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Narrowing the municipal funding gap : a metropolitan perspective in South Africa.
(2014)Metropolitan municipalities play a vital role in service delivery at grassroots level. South Africans suffered from a lack of basic municipal services during the Apartheid era. Accordingly, post-apartheid municipalities ... -
The nature and effects of micro-inequities within the workplace.
(2019)Employees are known to be assets within the workplace as they contribute to overall organisational effectiveness and productivity. When employees do not feel welcome or feel unhappy within their environment, it could lead ... -
The need and process for change from a management to a leadership culture in organisations.
(2003)Leadership and management can and should be differentiated. The differentiation gives insight in the nature of organisational practices, dynamics and cultures. By differentiating between management and leadership the need ... -
The negative impact of rural-urban migration in KwaDukuza Municipality.
(2020)The South African unemployment rate is currently at 29% (Statssa, 2019). This means that South Africa has a high rate of unemployment. Economists have indicated that of every four people, three are job seekers. The purpose ... -
New spaces for participation in South African local government.
(2008)The study is a monograph on participation in local government in South Africa. Participation is framed within the theoretical perspectives of representative democracy and its off-shoot, deliberative democracy. The research ... -
A normative model for evaluating lecturing personnel at tertiary educational institutions with special reference to the Port Elizabeth Technikon.
(1993)In this dissertation a study is undertaken of personnel evaluation of lecturing personnel at tertiary educational institutions. References are made to other tertiary educational institutions, but for reasons of confidentiality ... -
Nosocomial transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in a regional hospital
(2017)Nosocomial transmission of drug resistant tuberculosis is well-documented in South Africa. The level of risk varies by patient population and effectiveness of M.tb infection control measures. The risk is higher in places ... -
On the effects of structuring idea generation tasks and supporting consensus building in a Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making Environment.
(1999)Decision making is a process that is characterized by several activities. For a typical semi-structured to unstructured multi-criteria task, decision-makers must go through problem exploration, the so-called intelligence ... -
Optimising information sharing within the Massmart supply chain network.
(2014)The promotion-driven retail chain within the Massmart group resembles variability upstream and downstream of the supply chain. This variability may be associated with mis-alignment of supply chain activities and the in-house ... -
Organisational culture and values in the South African social security agency : a Batho Pele perspective.
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The outsourcing challenges and effectiveness of insourcing maintenance function at Eskom.
(2010)In view of the competition many organizations seek to survive by producing more, with fewer resources, in a shorter period of time (Pintelon and Parodi- Herz, 2008:21). Outsourcing maintenance of production assets over the ... -
Outsourcing or Insourcing: a case study of regional hospitals in public health within eThekwini District.
(2018)Outsourcing has been adopted by public health to improve the efficiency and quality of health care services. Essentially, outsourcing of services such as catering, believed to be a non-core function, has become vital element ... -
Participatory management by political deployees in state owned companies : a case study of Regideso, Burundi.
(2011)The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which political deployees employed participatory management in state owned companies in the Republic of Burundi. The identified state owned company was REGIDESO, ... -
Pay for Performance compensation models : assessing Service Consultant’s perceptions at Momentum Health Durban.
(2018)The modern world of work is constantly shifting and naturally so is the way in which individuals are remunerated. Performance based compensation models are rising in popularity in recent years. The aim of this study was ... -
Peacebuilding among Shona communities in transition in Zimbabwe: a participatory action research.
(2015)This study is a participatory action research (PAR) intervention that examined the contributions of informal peace committees to peacebuilding in Zimbabwe. The emergence of informal peace committees as a diverse segment ... -
Perceived effectiveness of trade unions in addressing employees’ grievances in the public sector in Swaziland.
(2018)The study examined the perceived effectiveness of trade unions in addressing employees’ grievances within the public sector in Swaziland. The study explored employees’ perceptions regarding the effectiveness of trade ... -
Perception and preparedness of stakeholders at hospitals to utilize a paperless environment.
(2010)The embracing of Health Information Technology (HIT) by hospitals is viewed as one mechanism to mitigate the ever-growing healthcare supply and demand gap, reduce medical errors, increase efficiency, improve quality of ... -
Perception of African immigrants of service quality at the Department of Home Affairs in Mthatha, Eastern Cape.
(2018)Service quality is a concept that has been around for many years. The concept of quality in the service industry is measured using five dimensions, namely; tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. ... -
The perception of university students on the diffusion of fake news on social media : a case of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
(2019)Fake news is a digital but also ethical issue, and it has been one of the challenges of the media for the past decade. Fake news is defined as news articles that are false by intention and whose goal is to mislead readers. ...