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The impact of HIV/AIDS on morale and productivity in a provincial government department : a case study
No full textThesis (M.A. (Public Management and Administration))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2008.The HIV/AIDS epidemic is likely to result in increased costs and declining
productivity for the public sector, which eventually could lead to a decline in the
morale of the employees. The enormity of the impact of HIV/AIDS will depend on
the number of employees infected and affected, the composition and sustainability
of the invention process and the benefits provided by the department, the
capability of affected directorates and units to work with the skeleton staff and the
indirect effects of HIV/AIDS on other employees within the department and thus on
the overall departmental environment.
As HIV infections advance into AIDS, infected and affected employees are likely to
be absent from the workplace more often. The periods of absenteeism may affect
the productivity of the department, as it is known that the employees are key in the
implementation of both the department's and Gauteng and National Government's
developmental programs. Over and above that it would also increase the
personnel recruitment budget and prolong recruitment routes. AIDS deaths may
lead directly to a reduction in the number of available employees, since the deaths
occur mostly among employees in their most productive years or where
employees are forced to attend the funeral of their relatives. As less experienced
employees sourced from and ever dwindling pool of scarce skills replace
experienced employees, productivity may be reduced. The impact of AIDS also
depends on the skills of affected workers. In the event that skilled employee
become sick or die from AIDS, the department may lose its institutlonal tract.
The department should also consider having a resourced and well managed
Employees Wellness Programme (EWP), which in turn will result in the broadening
of new responsibilities for already burdened human resources and transformation
units and substantially increases the medical costs. The insurance scheme of the
government and other private medical insurers may become more expensive as
insurance companies increase the premiums of coverage in response to high HIV
prevalence rates in the department. Higher costs could hamper savings for other
personal ventures and overburden the welfare system. HIV/AIDS in the workplace
may also lead to increased funeral expenses for employees. Morale and productivity of the employees may also suffer as colleagues fall ill and die.
Likewise, the growing demand for training and recruitment to replace the terminally
ill officers will further increase costs suffered by the department.
Another impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the economy is the impoverishment of
households as able earners of income become incapacitated or die, which leads to
a decline in the demand for some types of goods. The sectors producing those
goods and services may find themselves with a shrinking market, which may
eventually lead to declining profits for the organisations involved in the production
of those good sand servicesMaster
Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for sustainable development in Sedibeng District Municipality
Get PDFPhD (Public Management and Governance), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2014In South Africa, democracy has brought transformative improvement in the system of governance. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996) implemented in the post-apartheid era, has raised the status of the lowest sphere of government, by granting these authorities delegated responsibilities. This sphere of governance is known as local government (municipal government) and in the present context developmental local government is both democratically elected and decentralized. The restructuring of local governance requires municipalities to serve the communities within their areas of jurisdiction. This has brought capacity challenges for the municipalities. They are charged with delivering acceptable standards of services to the residents. The current lack of deliverance is evident in the widespread protests, with community members showing their dissatisfaction with sub-standard service delivery and backlogs. Furthermore, municipalities are required to formulate their own by-laws improve the lives of community members, and to implement their legislative mandates satisfactorily. In order for the municipalities to perform more effectively, a transformative model is necessary. The quality of services currently delivered at municipal level must be reviewed. Monitoring and evaluation are the key elements of assessment which must be undertaken. The rationale behind this monitoring and evaluation is to make the system of governance more effective through an even-handed assessment of policies, programmes, projects, strategies, performance of personnel, and the organization as a whole. For the purpose of this study, the researcher explored the challenges regarding monitoring and evaluation and its impact on sustainable development in Sedibeng District Municipality utilizing the quantitative research approach. A model is proposed for improvement called as Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainable Development (MESD).Doctora
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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