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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"South African public service"”.
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Exploring leadership competencies of sector management service of the South African Public Service
… leadership competencies of the Senior Management Service (SMS) of the South African public service by incorporating international best practices from selected countries. The thesis focused on the challenges confronting members of the South African SMS and also on the regulatory frameworks …
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The new public management and the transformation of the South African public service : an overview
… review of the theory and practice of the New Public Management (NPM) in the public service context of a democratic South Africa. It undertakes an extensive review of the literature on NPM and explores in some detail the NPM’s origins, definitions, key characteristics, critiques and lessons …
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Affirming women in the South African public service a study of provincial government 2000 - 2007
… other things, women are fast tracked into the public service. This thesis examines the extent to which women are represented in provincial government and the possible barriers, if any, confronting them in their career advancement. A mixed-method approach incorporating both quantitative and …
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Developing a complexity leadership competency framework for the Governance and Administration Cluster of the South African Public Service
… and hybrid governance models. Consequently, public administration organisations must strengthen their adaptive and complexity capacity to deal with environmental complexity through adopting a different leadership model that is characterised by distinct but complementary leadership functions. …
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To what extent do South African public service reforms depict new public management influences : the implications for service delivery
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-108).
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Leadership perspectives on service delivery in the South African Public Service : a critical overview of the public financial management systems from 1994 to 2004
… any activities that government departments and public entities engage in. The delivery of services by the government and the reporting of any achievements are also crucial and ensure that citizens know what services the government is delivering. The challenge facing the government is whether the …
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The role of senior public servants in South Africa : lessons for the future
… of transformation on the role of the most senior public servant in South Africa, the Director General. This required an analysis of the Director General's administrative and policy roles within the political-administrative interface. The aims of the research were firstly to provide a description …
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Public Service Labour Relations: Centralised Collective Bargaining and Social dialogue in the Public Service of South Africa(1997 to 2007)
Through South African labour legislation, bargaining councils are empowered to conclude collective agreements between employers and trade unions. While bargaining councils were created for virtually every sector within the South African private sector, only one bargaining council exists for the …
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The role of training in the human resource department of the south african parliament
Training in the South African public service is a highly needed factor, especially in the process of transformation. In the "rationalisation" of the public service, training cannot be conducted in isolation. At the same time training should be seen as a process not an event. Empowering employees …
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Strategic planning for effective talent management and employee retention in the Newcastle Local Municipality
… contribution to the success and development of public sector institutions. The researcher’s interest in the study was aroused by the poor state of existing talent strategies as well as the retention strategies which have led to ineffective talent and high employee turnover. The researcher has …
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Challenges of performance management system and its impact on the improvement of productivity in the Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District
… System (PMS) has been introduced in the South African public service with the intentions of monitoring, reviewing, assessing performance, developing underperformers, and recognising and rewarding good performance. This study was undertaken as an attempt to investigate whether the PMS of …
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Integrated performance management systems and motivation in the South African public sector
Performance management processes in the South African public service are often perceived and implemented in isolation from other organisational and management policies, strategies, systems and processes. The central problem addressed in this study concerns the lack of integration of different …
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The implementation of the compulsory induction programme on the socialisation of public servants
Empirical evidence suggests that public service induction training is a significant precondition for public servants to understand their role as enablers of effective and efficient service delivery. Despite governments’ efforts to professionalise the public service through training and development, …