union and South Africa (edited by Dani Venter and Ernst Neuland, published by Richard Havenga and Associates)

2012

  • Developing student graduateness and employability (edited by M Coetzee, J Botha, N Eccles, N Holthausen & H Nienaber) published by Knowres Publishing Pty Ltd

Journal articles

Articles in accredited journals

1999

The identification of risk factors in capital markets with the application for the South African Capital Market.  Risk research group, University of Stockholm:  Accepted papers of risk management in business.

T Botha

2000

A model for implementing a market timing strategy with the application for the South African capital market.   African Journal of Applied Business and Entrepreneurship.

T Botha

2000

The theoretical compatibility of the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory with a market timing strategy.  The current state of business disciplines, 3(1): 30 - 40.

T Botha

2002

The current state of the APT.  2002.  International Quarterly Journal of Finance, 2(1-4):119-129.

T Botha

2005

Aspects of the working life of woman in the nursing profession in South Africa: survey results.  Curationis. 28(2): 51-60.

T Botha

2013

Developing measures for evaluation of information flow efficiency in sypply chains.

JA Badenhorst-Weiss, C Maurer, T Botha

Journal of Transport and Supply Management 7(1): 1-13

2014

Does information and communication technologies contribute to organisation performance? Evidence from Nigerian Universities.

AO Binuyo & T Botha

Problems and Perspectives in Management 12(1): 1-13

Articles in non-accredited journals

1992

Die verbruikersvoorkeure en bestedingspatrone van blanke en swart huishoudings in Lichtenburg en omgewing.  Research report presented to the South African Chamber of Business.

2000

The unemployment situation today and the role of entrepreneurship. The Hatfield Times, 4(12).

2008

Published 12 (twelve) artciles in Management Today.

Paper presentations

1999

  • The identification of risk factors on the JSE.  Eleventh annual conference of the Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch.
  • The identification of risk factors in capital markets with the application for the South African Capital Market. Third international conference on risk behaviour and risk management, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Marketing timing in an APT framework on the JSE.   Southern Africa Finance Association conference, Cape Town.

2000

  • A model for implementing a market timing strategy with the application for the South African capital market.  Society for the Advancement of Management, 2000 International Management Conference, St Augustine, Florida, USA.
  • The unemployment situation today.  Hatfield Rotary Club, Pretoria.

2003

  • The current state of the APT. Southern Africa Finance Association conference, Cape Town.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • SAIMS member
  • 2017 CEMS award for excellence in teaching and learning