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Ms Nosiphiwe Mgudlwa

Ms Nosiphiwe Mgudlwa

DESIGNATION	Lecturer
QUALIFICATIONS	MTech Business Administration
PORTFOLIO	I am a Master of Business Administration alumni at the Central University of Technology, Free State which I graduated in 2017. I first completed a National diploma in Office Management and Technology with Cum-Laude at the Central University of Technology, Free State in 2013. And continued my studies at the same University where I studied and completed my BTech in Office Management and Technology with Cum-Laude in 2014 and Post Graduate Certificate in Education in 2015. I have been part of the Business Support Studies Department at the Central University of Technology since 2015, I first started as a part-time lecturer in Office Management and Technology in 2015 to 2016. In 2017 I was appointed as a lecturer in the department. My research interests lay in finance, entrepreneurship especially its application in small businesses, as well as educational technology. The title of my Master’s thesis was “The influence of private and public finance on the performance of SMMEs in the Free State: A case of Afro hair salons in Mangaung Metropolitan Area”. I am currently furthering my studies in Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in management Sciences (Entrepreneurship).
AREAS OF EXPERTISE	Business Administration
PUBLICATIONS	Rambe, P., Mpiti, N. & Khaola, P. 2022. Technology acquisition and the hair salon performance: The explanatory roles of human resources practices. SA Journal of Huma Resource Management: 1-12. Madichie, N.O., Mpiti, N., & Rambe, P. 2019. Impact assessment of funding on technology acquisition by small businesses: A case study of hair salons in a South African municipality. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 13(1/2): 145-166. Rambe, P. & Mpiti, N. 2017. The Influence of Private and Public Finance, Organisational and Environmental Variables on the Performance of Beauty Salons in the Free State, South Africa: A Theoretical Perspective. International Business & Economics Research Journals.
PRESENTED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS	Mpiti, N. & Rambe, P. 2017. Impact of Public Funding On SMMEs’ Acquisition of Technology: A Hair Salon Business Perspective. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Entrepreneurship Development [ICED]. Bloemfontein, South Africa: 4-7 April 2017. Mpiti, N. & Rambe P. 2016. The influence of public finance on the performance of SMMEs in the Free State: A case of Afro hair salons in Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Southern African Institute of Management Scientists. Pretoria: University of Pretoria: 436-449.
EXTERNAL PROFILE	LinkedIn ResearchGate

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Ms Nosiphiwe Mgudlwa
Tel: +27 (0)51 507 4070
nmpiti@cut.ac.za