Inter- and transdisciplinarity is an essential research approach to address complex sustainability problems from a "science with socieity" perspective instead of the traditional approach of "science for society". We ...
Rakepa, Thethiwe T.Uys, Frederik M.(The African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2013-09)
The primary aim of the Employee Health and Wellness Programme (EHWP) is to make a positive contribution towards maximum employee productivitiy and effectiveness in the workplace. Various organisations have implemented the ...
The research on organisation performance management (OPM) in municipalities in South Africa was undertaken for the purpose of developing a perspective on the importance of its function and to argue for its inclusion in the ...
Conflicts and dis-functionality in public schools is frequently the root of poor school performance and learner outcomes. This often is a direct result of poor school governance. Studies have previously identified a ...
The upsurge in the number of public protests in most South African municipalities, including the City of Cape Town, continues unabated. While public protest is a demographic right, provided for in the Constitution (1996), ...
Muller, Kobus(The African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2013-06)
To cope with the increasing complexities of environmental challenges, innovative
models of governance that are capable of greater fl exibility, speed and adaptability
have emerged. Following international trends, new ...
South Africa boasts one of the world's richest and most diverse natural landscapes and is world-renowned for its biodiversity. The Cape Floristic Region, particularly, is the world's sixth and smallest floral kingdom and ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Performance management entails processes and systems that ensure that organisational activities are geared to promote the achievement of organisational goals. Management of performance is one of the crucial ...
Van Der Berg-Ross, Ashlene(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the perceptions of the staff of the Department of Local Government in the Western Cape (WC) regarding workforce diversity as part of diversity management. A literature review is ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis reports on an evaluative study of the sustainability of housing development by the City of Cape Town with the Witsand, Atlantis, housing project as case study to empirically measure such ...
Engelbrecht, Maria Magdalena(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Municipalities are vulnerable to a potential regime change every five years due to municipal elections. These elections leave a municipality susceptible to the instituting of a new political leadership ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The relevance of employment equity has been widely debated. This study is of the view that affirmative action is the core factor in realising compliance to and implementation of employment equity. The ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The community development workers’ programme (CDWP) is a strategic policy
intervention by government to address challenges of service delivery to
communities. The purpose of the CDWP is to facilitate ...
Nyar, AnnsillaMusango, Josephine Kaviti(Science and Engineering Publishing Company (SEP), 2013-06)
The article draws on a specific slice of data about gender-based violence from a recent Quality of Life (QoL) survey conducted amongst 16,729 respondents in Gauteng. While gender-based violence comes in multiple forms, the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Decentralisation is a growing phenomenon worldwide. However, the detail of its
implementation determines whether desired objectives are achieved or not. The thesis
extensively interrogates this concept ...
Swilling, Mark(Health and Medical Publications Group (HMPG), 2012-03)
In 1987 the World Commission on
Environment and Development published
Our Common Future. This report
attempted to reconcile the ecological ‘limits
to growth’, articulated by the northern
green movement since the early ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid towards the notion of corporate sustainability, which has variously been defined as meaning the incorporation of social, environmental, economic, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research study was undertaken to explore one of the most significant plans in local government and is aimed at guiding future development within municipal areas. It seeks to evaluate the credibility ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sector Policing is understood to be a relatively new community-based policing approach that finds its initial mandate in the National Instruction 3 of 2009, of the South African Police Service (SAPS). ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is a rising groundswell of citizens globally questioning the equity, integrity and sustainability of the philosophies, values and institutions inherited from the 20th century. The continuum of civil ...