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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 ... -
Negative publicity effects on students’ perceived image, trust, and loyalty: South African universities’ recovery perspectives.
(2021)In recent years, universities in South Africa have been subject to a significant amount of negative publicity. The two main types of negative publicity experienced by South African universities include an increase in ... -
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 ... -
Occupational challenges faced by the nurses working in public health care: the case of Chesterville Clinic.
(2021)Nurses have a significant role to play in promoting good quality health care in South Africa. Therefore, it is critical for the Department of Health to have nurses who are engaged in their work. However, given the high ... -
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 ... -
Optimising socio-economic benefits through competitive logistics systems, infrastructure and novel concepts for the Durban Aerotropolis.
(2020)This case-based research study contributes to the description and understanding of the Durban Aerotropolis strategy and intends to establish how it can be successfully applied, given the logistics and mobility dynamics in ... -
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, ... -
Pathways and barriers to inclusion: a case study of a girls' only school of industry in South Africa.
(2001)Since 1994 all education policy documents that have emerged in South Africa have stressed the principles of social justice and inclusion by foregrounding issues of equity, redress, quality education for all, equality of ... -
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 ...