Department of Public Administration
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3086
2024-03-29T08:47:53ZNursing personnel administration within a hospital
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/10653
Nursing personnel administration within a hospital
Thompson, Rosalie A.E
The nurse qualified in the area of administration occupies a position with immense scope and potential in the profession and society.
The task of senior nursing management is a matter of balancing and reconciling the values and aims of the organization with the
values, aims, and professional aspirations of the nursing staff, and of related and interdependent groups of health professionals, while creating and gaining commitment to a wider concept of the service and the nurses' role in it. The balancing and reconciling of organizational, occupational, service, and educational demands with individual aspirations and expectations are delicate but essential if all available resources are to be optimally deployed. Success in the latter marks out an effective manager though it is difficult to measure this success. I believe this many-sided accomplishment is vital, for surely all philosophy, education, and research within nursing is valid ultimately
only in its actual application to clinical practice. Professional nurses, fulfilling various degrees of administrative functions, are to be found in all areas and levels of nursing. It is the role of the upper echelons of Nurse Administrators (Matrons) in large, general teaching hospitals that this thesis will be focused on.
Masters in Public Administration - MPA
1980-01-01T00:00:00ZParticipatory Monitoring and Evaluation in the provision of sanitation services in a South African Informal Settlement: A Case study of Isiqalo Area, in Cape Town
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/10388
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation in the provision of sanitation services in a South African Informal Settlement: A Case study of Isiqalo Area, in Cape Town
Magadla, Noluvuyo
The study investigates the efficacy of participatory monitoring and evaluation about sanitation
service delivery rendered by the City of Cape Town in the Isiqalo informal settlement. The
problem is that though the municipality (the City of Cape Town) provides sanitation
infrastructure like bucket toilets, porta potties, and chemical waste toilets to this informal
settlement in line with the constitution Act 108 of 1996 and these bucket toilets are supposed
to be collected on a specific day in a week. Interestingly, this collection process does not happen
consistently as these toilets are not regularly emptied. This irregularity in the collection of the
buckets has emerged as a problem/challenge as these residents are forced to deal with human
excrement for weeks with no alternative place to relieve themselves. This is de-humanising
and requires in-depth investigation. In this light, this study seeks to understand how the
involvement of the community through participatory monitoring and evaluation of sanitation
services in the Isiqalo informal settlement can enhance the regularity of the removal of these
bucket toilets. This is crucial since participatory monitoring and evaluation seeks to ensure that
communities have a strong arm and means to hold the government accountable for service
delivery in their communities.
Magister Administrationis - MAdmin
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZIndigeneity and political identity: A study of the contemporary legacy of the hamitic hypothesis in Mali
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/10379
Indigeneity and political identity: A study of the contemporary legacy of the hamitic hypothesis in Mali
The limited investment of the colonial authority into the development of the colony and its
people are sometimes offered as explanation for why African states seem to fail at the
democratic project. This together with the arbitrary manner within which colonial borders were
drawn without regard for culture and ethnicity have been touted as the main reason for violent
upheaval and political instability. While this may be true it is nonetheless insufficient to explain,
understand and describe the embeddedness of violence within various states on the continent.
The thesis will counter the conception of violence in Africa as only an economic colonial legacy
and will instead argue that the violence and political instability is also a product of complex
identity formation. It is argued that specific historical contexts and narratives create identities.
The creation of this will be explored and explained through the narrative of the Hamitic
Hypothesis. The Hamitic Hypothesis is a theory of race and culture which was used, adapted,
and promulgated by the colonial authority as it helped to explain and legitimate the practice of
colonial rule.
Magister Administrationis - MAdmin
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZInvestigating participatory development in South Africa and Nigeria: A case study of Stellenbosch and Bwari municipalities
http://hdl.handle.net/11394/9991
Investigating participatory development in South Africa and Nigeria: A case study of Stellenbosch and Bwari municipalities
Friday, Alaji
This qualitative case-study investigated the level of communities’ participation in developmental initiatives at the grassroots level in Stellenbosch and Bwari municipalities. This was carried out through the prism of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) using Kayamandi and Bwari communities in South Africa and Nigeria as case studies respectively.
In this study, the participatory development approach was employed as the theoretical bedrock for this investigation. In choosing this approach, the genealogy of participatory development approach was examined in light of the failure of some of the earlier development theories such as the growth, modernization, and dependency theories.
Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
2022-01-01T00:00:00Z