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Employee perceptions towards diversity management in a glass manufacturing company in the Western Cape
(2012)
Diversity is an inevitable aspect of organisational life, which has to be dealt with at one time or another. How employees perceive diversity impacts on their behaviour and therefore managing it is imperative. The purpose ...
The influence of diversity and the educational climate in shaping clinical competence of oral health students
(2013)
High attrition, low retention and low throughput are major problems facing South African higher education institutions. These problems have been attributed to student under-preparedness as a result of the legacy of apartheid ...
Adult learning and social reconciliation: a case study of an academic programme at a Western Cape Higher Education Institution
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Heterogeneous school communities are becoming more apparent under local and global conditions. A school community is more diverse and similar, not only racially but also in respect of economic, cultural, national and ...
Negotiating bilingual identities in selected homes and schools in the Belhar community
(UWC, 2009)
The study explores the negotiation of identities through linguistic innovations such as codeswitching, code-mixing and differing language choices in different domains of home and school in Belhar. The focus is to examine ...
Gene Discovery in Antarctic Dry Valley Soils
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
The metagenomic approach to gene discovery circumvents conventional gene and gene product acquisition by exploiting the uncultured majority of microorganisms in the environment. It was demonstrated in this study that ...
The diversity of key anabolic genes in antarctic hypolithons
(2009)
Antarctica is known for its pristine environments. A variety of unsuitable environmental conditions were once thought to render the continent unsuitable for sustaining life. However, metagenomic data have revealed a wealth ...
Breaking to build: decentralization as an efficient mechanism for achieving national unity in Cameroon
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Governing an ethnically diverse country constitutes a major challenge for state power and government in Cameroon. The call for national unity, championed by the regime in power has had to survive strong demands for greater ...
A study of investigating organisational justice perceptions and experiences of affirmative action in a learning and development organisation
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
There have been good arguments made for the development of aggressive affirmative action policies with the end goal of quickly moving black South Africans into corporate and high ranks within management of organisations. ...
A transformative approach to teaching adults in a culturally diverse context
(University of Western Cape, 2013)
The post-modem society is described as a society on the move, a phenomenon the
anthropologist, (Vigouroux, 2005) describes as 'flows'. These flows are mostly manifested
by people moving in and towards countries with ...
‘Performing Diversity’: Everyday social interaction among migrants from the Great Lakes Region and South Africans in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This dissertation is an exploration of everyday social interactions among and between
migrants from the Great Lakes Region and South Africans, who live together as neighbours
in a post-apartheid South African community. ...