http://hdl.handle.net/10500/45 2013-05-19T07:39:46Z 2013-05-19T07:39:46Z van Jaarsveldt, L.C. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8777 2013-03-16T22:00:29Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

An evaluation of a developmental programme for young academics at the University of South Africa van Jaarsveldt, L.C. The purpose of this article is to evaluate and report on a developmental programme for young academics at the University of South Africa (Unisa). Unisa, one of the world’s mega universities, is a comprehensive, open-and-distance-learning higher education institution in South Africa, which provides a combination of technikon- and university-type programmes. The university employs some 1 200 academics. An important challenge for the university has been its large cohort of ageing academics who have provided the institution not only with its academic memory, but also a substantial portion of its research output. Because of this challenge and the need for succession planning, the university decided to launch a Young Academic Programme to develop and build the capacity for young academics at Unisa.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Myrick, Darrell http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8585 2013-02-02T22:00:24Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pigou's theory of unemployment: a framework for increasing employment. Myrick, Darrell This paper discusses those Keynesian interventions in response to Pigouvian welfare economics and argues that in this present state of economic affairs, what is called for are specific interventions to decrease levels of unemployment resulting from the world economic recession. It is further argued that classical theory and Pigouvian welfare economics can serve as a framework to facilitate a world recovery from what has been called “The Great Recession.”

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Myrick, Darrell http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8584 2013-02-02T22:00:21Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick Taylor as a Contributor to Public Administration. Myrick, Darrell Seventy-five years after his death, a question remains as to whether Frederick Taylor’s scientific theories of management have made a significant contribution to Public Administration. Taylor’s theories focused mainly on increasing productivity in industrial manufacturing environments. The primary concern was for a pragmatic approach to efficiency where planning and standardisation aimed to optimise the human element in production. The article examines how practitioners of Public Administration have adopted and implemented Taylor’s theories. Evidence was found in the work of Morris Cooke, a Taylor disciple who focused on public sector oriented approaches to management and political economy. Taylorism was apparent in the public sector in the years after World War II, a turning point and period when Taylorist theories were humanised. The aim of the article then is to examine how Public Administration has drawn from the field of industrial psychology, towards improving operations in public organisations. The key question is: to what extent has industrial scientific management principles been adopted in the discipline of Public Administration? In light of poor service delivery in South Africa, it is a relevant question that has implications for improving operational efficiency. A historical literature review was undertaken to determine the influence of Taylor’s scientific management theories on Public Administration. The findings drawn from this review and analysis will serve to inform the need for more orderly scientific approaches to service delivery.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Brynard, D.J. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8131 2012-12-08T22:00:21Z 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

Reasons for administrative action: what are the implications for public officials? Brynard, D.J. The right to be given written reasons when the rights of someone has been adversely affected by administrative action has been constitutionalised by the 1996-constitution and fleshed out in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of 2000 (PAJA). In the interests of creating a climate of accountability, transparency and accessibility in public administration, the obligation created by this right is welcomed. The purpose of this article is to determine what the deeper rationale is behind this obligation to furnish reasons. Also to determine who is entitled to reasons, how reasons can be obtained, and what other requirements do the affected people have to satisfy to secure the reasons? The article seeks to explain the procedural requirements on the part of the public administration when a request for reasons is considered. The effect of the duty to provide reasons on the public administration in terms of a failure to provide reasons, the possible exceptions to providing reasons, and the efficiency, accountability and other administrative effects of the obligation are also considered. There is no doubt that the giving of reasons is one of the fundamental features of good public administration.

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