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Conference Papers and Presentations (School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA)): Recent submissions
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2005-10)The roles of political office bearers and appointed officials have been studied and described since Woodrow Wilson’s famous article was published in 1887. The relationship between a minister and the managerial cadre of ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2005-10)Regional integration, which encompasses efforts by a group of countries to promote their political, economic, social and cultural integration and development, has been pursued in Africa since the early 1960s. However, there ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2005-10)Public-Private Partnerships are seen as mechanisms that offer the promise to strengthen government’s policy implementation capacity and its ability to deliver services efficiently, effectively, economically and equitably ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2005-10)The customer care or service approach is designed to improve relationships with and ways of handling customers, that is to realign organisational strategies and processes towards satisfying customers’ needs. The best ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2007-11)To address the many and varied problems that still face African economies it is now generally accepted that they need greater access to international markets to grow in a sustainable way through trade rather than the ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2007-11)The creation of nine provincial governments in 1994 held great promise as a key reform towards meeting the ideals of democracy and inclusiveness, in addition to representing an attempt to make government more efficient ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2007-11)Nigeria and South Africa have established themselves as strong continental players in the African region and wield a lot of power and influence. Both countries have played and continue to play important roles in international ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2007-11)Governance is the exercise of authority, direction and control of an organisation to ensure its goals are achieved. It refers to who is in charge of what; who sets the direction and the parameters within which the direction ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2006-09)The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the challenging environment in which public administration is being implemented in developing countries. Governments and public administrations in developing countries play an ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2006-09)Human resource development is an important function contributing to a country’s growth potential. During periods of transformation, organisations are in particular need of an adequate supply of leaders and managers. In ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2006-09)A new system of municipal government and administration has been introduced in 2000. This required new geographical, political, administrative and managerial arrangements to render municipal services within the total area ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2006-09)If performance management is described as an integrated approach to delivering sustained success to organisations by improving the performance of the people who work in them, consideration needs to be given to what signals ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2006-09)The South African Government has introduced some reforms with the aim and purpose of putting right the historical imbalances and ensuring fair distribution of resources. Some of the reforms that have been brought about ...
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(South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2005-08)Throughout the developing world, cities experience an increasing influx of migrants in search of opportunities. This inward migration poses particular challenges for the municipalities concerned in that socio-economic ...
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