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Narrowing the municipal funding gap : a metropolitan perspective in South Africa.
(2015-10-01)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 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 ... -
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 ... -
A normative model for managing orientation procedures for effective and efficient public personnel management in post-apartheid South Africa.
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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.
(2016-01-19)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.
(2011)Abstract not available. -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Perception and preparedness of stakeholders at hospitals to utilize a paperless environment.
(2013-10-30)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 ... -
Perceptions and conceptions about e-education among learners in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2007)This research project forms part of a comprehensive coordinated project to determine whether it is feasible to introduce e-Education in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) public schools by 2013, as envisaged in the Department of Education's ... -
Perceptions and experiences of organisational misfit : a grounded theory study of South African employees.
(2013)Research into person-environment fit has focused on fit and the many positive benefits that have been associated with achieving high fit. Misfit on the other hand, has been given scant attention. To date, not much is ... -
The perceptions and mental models of teachers on corporal punishment in school.
(2008)Some of our teachers are so imbued with the idea that violence solves problems for them at school that they don't realize that there is an effective alternative discipline that is humane and violence free. They are not ... -
Perceptions of human resource information system usage for knowledge management in the context of human resource management .
(2010)21st century human resource (HR) managers face new challenges that require the management of employee resources and the management of information resources overload to support human resource management (HRM). The proposed ... -
Perceptions of informal local traders on the influence of emerging markets : Umlazi and Kwa-Mashu townships.
(2015)Mall development in South African townships has increased in recent times as large chains strive to increase their profitability. The emergence of township malls and suppliers’ expansion into the townships has the potential ... -
Perceptions of international students on the challenges of diversity management at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)Background: Between the years 2009 and 2010, an average of approximately 5 400 applications were received at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from international students (Division of Management Information, 2010). Knowledge ... -
Perceptions of knowledge transfer of foreign African doctors practicing in South African provincial hospitals.
(2012)The study examined the factors affecting the African foreign doctors' perception of knowledge transfer with special reference to South African provincial hospitals. The influence of three organisational factors (Interpersonal ... -
Perceptions of professional service staff on the effects of outsourcing of courier services : University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2015)The dynamics of clock speed, the turbulence of business environment and the challenges of globalisation have influenced firms like University of KwaZulu-Natal in making the strategic decision to outsource some of its ...