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Verband tussen selfagting en bestuursdoeltreffendheid

- Heydenrych, Charl Martin

Value-in-use sustainability factor as a driver for asset management of road transport infrastructure

- Okoro, Chioma S., Musonda, Innocent, Agumba, J.N.

  • Authors: Okoro, Chioma S. , Musonda, Innocent , Agumba, J.N.
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Maintenance , Management , Roads
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/278526 , uj:29891 , Citation: Okoro, C.S., Musonda, I. & Agumba, J.N. 2018. Value-in-use sustainability factor as a driver for asset management of road transport infrastructure.
  • Description: Abstract: Infrastructure is critical in supporting economic security and societal wellbeing. A sound road network, for instance, is an essential part of any country’s socio-economic fabric. However, the development of sustainable road infrastructure has been largely driven by environmental requirements as well as economic necessity. The experiences and satisfaction of users and the consequent value ascribed to the usage of road infrastructure have not been accorded reasonable attention. The current study examines the concept of value attributable to road infrastructure through its usage. A review of related literature was conducted using articles from journals, conference proceedings and from databases including Google, Taylor and Francis, ASCE Library, and Science Direct. Synthesis was done using thematic analysis. The study found that value is attributable to the experience of users and this depends on the condition of roads. Hence, maintenance of roads is paramount to sustain value. A conceptual model for value-in-use sustainability of roads was developed. The study recommends that more attention should be given to the experience of users while making use of the roads, as opposed to the monetary value of the roads only. Moreover, consideration of users’ experience will invariably drive demand for travel and bring about increased monetary returns. Therefore, the study highlights the import of the value-in-use concept, and creates more awareness about the conditions that invariably contribute to this value and thus transport managers and policy makers need prioritise asset maintenance and management even during planning.
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The state of communication between management levels in a municipality

- Ramodike-Thovhakale, Mankwana, Thomas, Peta

The role of mental models in enhancing effective leadership behaviour

- Johnson, Andrew Joseph

  • Authors: Johnson, Andrew Joseph
  • Date: 2013-05-01
  • Subjects: Leadership , Organizational change , Management , Executive ability
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:7504 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8361
  • Description: Ph.D. (Industrial Psychology) , As a key on-going concern for modern organisations, effective leadership is the focus of this study. Effective leadership is probably the primary factor in how well organisations deal with on-going change. This creates successful organisational cultures that are conducive to employee engagement in order to achieve outcomes of great customer service, which in turn will have desired business results. Leadership effectiveness is defined as the extent to which a leader achieves the consequences intended. In other words, that which I as a leader envisaged as an outcome of my actions has been achieved. In reality, one finds big mismatches between what leaders intend and the outcomes of their actions. This has perplexed me, even in cases of well-meaning leaders who did aspire to making themselves and their organisations more effective. This ineffectiveness has remained, notwithstanding a myriad of leadership advice on what constitutes “good” leadership, and how to implement such advice. The advice and its implementation have a poor record. At a very minimum, this advice fails because it is not actionable, and simply represents that which somebody else espouses, but cannot enact. These mismatches between what leaders say and what they actually do in practice lead to leaders being ineffective. The study endeavours to assist the executives who participated in this study in becoming aware of the root causes of this ineffectiveness. In particular, this study proposes a theory of action (Action Science) approach to explain why there is a gap between the espoused values of leaders and their actions. A theory of action asserts that human action is not accidental, it is deliberately planned, i.e., all human beings have a particular picture, model or belief of how to view the world in their minds, and go about executing a particular task within the constraints of this model.
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The experience of work circumstances and stress: a profile of flight engineers in a labour dispute.

- Visser, D., Van Staden, F.

  • Authors: Visser, D. , Van Staden, F.
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: Flight engineers , Management , Organisational effectivenes
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5700 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2947
  • Description: Items from standardized tests as well as structured and semi-structured questionnaires were used to compile a profile of flight engineers involved in a labour dispute. Pertinent views of spouses were also measured. The subjects were found to be committed to their careers and identified with the goals of the company. However, the possibility of redundance was related to distrust in management, depression, anxiety, psychosomatic stress symptoms, and lowered experience of general well-being, strained family life and impaired relations with their spouses. The findings provoke concern about the possible effects on in-flight safety and organizational effectiveness.
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The effective and efficient management school fees : implications for the provision of quality education

- Mestry, Raj

  • Authors: Mestry, Raj
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Budgets , Class size , Management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/463937 , uj:41422 , Citation: Mestry, R. 2020. The effective and efficient management school fees : implications for the provision of quality education.
  • Description: Abstract: The Amended National Norms and Standards for School Funding (ANNSSF) policy of 2006 introduced a funding model to address equity in public schooling. Schools are ranked into one of five quintiles of which quintile 1 represents the poorest schools and quintile 5 the most affluent. The ANNSSF policy proposes that the state provide more funding for recurrent resources to poorer schools (quintiles 1, 2 and 3) than to quintiles 4 and 5 schools. Since affluent schools receive reduced state funding, school governing bodies (SGBs) are obliged to supplement state funding if they wish to continue providing quality education and improving learner achievement. Although intensive fundraising initiatives and sponsorships are viable solutions, the declining South African economy has prompted corporates to apply austerity measures such as limiting sponsorships to schools. Thus, SGBs are compelled to charge parents school fees as a means of supplementing state subsidies. In the study reported on here, we used qualitative research with an interpretivist paradigm to explore how SGBs manage school fees to sustain the provision of quality education. The findings reveal that, if school fees are effectively and efficiently managed, SGBs can continue employing additional staff above the post provisioning norms, reduce class sizes and procure state-of-the-art resources, resulting in high learner achievement.
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The contribution of emotional leadership to personal and professional effectiveness of managers in the corporate environment

- Dobie, Susara Gertruida

  • Authors: Dobie, Susara Gertruida
  • Date: 2012-02-06
  • Subjects: Leadership , Emotional maturity , Self-perception , Management
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:2020 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4372
  • Description: M.Phil. , The major socio-political, technical and global changes in the world have placed increased demands on managers in the corporate environment to develop people orientated skills. In this study emotional leadership was offered as a possible solution to this problem. This essay researched the problem from a personal and professional leadership perspective with the aim to: • investigate the nature of emotional leadership; • investigate the role and contribution of emotional leadership in the corporate workplace; and • identify ways in which managers can apply emotional leadership in the workplace to enhance their effectiveness as managers. In chapter two a word and concept analysis was done and it was found that emotional leadership is the ability to think logically with emotion in four areas: to perceive emotion; to integrate it in thought; to understand it; and to manage it. This ability begins with the self and evolves to include others. Emotional leadership implies to be aware of the messages emotions are conveying, and to manage them effectively, instead of being controlled by emotions. Furthermore it was found that emotional leadership is an ability consisting of hierarchical building blocks with every level bringing together and building on the capabilities of all the preceding ones. In order of hierarchical importance, emotional leadership can be interpreted as: • self-awareness or the ability to monitor the self, observe self in action, and to influence personal actions; • the ability to manage own emotions to personal benefit; • the ability to read, recognise, and discern the emotions of others, and to respond appropriately; and • the ability to assist others to manage their emotions and to respond effectively; It was also found that emotional leadership is not the sole predictor of workplace success. There is, however, agreement and evidence to conclude that emotional leadership can assist with workplace effectiveness and can be effectively used to improve individual, as well as organisational performance. There is also widespread agreement that with the correct training and experiences, managers in the corporate environment can improve their knowledge on emotions and how to manage it effectively, and thus enhance personal effectiveness. It is thus recommended that organisations, in developing people skills, should ensure that an effective balance exists between emotional leadership training and functional skills training. The training should focus on the lymbic system, which facilitates effective emotional leadership development. To ensure holistic training of managers, the training should include all aspects of personal development, as well as interpersonal effectiveness.
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Refocusing the statutory audit approach in line with the modern management approach.

- Cornelissen, Arnold

  • Authors: Cornelissen, Arnold
  • Date: 2012-08-17
  • Subjects: Controllership , Management , Auditing
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:2679 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6121
  • Description: M.Comm. , The main purpose or primary objective of this study is to develop an audit approach model by analysing the changes in management practices since the start of the development of the basic modern audit approach. These changes in management practice will challenge the basic assumptions in the present audit approach. Finally, the changed basic assumptions will form the building blocks of the new audit approach model. The secondary purpose is to place the principles of control as it is expected of management, into perspective against those prevalent 30 years ago. study the external audit product in terms of input and deliverables. open the debate between business and external auditors on the "control expectancy gap".
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Purchasing and inventory management in a homoeopathic practice

- Lessing, Anna Christina

  • Authors: Lessing, Anna Christina
  • Date: 2014-02-05
  • Subjects: Homeopathy , Management
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:8059 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8990
  • Description: M.Dip.Tech. , Due to the fact that the homoeopathic practice is both a medical service and. a small retail business, the homoeopath has to manage both these aspects well to ensure a' successful practice. Some homoeopathic students are of the opinion that at the end of their formal education at the Technikon, they do not have sufficient training in business matters, to be able to manage a practice efficiently. Unfortunately, no literature is available that cover the management of the homoeopathic practice, especially to assist a newly qualified or new practitioner in this task. Apart from this, the available literature on management is very broad and relates to many aspects of different types of businesses. Management of the homoeopathic practice is therefore a suitable topic for research. A dissertation of this kind is limited in' respect of time and space and would not allow a detailed study of all the management issues discussed in management literature. The objective of this study is therefore narrowed to research only two of these aspects, namely purchasing and inventory management. The study highlights the role and importance of each of the mentioned aspects, states their objectives and includes a discussion of the processes involved with the operation and management of these aspects. All examples and applications throughout the study are made with direct relation to the homoeopathic practice. At the end of this study a short summary of the results that were obtained through the study is given. A model is also compiled as a guide to practitioners in the management of the purchasing and inventories aspects of their practices.
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Leadership competencies for managing diversity

- Visagie, Jan, Linde, Herman, Havenga, Werner

  • Authors: Visagie, Jan , Linde, Herman , Havenga, Werner
  • Date: 2011
  • Subjects: Management , Symbolic interactionism , Diversity management , Leadership style , Cronbach alpha values
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5838 , ISSN 1854-6935 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7868
  • Description: The new understanding of diversity involves more than increasing the number of different identity groups on the payroll. An important proposal is that the experience of diversity in an organisation results from pervasive styles of management. This article dealt with the specific paradigms of diversity management and leadership style theory used to address the research problem in the empirical study, namely ‘Is diversity management experience related to leadership styles or competencies?’ The models of diversity and inclusion indicators are used to examine the experience of diversitymanagement. The population of this study into the experience of diversity management is two thousand six hundred and sixty nine (2669) respondents. Leadership styles were obtained from four hundred and forty (440) leaders. The Cronbach alpha values were determined in order to indicate internal validity and reliability.
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Leadership challenges associated with the management of Generation Y employees : a proposed theoretical model

- Hewitt, L. M. M., Ukpere, Wilfred I.

  • Authors: Hewitt, L. M. M. , Ukpere, Wilfred I.
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: Management , Leadership , Generation Y , Gen-Yers , Motivation , Entrepreneurial orientation
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5861 , ISSN 1993-8233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7958
  • Description: This paper acknowledges that Generation Y (Gen-Yers), who have grown up in a world of convenience and easy access to information, are more complex to lead and to understand than generations before them. Gen-Yers have entered the labour market at a time when the current labour force is aging in the world and in South Africa. Gen-Yers are working with forty to sixty-year-olds and in some cases supervising employees old enough to be their parents. If unhappy with work circumstances Gen-Yers change careers fast, thus creating frustration for employers struggling to retain and recruit talented high-performers. According to the report for the Future of Small Business Management (2007) issued by the Institute for the Future (IFTF) based in California which has forecasted emerging trends affecting the global marketplace for 40 years, Gen-Yers, will emerge as the most entrepreneurial generation ever in the next decade. These highly independent individuals will rather be small business owners or freelancers and will choose not to work for large corporations. What are the leadership challenges facing South African companies when they engage with Gen-Yers? Firstly, this paper explores the concept Gen-Yers, as discussed in the theory. Secondly the paper further explores possible conflicting areas between current leadership practices and Gen-Yers. The paper concludes by supporting the value that Gen-Yers can bring to companies and suggests some practices that can be adopted by leadership to engage and motivate them and at the same time ensure that their companies stay ahead of competitors by keeping Gen-Yers motivated to stay in their employment. A theoretical model is suggested for testing Gen-Yers tenure of employment relationship.
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Engineering management: the system-wide optimization of organizations

- Paddy, Ricardo J.

  • Authors: Paddy, Ricardo J.
  • Date: 2010-03-25T06:45:00Z
  • Subjects: Engineering management , System theory , Organization , Management
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:6702 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3104
  • Description: M.Ing. , Broadly speaking, the world in which we live exhibits complex interactions of multivariate and multidimensional parameters that are implemented by organizations in a global organizational space. Within this space exists numerous organizations in various disciplines and with various objectives, save the common objective of survival. These organizations compete in the environment created by this space, consuming energy, labour and raw materials from the environment and producing energy, finished products and waste back into the environment. The optimization of the operation, structure and existence of each organization in organizational space allows for a structured approach to symbiotic survival and the common achievement of a multitude of organizational objectives; providing for the avoidance of the depletion or extinction of resources, materials and energies within the space. If the world as we know it holds organizational space as one of its facets, then the global system is at the mercy of the operations of each organization, amongst others. The world then contains the embodiment of each system in some or other dimension. It allows for the training of the mind of the set of human systems to seek out that which allows for the progression of the common interest of the global system and thus the survival of each system it contains, ultimately leading to its own survival. Engineering management allows for the formalization of a relationship between two disciplines that can greatly impact the operation of the global system. It is not true that this is the most important of all disciplines; but what can be said to be true is that successful completion of the objectives of each discipline allows for the achievement of the overall system objectives. Together with all other disciplines, engineering management calls for both the consideration of organizational space as a whole and the consideration of each organization within the space. The consideration of all organizations as an open, selfcontained system allows for the satisfaction of the latter consideration by finding the solution to the question: “If I was a system, how would I want to be controlled and optimized?” An organizational system contains a set of components, inputs, energies, processes and outputs in one or other formation. Probably one of the most important elements of the component set is the set of human beings – a component which exhibits nonlinear and time variant response characteristics. The successful modeling and optimization of a system as a whole requires the modeling of each component and process, and that which poses the greatest difficulty is the human, perhaps because the one responsible for the modeling is itself a component of the same set. Viewed in light of the greater system, the author is simply a member of the component set of an academic organization interacting within the global organizational space, and this is the accumulation of the research that I respectfully present.
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Energy potential of food waste generated by a middle class neigbourhood in Nigeria through anaerobic digestion

- Kukoyi, T. O., Muzenda, E., Mbohwa, Charles

Effective facilities management of residential properties : a literature review

- Okoro, C.S., Musonda, I.

  • Authors: Okoro, C.S. , Musonda, I.
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Facilities , Management , Occupants
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/217119 , uj:21600 , Citation: Okoro, C.S. & Musonda, I. 2016. Effective facilities management of residential properties : a literature review
  • Description: Abstract: It is pertinent that buildings are livable, safe and productive. However, buildings, through occupancy, are subjected to degradation which poses unique challenges with regard to the security, health and productivity of the occupants; thus, impacting on the immediate environment and economy at large. The paper presents a review of barriers to effective maintenance of residential building facilities. Findings revealed that poor or non-existent pre-construction facility management provisions, financial constraints, lack of government support and late implementation of facilities management, hinder regular and efficient management of dwellings. Other barriers identified are the utilisation of non-professional facility managers and poor administration of a service charge account. The study provides evidence for professionals in the real estate sector to take necessary pre-emptive actions against mismanagement of residential buildings and facilities so as to prevent degradation.
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Die verwantskap tussen topbestuurwaardes en organisasiekultuur

- Dorfling, Petrus Johannes Jacobus

  • Authors: Dorfling, Petrus Johannes Jacobus
  • Date: 2015-09-01
  • Subjects: Organizational behavior , Management , Corporate culture
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:13995 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14369
  • Description: M.Com. , Organisation culture is defined as the consistent pattern of assumption. values and philosophies developed by the members of an organisation in order to cope with the organisation's particular problems of existence. These assumptions, values and philosophies provide direction to the organisation in the form of a strategy or mission and also serve to integrate the organisation's internal designs and behaviors into consistent pattern (roles and activities of managers and employees, style of business, managerial style, structure, systems and procedures, rewards, status, punishments, criteria for selection and behavioral norms) ...
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Context and strategy : managing Sanlam for and in change, 1945-2013

- Adri, Drotskie, Verhoef, Grietjie

A theoretical perspective on the difference between leadership and management

- Liphadzi, M., Aigbavboa, C. O., Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku

A conceptual model for communication management for successful project delivery in Swaziland construction industry

- Mavuso, Nokulunga, Agumba, Justus N.

  • Authors: Mavuso, Nokulunga , Agumba, Justus N.
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Communication , Construction , Factors , Management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/92751 , uj:20266 , Citation: Mavuso N. & Agumba, J.N. 2016. A conceptual model for communication management for successful project delivery in Swaziland construction industry.
  • Description: Abstract: This paper presents a literature discourseof existing literature on communication management to identify the variables that influence project success. Furthermore, the study proposes a conceptual model. The reviewed Iiteraturespanned a periodof nineyears from 2004 toJune 2013.Asystematics earch ingooglewas used. Fifteen articles were obtainedfrom the database.The articles were tabulated ina matrixto identify the core variables relevant to the study using content analysis.Seven communication management var iables were identified that are perceived to influence project success.These were: technology and systems, communication skills or competence,communications plan,teamwork & partnering,organizational structure,stakeholders'frame of references, and project briefing. Furthermore,a hypothesized model was proposed. The analysis is based on literature review only, hence a limitation in the study.The paper has identified critical success factors specific to communication management that influence project success. The study has further proposed a hypothesized conceptual model that is viewed as a panacea to improve communication and ultimately project success in Swaziland constructionindustry.
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A comparative investigation into the management style and culture of a 2nd wave organisation and a 4th wave organisation

- Carneiro, H.

  • Authors: Carneiro, H.
  • Date: 2010-10-04T08:36:24Z
  • Subjects: Organizational change , Management , Industrial management
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:6917 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3428
  • Description: M.Comm. , The aim of this research is to determine the difference between Ericsson South Africa and Ericsson Sweden in terms of wave management, leadership and management style, culture and change management. The research proposes to determine what behaviours are exhibited in Ericsson South Africa versus the behaviours exhibited in Ericsson Sweden and how this affects the organisation. This will then be used to provide the management team of Ericsson South Africa with feedback in terms of what the current issues are in the organisation and the proposed changes. A thorough literature study of wave management, leadership and management style, culture and change management was undertaken. The study revealed that there is a distinct difference in 2nd wave and 4th wave organisations in relation to leadership and management, culture and change management. It emphasised that organisations in 4th wave are far more advanced in all the elements which allows the organisations to be very successful. The research was conducted by a using qualitative approach. The benefit of qualitative research is that it allows for a greater understanding of the concept as well as to learn more about the concept. A questionnaire was used which was sent out to employees in Ericsson South Africa and Ericsson Sweden. The data was then analysed which allowed for certain conclusions to be drawn. It raised some pertinent issues that the management team in Ericsson South Africa need to focus on. The research has indicated that currently Ericsson South Africa is a 2nd wave organisation and that the key focus areas for the organisation is the leadership and management style, culture and change management.
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'n Ondersoek na die kostedoelmatigheid van Gencor se bestuursinligtingstelsels vir gebruik in strategiese bestuur

- Van Rooyen, Nicolaas Gustavus Appelgryn

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