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Partnership as a strategy in implementing sustainable community development in Mandeni Municipality
Full text linkA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Community Work in the Department of Social Work at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2012Community development in rural areas is under stress due to numerous setbacks such as theft, neglect, and lack of skills from the community to support development initiatives. The municipality remains the only relevant government institution that could deal with this unsustainable nature of community development by establishing an effective partnership with rural communities. In principle partnerships offer many advantages including that of sustainability of community development infrastructures. This study demonstrates that municipality has a valuable role to play in dealing with
sustainability of community development. The study emphasises that both the
municipality officials and the community should acquire relevant skills that would promote sustainable community development. The study was descriptive, exploratory and qualitative in nature. A survey questionnaire containing both qualitative and quantitative questions was used to collect the data from the respondents. The findings in this study indicate that the rural communities in Mandeni municipality are not empowered by the partnership between them and the municipality. The municipality is also experiencing a shortage of personnel and appropriate specialists to facilitate mentorship programmes for the rural communities on sustainable community development. In the study respondents also indicated that a partnership is necessary to empower a rural community on sustainable community development provided the community and municipality officials are trained adequately. Partnerships will increasingly become a popular approach to government-community relations, from this perspective there is a hope for improved services for communities in rural areas
Public satisfation on municipality and response to service delivery
No full textA dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Administration in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Zululand, South Africa [2024].ENGLISH VERSION
Local government officials are responsible for making municipalities the most visible levels of government. However, if planned services are not delivered, municipal employees can become targets of citizen aggression due to their proximity to the angry public and their association with public service challenges. Given this close relationship between local government employees and the community, it became necessary to examine the connections between external workplace aggression initiated by the public and employee behaviour. Despite the existing literature, there is a gap in understanding how community aggression originating from public anger with municipalities affected municipal officials. This research focused on the extent to which external workplace aggression influences prosocial and proactive behaviour of Mtubatuba Municipality employees. The study used social exchange theory as its theoretical framework to investigate this because provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the reciprocal relationships between individuals and their environment, particularly in the context of workplace interactions.
The study adopted a convergent parallel mixed method design, which involves independently collecting and evaluating both quantitative and qualitative data and subsequently comparing and integrating the findings. Given this research approach, pragmatism was deemed suitable philosophical orientation for the study. The study engaged 132 participants through questionnaires and conducted in-depth interviews with five key informants. Quantitative data analysis employed the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), while a content analysis approach was applied to the qualitative data. Rigorous data quality control was upheld to ensure the reliability and validity of the quantitative data collection instrument and the trustworthiness of the qualitative research instrument. Structural equation model (SEM) was used to test research hypotheses regarding the influences of external workplace aggression on prosocial and proactive work behaviour of municipal employees.
The research findings reveal that external workplace aggression is a prevalent experience among the participants, encompassing both psychological and physical forms of aggression. Some employees had experienced mild forms of aggression, such as being rudely treated or yelled at. Others reported experiencing more severe forms of aggression, such as being threatened with a weapon or physically assaulted. Notably, external workplace aggression exhibits a negative correlation (-0.342**) with prosocial workplace behaviour, implying that higher levels of external workplace aggression are associated with reduced levels of prosocial work behaviour. Additionally, there is a moderately negative relationship (-0.345**) between proactive work behaviour and external workplace aggression, suggesting that increased levels of external workplace aggression correspond to decreased proactive workplace behaviour. The findings also highlight the absence of mechanisms to support employees when facing external workplace aggression, thus explaining the reason behind the absence of reported external workplace aggression.
The study underscores the need for the municipality to take proactive measures to mitigate external workplace aggression. This includes implementing security measures and training employees on effectively handling confrontations with aggressive customers or clients. The study also recommends continued security protection for senior officials who are more likely to encounter external workplace aggression compared to other municipal staff members. It is crucial for the municipality to acknowledge the detrimental impact of external workplace aggression on prosocial and proactive behaviour and establish a reporting mechanism for employees to address encounters with external workplace aggression effectively.OKUHUNYUSHWE NGOLIMI LWESIZULU
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Abasebenzi bakahulumeni wasekhaya banesibopho sokwenza omasipala babe sezingeni elibonakalayo likahulumeni. Kodwa-ke, uma izinsiza ezihleliwe zingalethwa, abasebenzi bakamasipala bangaba yizisulu zokuhlaselwa yizakhamizi ngenxa yokusondelana nomphakathi othukuthele kanye nokuhlotshaniswa kwabo nezinselele zenkonzo yomphakathi. Uma kubhekwa lobu budlelwano obuseduze phakathi kwabasebenzi bakahulumeni wasekhaya kanye nomphakathi, kubalulekile ukuhlola ukuxhumana phakathi kodlame lwangaphandle lwasemsebenzini oluqalwa ukuziphatha komphakathi kanye nabasebenzi. Ngaphezu kwemiqulu ekhona, kunegebe ekuqondeni ukuthi udlame lomphakathi oluvela entukuthelweni ngomasipala kuthinta kanjani abasebenzi bakamasipala. Lolu cwaningo lugxile ekutheni udlame lwangaphandle komsebenzi luba nomthelela ongakanani ekuziphatheni okwamkelekile nasekubeni ungqa phambili kwabasebenzi bakumasipala waseMtubatuba. Ucwaningo lusebenzise umbono oyisisekelo wokushintshisana kwemizwa njengohlaka lwalo ukuphenya lokhu.
Lolu cwaningo lwamukele ukwakheka kwezindlela ezixubile ezihambisanayo, ezibandakanya ukuqoqwa nokuhlola ngokuzimela idatha yobuningi nekhwalithi bese kulandela ukuqhathanisa nokuhlanganisa okutholakele. Uma kubhekwa le ndlela yocwaningo, i- pragmatism ithathwe njengefanelekile. Lolu cwaningo lubandakanye ababambiqhaza abayi- 132 ngohlu lwemibuzo futhi lwenze izingxoxo ezijulile nabahlanu abanolwazi olubalulekile. Ukuhlaziywa kwedatha yobuningi kusebenzise iphakheji Yezibalo Yesayensi Yezenhlalakahle (SPSS), kuyilapho indlela yokuhlaziya okuqukethwe isetshenziswe kwidatha yekhwalithi. Ukulawulwa kwekhwalithi yedatha okuqinile kuye kwasekelwa ukuze kuqinisekiswe ukwethembeka nokuba semthethweni kwethuluzi lokuqoqwa kwedatha lobuningi kanye nokwethembeka kwethuluzi locwaningo lwekhwalithi. Imodeli ye-Structural equation (SEM) yasetshenziswa ukuhlola inkolelo-mbono yocwaningo mayelana nemithelela yolaka lwangaphandle lwendawo yokusebenza okusebenzayo kubasebenzi bakamasipala.
Imiphumela yocwaningo yembula ukuthi ulaka lwangaphandle lwasemsebenzini luyinto evamile phakathi kwababambiqhaza, ihlanganisa izinhlobo ezimbili zolaka, ezengqondo nezomzimba. Ezinye izisebenzi zike zabona nolaka olungatheni, njengokuphathwa kabi noma ukuthethiswa. Abanye babike ukuthi bahlangabezane nezindlela ezinzima kakhulu zolaka, njengokusatshiswa ngesikhali noma ukuhlukunyezwa ngokomzimba. Okuphawulekayo; ulaka lwangaphandle lwasemsebenzini lubonisa ukuhlobana okungekuhle (-0.342**) nokuziphatha komphakathi emsebenzini, okusho ukuthi amazinga aphezulu olaka lwangaphandle ahlobene namazinga ancishisiwe okuziphatha komsebenzi we-prosocial. Ukwengeza, kukhona ubudlelwano obubi ngokwesilinganiso (-0.345**) phakathi kokuziphatha okuqhubekayo emsebenzini kanye nolaka lwangaphandle, okuphakamisa ukuthi amazinga anyukile olaka lwangaphandle lomsebenzi uhambisana nokuncipha kokuziphatha emsebenzini. Okutholakele kuphinde kugqamise ukungabikho kwezindlela zokweseka abasebenzi uma bebhekene nolaka lwangaphandle, ngaleyo ndlela kuchaza isizathu sokungabikho kolaka lwangaphandle olubikiwe.
Lolu cwaningo lugcizelela isidingo sokuthi umasipala athathe izinyathelo zokunqanda ulaka lwangaphandle lwasemsebenzini. Lokhu kuhlanganisa ukusebenzisa izindlela zokuphepha nokuqeqesha abasebenzi ekusingatheni ukungqubuzana ngokuphumelelayo namakhasimende noma amaklayenti anolaka. Lolu cwaningo luphinde luphakamise ukuthi kuqhutshekwe nokuvikelwa kwezokuphepha ezikhulwini eziphezulu okungenzeka zibhekane nodlame lwangaphandle uma ziqhathaniswa nezinye izisebenzi zikamasipala. Kubalulekile ukuthi umasipala uvume umthelela omubi wodlame lwangaphandle endaweni yokusebenzela ekuziphatheni okunenqubekela phambili nokusheshayo futhi usungule indlela yokubika ukuze abasebenzi babhekane nokuhlangana nodlame lwangaphandle ngempumelelo
Perceived Effects of Psychological Contract Breach on Job Involvement and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Academic Employees in A TVET Institution
Full text linkAbstract: The aim of this paper is to establish how academic employees in technical, vocational education and training (TVET) College perceive the effects of psychological contract breach (PCB) in relations to job involvement and citizenship behaviour. Quantitative exploratory research design and a survey instrument were used to collect 170 samples from academic employees in a TVET College to share their perceptions of PCB. The findings confirm a significant (P-value .006) relationship between PCB and job involvement. There is a strong indication that PCB has an effect on job involvement. The findings also revealed that there is a relationship between PCB and organisational citizenship behaviour. However, it is not significant since the (P-value was .119) in the regression analysis. These results are a consequence of academics not feeling a significant PCB, which might have explained better the relationship between PCB and organisational citizenship behaviour. Significantly, the paper established TVET College academics has a stable employer-employee relationship since there is minimal PCB
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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