Doctoral Degrees (School of Public Leadership)
Recent Submissions
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Impediments to meaningful and effective public participation in local government budgeting in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Challenges facing the municipalities in the Western Cape have been identified as multifaceted impetuses that require a comprehensive action plan. Government at national, provincial and local sphere in South ...
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A performance management model for supporting improved local government service delivery : a case study of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please see full text for abstract
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The impact of emotional intelligence on public leadership performance in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The practice of public service leadership, crucial for public governance and institutional performance, is viewed as the “weakest link” in the public service system (Kramer, 2008). In pursuit of understanding ...
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An institutional capacity model of municipalities in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Local government occupies a special place in the architecture of state in South Africa and there is an increasing realisation that the performance of local government is critical in respect of poverty ...
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Closing the strategy execution gap in the public sector : a conceptual model
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The importance of strategy execution to achieve organisational objectives is increasingly recognised. However, successful execution seems to remain problematic, not only in government, but also in the ...
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Building corporate resilience : based on a case study of Spier Holding's search for a lower carbon future
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A study of the sustainability journey of Spier Holdings, a well known wine and leisure business in South Africa, offers a unique opportunity for interrogating corporate drivers for a lower carbon future. ...
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Socioeconomic implications of global oil depletion for South Africa : vulnerabilities, impacts and transition to sustainability
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Oil is the quintessential resource in the modern industrial economy. It accounts for a third of world primary energy, fuels 95% of global transport systems, sustains a highly mechanised agribusiness and ...
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Etnisiteit en groepsverteenwoordiging in die staatkunde : 'n vergelykende studie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1981-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this dissertation is the development of an operational analytical model to illustrate the possibility of successfully resolving or managing conflict in plural societies by effectively ...
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Effective decision-making within a large local authority
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1994-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Decision-making, the process of choosing between alternatives, is the single most important function within any organisation whether it be in the private or public sector. Local government is located ...
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Die bestuur van diversiteit in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisation development is an emerging behavioural science discipline. Its goals are to make organisations more effective and to develop individual potential. For this reason organisation development ...
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Aspekte van organisasie-kultuur in die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The integration of the three former defence forces, four homeland forces and the one self-defence unit into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) drastically changed the race composition of ...
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Local government decentralised reforms in South Africa : a comparative perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: All the countries in the world at one or another stage undergo reform or transformation primarily for political reasons and/or to adapt to the challenges and demands placed on the national governments ...
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Developing a performance measurement system for policing : South African Police Service
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although terms such as input, output, outcomes, productivity, quality, efficiency and effectiveness represent measures of performance, they also measure different aspects of performance. The question ...
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Managing the South African National Defence Force towards productivity : a human resource management perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The end of apartheid, April 1994 brought the dawn of a new era and the integration of the seven armed forces into the South Afiican National Defence Force. For the first time in the history of South ...
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Impact of commodity markets on economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Commodity issues have assumed renewed importance in debates about the attainment of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals for Sub-Saharan Africa and objectives of the New Partnership for Africa’s ...
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A NEPAD leadership development strategy : the SADC case
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The overall aim of this study is to shape the future of the SADC through the New Partnerships for Africa’s Development leadership development strategy (NEPAD LDS), including a social responsiveness ...
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Technology assessment of renewable energy sustainability in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technology assessment has changed in nature over the last four decades. It changed from an analytical tool for technology evaluation, which depends heavily on quantitative and qualitative modelling ...
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Establishing viable and sustainable rural economic development programmes in a competitive global economy : analysis of marula commercialisation in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The historical significance of the socio-political changes in South Africa since 1994 cannot be disputed. The challenge is to place the redress agenda within a macro-framework geared to promote competitiveness ...
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Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a popular instrument for public service delivery. It is important that public managers will be able to recognize when a PPP would be an appropriate service delivery ...
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Complexity and leadership : conceptual and competency implications
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globalisation, rapid changes in technology, and demographic trends are all important factors that contribute to conditions that require adaptive capacity in military organisations. The context of a ...
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A scorecard for monitoring and evaluation of governance of special schools in the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Conflicts and dysfunctionality in public schools is often the cause of poor school performance and learner outcomes. This often is a direct result of poor school governance. Studies have previously ...
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An analysis of the evolving military futures debate : explaining alternative military futures for the South African National Defence Force
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Twenty-first century armed forces increasingly have to operate amidst unprecedented uncertainty and complexity cascading onto the military domain. Not only are their roles and implicitly their whole ...
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Leadership and democratisation : the case of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Kim Dae-Jung in South Korea
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the late 1940s, South Africa and South Korea were ruled by authoritarian governments, which oppressed the people’s freedom and rights. The governments created the deeply divided societies that ...
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Beleidstelselanalise van militêre opleiding in die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: POLICY SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF MILITARY TRAINING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE Borders in a global economy market exist only to determine the sovereignty of nations. Modern military interventions ...
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Child poverty and the performance of the child support grant in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the cruelest legacies of the apartheid era in South Africa was that it created a situation in which a very large proportion of children in the African and Coloured populations live in households ...
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Improving the systematic evaluation of local economic development results in South African local government
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Evidence-based policy making and results-based management aim to improve the performance of organisations, policies and programmes by enabling the accurate measurement of progress and results required ...
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Restoring and holding on to beauty : the role of aesthetic relational values in sustainable development
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Unless Africans and their leaders make a concerted effort to rid themselves of the harmful legacy of colonial spirituality by adopting new motives for living, entering into new relationships with themselves ...
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Critical perspectives on post-apartheid housing praxis through the developmental statecraft looking glass
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The principal question this study aims to answer is why and how a left-of-centre government not hobbled by heavy external leverage, with developmental state precedents, potentially positive macroeconomic ...
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Integrated water demand management for local water governance
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)Please refer to full text for abstract
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Financial literacy as core competency of South African military officers : a measurement instrument
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, education and training in South Africa has experienced various changes, driven mainly by the Green Paper on Skills Development and the White Paper on Education which set objectives and ...
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