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Wie Featured Person Of The Month Highlights (Katina Michael), Keyana Tenant, Katina Michael
Wie Featured Person Of The Month Highlights (Katina Michael), Keyana Tenant, Katina Michael
Professor Katina Michael
The WIE Featured Person of the Month is Katina Michael, editor-in-chief of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. After working at OTIS Elevator Company and Andersen Consulting, Katina was offered and exciting graduate engineering position at Nortel in 1996; and her career has been fast track from there. Read Katina’s story on Page 7.
Qualitative Analysis Of Indicators Of Successful Women Mentorship In The South African Construction Industry, Ntombekhaya Rose Anne Yokwana, Ruben Ndihokubwayo, Abimbola Olukemi Windapo
Qualitative Analysis Of Indicators Of Successful Women Mentorship In The South African Construction Industry, Ntombekhaya Rose Anne Yokwana, Ruben Ndihokubwayo, Abimbola Olukemi Windapo
Ruben Ndihokubwayo
Women have a limited advancement in the construction industry profession due to lack mentorship mechanism. As a remedy, mentorship has been used as a tool to advance women in their careers. Previous research has shown that the successful mentorship of women was insufficient. The objective of this research is to examine the indicators of successful mentorship of women; namely, performance, promotion, entrepreneurial skills and retention. Data was gathered by means of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. Purposive sampling was used to select female mentees who have graduated in construction courses. The data were collected in the Western Cape Province in South …