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Improving the management of inappropriate utilisation of information technology by university students

- Ramoshaba, Sefoko

  • Authors: Ramoshaba, Sefoko
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Information technology - Management , Information technology - Security measures , Information technology - Moral and ethical aspects , College students
  • Language: English
  • Type: Doctoral (Thesis)
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/262429 , uj:27702
  • Description: D.Litt. et Phil. , Abstract: The information technology (IT) revolution has brought about many global changes, revolutionalising the world in the way people live, learn, work and interact with one another. It has improved the conditions of living in a dramatic manner, from office paper work to computerised office space and automated manufacturing plants. The IT revolution has also brought with it ethical challenges, where human beings are tempted into using IT to commit crime and unethical behaviour. This has led to the challenges of IT ethics, and how to manage the challenges. Ethical problems related to the inappropriate utilisation of IT have been transplanted from society to the university environment. Universities are experiencing the same and/or more drastic kinds of unethical behaviour. These behaviours have been committed through the inappropriate utilisation of IT by students. The increment is because of the ever-increasing sophistication of new IT devices. This research project sought answers for the better management of inappropriate utilisation of IT by students. The current literature was assessed in order to find out how students use IT to commit unethical behaviour, and the types of IT devices students utilise to do this. Students inter alia use wristwatches, cellphones, laptops, computers, cigarette lighters, ultra-violet lights, USBs, translation software, calculators, pagers, websites, printers, scanners, portable wireless devices, photoshop, electronic pens, video cameras, portable radios, faxes and emails. Students use these devices to commit the following unethical activities, among others: online plagiarism, computer fraud, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, e-cheating, hacking, cybervandalism, distributions of viruses, flaming, cyberharrassment, pornography, sexting, hiring people online to write up academic projects on their behalf, sharing of individual academic projects against the instruction of their lecturers, online fights, theft of IT devices, damage to IT networks, piracy, and copyright infringements...
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The institutionalisation of evaluation in the Mpumalanga Provincial legislature

- Mngxaso, Monwabisi H.

  • Authors: Mngxaso, Monwabisi H.
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Mpumalanga (South Africa) - Politics and government , Mpumalanga (South Africa). Provincial Legislature , Legislators - South Africa - Mpumalanga
  • Language: English
  • Type: Masters (Thesis)
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/57375 , uj:16383
  • Description: Abstract: The demand for governments and their public sector institutions to improve their performance and demonstrate concrete results as expected by their diverse stakeholders has been increasing. The legislatures as important institutions of democracy are expected to also confront and address this increasing demand in order to improve their performance as they fulfil their constitutional mandate. In the course of programme monitoring and evaluation, the institutionalisation of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems is one of the strategies that governments in general and public sector institutions in particular seek to employ not only to improve performance but also to strengthen accountability and transparency and to promote good governance. Despite the strategic importance of M&E, there seems to be paucity of information about the nature and extent of institutionalisation of M&E at the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature (MPL). In this context, it has not been established whether the current M&E efforts at the MPL are in line with international good practice because no study was ever undertaken in this regard. The overarching objective of this study was to gain insights and understanding about institutionalisation of evaluation at the MPL in relation to what constitutes international good practices. The study has articulated and employed both the pragmatist and interpretive perspectives which have informed the mixed method research (MMR) design that has been employed in this investigation. Mainly an open-ended interview and closed–ended questionnaire were used to collect both the qualitative and quantitative data in order to answer the research questions and achieve the overarching objective of the study. The findings revealed that the MPL has essential good practice features which constitute the building blocks for cultivating and legitimising M&E practice at the legislature. However, the MPL has implemented limited M&E institutionalising components in terms of what constitutes good practice which has rendered its M&E system to be fairly functional but partially institutionalised. The insights and understanding gained through the findings were then used to articulate ten recommendations in order to advance the institutionalisation of M&E system at the MPL in line with the overarching research objective of this study. The study focused only on the MPL rather than on a sample of legislatures in South Africa. Consequently, this study cannot justifiably make broad generalisations involving the entire South African legislative sector. It is in this context that individual legislatures or interested institutions or people, are expected to carefully approach the findings and recommendations in this study in tandem with their unique institutional contexts. There is certainly a need for building and institutionalising a results-based and evidence-informed M&E systems because... , M.A. (Public Management and Governance)
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Critical assessment of South Africa’s water policy

- Maphela, Bulelwa

  • Authors: Maphela, Bulelwa
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Water resources development - Government policy - South Africa , Water-supply - South Africa - Management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Doctoral (Thesis)
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/55050 , uj:16267
  • Description: Abstract: The impact of climatic change on the availability of fresh water for human consumption has become a global phenomenon. Looming water scarcity has been projected for years ahead. Countries that are known to be semi-arid and arid, had to swiftly adapt their consumption patterns to mitigate to possible water scarcity challenges. Informed by the Water Resource Management Guidelines, SA infused the guidelines into its water management regime. This exercise coincided with the changes in the political dispensation of the country. Amongst all the policies of the previous regime, the Water Policy needed urgent attention. The previous Water Policy of 1956 was found to be woven with political motives, where ownership and access to the resource was in the hands of a few. When the African National Congress came into power in 1994, it adopted the international guidelines on water management. This free access was capped at 6kl for all South Africans for uniformity and equality in the management of the resource. The study asserted that the attitudes, perceptions and willingness to pay by the communities had an impact on the management of the resource in the townships. In an effort to highlight this supposition, a mixed housing development area was used as a focus area of study. In this study, three different households were identified. Four-roomed section and the Reconstruction Development Program houses, were identified to be mostly below the acceptable economic status. The mortgage section was found to have high levels of education with corresponding incomes. Thus the study was able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the indigent status of the household was not the determining factor in the inability of the achievements of policy objectives. All three sections did not believe in paying for water. Indigent status was found to be insignificant to the willingness to pay for water. During this period, the demand management of the resource was absent; therefore, communities adopted the attitude of a free resource. Willingness to pay by the communities was also found to be dependent on the existence of governance between the two role players in the townships. Improving governance overtime would improve willingness to pay by the households. In the policy agenda, infusing the human element may take longer than envisaged in policy goals, however the study found that it was necessary towards a sustainable usage of the resource by the... , D.Litt. et Phil. (Public Management and Governance)
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Institutionalisation of a monitoring and evaluation system for the South African Military Health Service's Project Phidisa

- Bvuma, Promise Sibusiso

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