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Browsing Research Articles (School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA)) by Issue Date
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Brynard, P.A. (Petrus); Mataboge, Samuel
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2000-09)
This article describes some important processes which can be used by
public administrators to successfully manage in-migration (urbanisation) in Gauteng. It shows ways and means the public
administrators could utilise ...
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Carstens, M.; Thornhill, Christopher
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2000-09)
A number of Western developed countries initiated administrative reform programs during the early 1980’s. The nature and scope of their reform interventions became known as new public administration
(NPM). This paper ...
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Moeti, Kabelo Boikutso
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2000-12)
The discussion of the paper begins with a summarized discussion of some of the
major complexities involved in public sector performance evaluation. This is
followed by a discussion of the literature of the actual methods ...
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Mafunisa, M.J. (Mutuwafhethu John)
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2000-12)
This paper examines the role of cultures in developing a positive work ethic. The
paper starts with the identification of the factors that inhibit improving work
ethic in the public service. It further focuses on the ...
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Van Rooyen, Enslin
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2001-03)
South African local government managers presently face a formidable range of
challenges. Over and above the management of the local government institutional
transformation processes and associated issues, an equally ...
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Fourie, D.J. (David Johannes)
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2001-03)
The Government of the day fulfills an important role in the development and
sustainability of the skills of public officials. This acquired skills is of
importance in order to deliver an effective service to all South ...
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Kuye, Jerry O.
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2001-03)
This paper examines a variety of issues and sub-issues within the realm of equity
in the academic workplace or institutions of higher learning. It starts with a
clarification of the environments terminology. Debates ...
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Fourie, D.J. (David Johannes)
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2001-03)
Citizen participation on any level of government is timeless. The dynamics and the relationships of citizen participation on all levels are unique, due to the fact that many problems and solutions have their roots in the ...
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Burger, D.; Brynard, P.A. (Petrus)
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2001-06)
One of the most extensive challenges that ordinary South Africans, and more specifically, the South African government is faced with, is to find a way to manage the looming HIV/AIDS disaster that is
unfolding in our midst. ...
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Mafunisa, M.J. (Mutuwafhethu John)
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2001-12)
This paper examines the role of professionalism in promoting effective, efficient,
impartial, fair, equitable and ethical municipal service delivery. The paper starts
by identifying relevant literature on the topic. It ...
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Roux, Nico L.; Van Rooyen, Enslin
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-03)
South Africa’s emergence into the global sphere after years of isolation necessitates
a re-consideration of its political, economic development and social policies
and strategies. Public servants are presently required ...
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Fourie, D.J. (David Johannes)
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2002-03)
The urgent need to develop South Africa's human resources in the public
service has been conceptualized in many policy documents. The underlying
objective of efforts to strengthen the human resources in the public sector, ...
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Fourie, D.J. (David Johannes)
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-06)
The promulgation of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act 1 of 1999),
shifted the emphasis away from a rule driven and highly centralised system of
expenditure control to the management of public financial resources ...
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Brynard, P.A. (Petrus); Malan, Lianne Priscilla
(2002-07)
The purpose of this article is to investigate conservation management and intergovernmental relations with reference to the national and selected provincial parks in South Africa. A number of structures and institutions ...
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Thornhill, Christopher; Van Dijk, Hilligje Gerritdina
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-09)
The article describes the formation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and reflects on the structure and value of the institution within the region. The concept of intergovernmental relations (IGR) is ...
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Vil-Nkomo, Sibusiso
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-11)
The advancement of Africa and NEPAD depends entirely on the emergence
in this millennium of an African leadership for development. Issues of
leadership and operational citizenship are examined and analyzed. The
article ...
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Roux, Nico L.
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2002-12)
Since 1993/4 South Africa has been characterised by comprehensive political,
constitutional and socio-economic transformation and change. South
Africa was also provided the opportunity to break away from the boundaries
of ...
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Mafunisa, M.J. (Mutuwafhethu John)
(Graduate School of Business Leadership and the Department of Business Management, University of South Africa, 2003)
This paper addresses the subject of conflict of interest: an ethical dilemma in politics and administration. Conflict of interest denotes a situation in which an employee has a private financial interest sufficient to ...
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Van Rooyen, Enslin
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-03)
Community participation currently forms an important element of the South African government's policy on integrated development planning in local government. Community participation and stakeholder negotiation involve a ...
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Kent-Brown, Duke; Roux, Nico L.
(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2003-06)
There has been a tendency among practitioners in the Political Science and
Public Administration/Management fields to jealously guard their respective
academic domains; and to be often extremely sensitive to a ...