Critical systematic engagements with rural development and nature conservation organizations.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Fincham, Robert John. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Parker, Benjamin Philip. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Luckett, Sidney. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-02T13:03:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-06-02T13:03:54Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2004 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This collection of papers represents the author's maturing reflection on systemic engagements with three different organizations within the latter half of the first decade in post-Apartheid South Africa. The first two papers deal with two different systemic engagements: the first with a rural community development organization in a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal south of Durban and the second with the implementation of a district health system by a provincial health authority, also in KwaZulu-Natal. The last three are concerned with the theoretical and practical aspects of a single critical systems intervention (CSI) for policy development within the KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, a parastatal nature conservation organization. The first paper, Designing a Management System for a Rural community Development Organization Using a Systemic Action Research Process describes the use of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) for the development of a Human Activity System (HAS) Model, that is, a conceptual model of purposeful human activities, to facilitate debate regarding a 'problem situation' faced by the community development organization. A Critical Systems Intervention to Improve the Implementation of a District Health System in KwaZulu-Natal is the second paper. As the title suggests, this paper describes a Critical Systems Intervention in a district health system implementation process. By using Concept Maps and Sign-Graph diagrams with SSM this paper contributes theoretically to the growing body of literature on methodological pluralism. Paper 3, Towards a critical systems approach to policy formulation in organizations contributes to the literature on organizational policy. It is noted in this paper that whilst there is a substantial body of literature on organizational strategy as well as on public policy, there is a dearth of literature on organizational policy. The thrust of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it draws a distinction and shows the relationship between organizational policy and organizational strategy. Secondly, building on this distinction, it develops a critical systems approach to policy formulation. Paper 4, Environmental Paradigms, Biodiversity Conservation and Critical Systems Thinking develops a framework of environmental paradigms which may be used for any CSI in nature management as a tool for values clarification. The collection concludes with Paper 5, A Critical Systems Intervention for Policy Development within a Nature Conservation Organization. It discusses the process undertaken in the nature conservation organization - Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife - intervention and shows how the approach to policy formulation (developed in Paper 3) and the framework for environmental paradigms (developed in Paper 4) were used in the intervention. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2984 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rural development. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Primary health care--KwaZulu-Natal. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Policy sciences--Methodology. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Biodiversity. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Theses--Environmental management. | en_US |
| dc.title | Critical systematic engagements with rural development and nature conservation organizations. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |