This article analyses the need for staff retention in Higher Education Institutions with reference to two selected South African universities. It highlights the pros and cons of high employee turnover in these institutions. A content analysis is used to identify mechanisms for staff retention in the selected universities. Policy documents pertaining to the retention of staff in these universities show that both universities have appropriate policy instruments for staff retention. The article ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:50:01

The aim of the study was to look at the relationship between organisational incentive schemes and continuance commitment among final year university students. There were 17 male students and 43 female students. Perceptions of participants regarding organisational incentive schemes and continuance commitment were assessed using the short-term incentive questionnaire, long-term incentive questionnaire, the investment in employee development questionnaire, the employee share incentive questionna ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:46:34

The level of citizen confidence held in the managerial and political commitment of local government to meet basic needs is low. This lack of confidence also manifests clearly from recurring service delivery protests. This article postulates that the availability of requisite skills at local government, technical as well as administrative, will lead to improved performance in meeting defined developmental goals which would improve citizen confidence held in government. This article will explor ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:42:56

The aim of the study was to look at the relationship between organisational incentive schemes and continuance commitment among final year university students. There were 17 male students and 43 female students. Perceptions of participants regarding organisational incentive schemes and continuance commitment were assessed using the short-term incentive questionnaire, long-term incentive questionnaire, the investment in employee development questionnaire, the employee share incentive questionna ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:37:55

This article reviews the empowerment needs of councillors at a selected local municipality in the Province of the Eastern Cape. The article further assesses capacity-building programmes previously offered by the selected municipality in an effort to empower its councillors in terms of the "new" developmental mandate, rules of procedure and the need for effective public consultation strategies. A recent empirical survey carried out at the selected municipality revealed that certain c ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:34:56

The purpose of the article is to investigate the influence of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) on governance and government legitimacy. Monitoring and evaluation could enhance governance and government legitimacy through a participative approach of including more stakeholders in service delivery. The absence of proper performance management systems and accountability mechanisms diminish the value of M&E initiatives. The article proposes that M&E audits be undertaken through a cost- ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:30:14

The aim of the study was to assess the impact of mentoring on leadership behaviour. There were fifty-six employees in leadership positions who participated in this study. The sample was drawn from organisations based in Johannesburg. Leadership behaviour was measured using Stogdil's (1963) Leader Behaviour Description Questionnaire (LDBQ) From XII Self. The test scores of participants in leadership positions who went through a formal organisational mentorship programme were compared with ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:25:31

All government spheres in multi-level governance systems face challenges of co-ordination and alignment of scarce resources for the common good - while retaining their distinctiveness and independence. Within a decentralised system, the challenges of poverty and inequality require a co-ordinated response by all spheres of government, and it is considered that network governance may provide a useful model for co-ordinating a joint response to such complexity. This article examines network gove ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:21:34

The provision of better services to the people is a constitutional obligation of the South African government, and for that to happen local municipalities need to have leaders with the right sets of skills. For that reason, local municipalities saw it fit to introduce programmes that would empower their councillors with necessary and appropriate leadership skills that would enhance their performance for the betterment of service delivery. The Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality in the Limpopo P ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:16:53

Public servants play a major role in providing services that are responsive to the needs of members of the public. Public servants should be commitment to their work. Worthwhile commitment does not come automatically. It has to be created. Creating commitment in public servants contributes in developing a positive work ethic as commitment is one of its behavioural indicants. In this article, the description of the term commitment will be provided. Four pillars of creating commitment will be i ...

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2021-Jun-20 22:32:07

Good governance, the Holy Grail all countries, particularly developing countries, seek has been a topic of interest in Africa since the 1990s, spurred by concerns about the continent's lagging development. This article analyses the quality of South African governance based on 2007 to 2012 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IAG) reports, which provide substantial, reliable and objective data for analysis. The IAG responds to the need for a relevant, objective, quantitative instrument ...

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2021-Jun-20 22:27:25

This article provides the rationale for the importance of evaluation as a research tool for the public sector to be accountable for improving better democratic governance outcomes in terms of its policies, interventions, projects and programmes. The article covers the historical background of evaluation and introduces a classification of democracy models and the type of evaluation needed. It explains the relationship between the needs of democratic societies with different evaluation paradigm ...

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2021-Jun-20 22:21:37

This article puts forward a conceptual argument that in as much as modern science in its positivist form is necessary for governance in the post-apartheid South Africa, ensuring proper governance requires analysis that is beyond the realm of modern scientific rationality. Modern science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It is through modern science that problems are broken apart for proper ra ...

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2021-Jun-20 22:16:31

The question of leadership and governance are broad and often intricate to fathom with precision and certainty. This is especially true in a public sphere where there are many actors who offer antithetic interests to the society. For example, an establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which later evolved to become the African Union (AU) has been attempting to pontificate the epistle of Africa and its people to translate their leadership and governance errands into refulgent ...

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2021-Jun-20 22:11:22