Abstract
M.A. (Labour Relations)
Never before has South Africa undergone as many changes as is currently the case. With
the abolition of apartheid, the looming prospect of affirmative action legislation and the
need to foster a positive economic growth rate, South African human resource managers
are faced with unprecendented challenges.
The biggest of these challenges is the effective management of human resources in a
diverse organisational environment, which has, until recently focussed almost exclusively
on the development of white employees. In order to increase the competitiveness of South
African organisations and to generate income for the economy, human resource
management policies and systems have to be adapted. These adaptions should focus on
the needs of black employees, especially in the area of organisational culture, which was
traditionally based exclusively on the values of white management.
In view of the above it is the goal of this study to create a system of value management to
integrate the traditional cultural values of employees with the core organisational values
of a specific hotel complex.
The study is a combined literature study and an empirical enquiry. In the empirical enquiry
the core organisational values of the hotel complex are investigated, in support of the
hypothesis that South African human resource management policies are not sufficiently
cognisant of the traditional values of employees. Subjects such as the nature of traditional
Batswana cultural values and a value management model for the integration of
organisational and cultural values will furthermore be addressed in this study.