- Title
- Determining the essential traits for successful retail pharmacists in the Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage metropole
- Creator
- Melamed, Graham Morrison
- Subject
- Retail trade -- Port Elizabeth -- South Africa
- Subject
- Pharmacists -- South Africa
- Subject
- Pharmacy management
- Date Issued
- 2000
- Date
- 2000
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:10831
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/22
- Identifier
- Retail trade -- Port Elizabeth -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Pharmacists -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Pharmacy management
- Description
- The research problem addressed in this study was to determine whether successful retail pharmacists exhibited specific traits. To achieve this objective a theoretical schedule of traits was developed, using relevant literature in which traits of entrepreneurs are described. The theoretical list consisted of the possession of the following traits: The need to achieve; Confidence in their abilities; The successful management of risk; Creativity and the possession of vision; The tendency/ability to view changes as opportunities; Internal locus of control; Leadership; High level of motivation; Tenacity; Communication skills. Each trait of the schedule was analysed using the literature identified during the literature study. The theoretical list was then used to develop a questionnaire to test the degree to which retail pharmacists in the Greater Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage Metropole concur. The empirical results obtained indicate a strong concurrence with the theoretical list of traits of successful retail pharmacists that was developed in the study. This resulted in the theoretical schedule being confirmed and accepted as a list of traits possessed by successful retail pharmacists.
- Format
- ix, 123 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Port Elizabeth Technikon
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management, Business Administration
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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