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Principals' experiences when providing management and strategic leadership at technical vocational education and training colleges in South AfricaMothapo, Mamochite George 07 1900 (has links)
In this qualitative study, the research objective was to present a theoretical framework for the phenomenon of discovering principals’ experiences when providing management and strategic leadership at Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges in South Africa. Furthermore, the college Senior Management Team (SMT) members were also part of the study as they support and contribute towards to the functioning of TVET colleges.
According to Hoy and Miskel (2013), an open social-systems model of schools provides an overarching and useful conceptual framework that organizes and relates this theory and research for educational administrators. At the heart of our social-systems model are four critical elements of school life—structure, motivation, culture, and politics (Hoy &Miskel 2013).
The data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with participants, while the observation of how principals provided strategic management and leadership was done on a daily basis. The researcher was deputy principal corporate services at a TVET College therefore the contact with other TVET colleges and the DHET was used as a better way to conduct observation.
It against the above background that the main themes were developed from the participants’ responses in the bureaucratic, political, and cultural sub-dimensions of the social system.
In terms of the incorporation of the sub-dimensions of a social system, it was found that college SMTs should actively model and promote effective management and strategic leadership.
This study focused on the strategic leadership and management initiatives, legislations and regulations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of day-to-day operations of TVET colleges in South Africa. The study explored in depth the management and strategic leadership roles and responsibilities of the TVET college principals. A comparative study of South Africa’s public TVET college as well as the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia was also conducted.
Furthermore, there is a need to contribute to the organizational culture and climate, job performance, employee morale and engagement, and staff retention. These may be achieved by capacitating college principals and their SMTs with relevant short courses.
It is recommended that the role of the DHET and college council must shift from enforcing bureaucratic compliance to collective capacity building within the TVET colleges. This can be achieved by establishing processes and procedures that are supported by sound monitoring and reporting systems.
Finally, recommendations made from this study are expected to empower principals and other middle managers and administrators to assist them to achieve the strategic objectives and to relate with all stakeholder that exists within the TVET sector. / Educational Management and Leadership / Ph. D. (Education Management)
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Sécurité et reconstruction d’après-guerre : l’action policière et militaire internationaleRivard Piché, Gaëlle 07 1900 (has links)
La réforme des secteurs de sécurité est au cœur du processus de reconstruction postconflictuelle et du rétablissement de l’État de droit. Souvent implantées par des acteurs internationaux, ces réformes sont nécessaires au développement socio-économique des sociétés sortant de conflit. L’objectif premier de ce travail est d’établir si la coordination des forces militaires et policières internationales a une influence sur la réussite de la réforme des secteurs de sécurité dans le cadre des missions de paix de l’ONU. L'hypothèse de départ est la suivante : la coordination entre les policiers et les militaires sur le terrain, facilitée par la coopération entre les composantes policières et militaires du Département des opérations de maintien de la paix de l'ONU (DOMP), favorise le succès de la RSS. C’est la culture bureaucratique de l’ONU qui influencera la qualité et le degré de coopération entre les composantes policières et militaires du DOMP. Cela sera vérifié à travers l’étude en deux temps de l’aide internationale apportée à la réforme des secteurs de sécurité en Haïti de 1993 à 1997, puis de 2004 à aujourd’hui. La qualité de la coordination entre policiers et militaires dépend de facteurs internes à la mission plutôt que des initiatives mises de l’avant par les quartiers généraux de l’ONU. De plus, la coordination militaropolicière sur le terrain facilite certains aspects de la réforme des secteurs de sécurité, comme la professionnalisation des forces policières locales et le rétablissement de la sécurité. / Security sector reform is central to post conflict reconstruction and the restoration of rule of law. Often initiated by international actors, these reforms are essential to social and economic development in societies coming out of conflicts. The primary objective of this thesis is to determine whether international police and military coordination has an impact on security sector reform’s success in United Nations peace operations. The main hypothesis follows: police-military coordination in peace operations, supported by cooperation between police and military offices inside the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), fosters security sector reform success. It is the United Nations bureaucratic culture that influences the level and the quality of cooperation between police and military agencies inside the DPKO. This will be tested through a qualitative analysis of security sector reform programs implemented by the United Nations in Haiti, from 1993 to 1997 and 2004 to nowadays. The quality of coordination between police and military on the ground depends more on internal factors to the mission than on initiatives fostered by UN headquarters. Furthermore, police-military coordination fosters some aspects of security sector reform, like the professionalization of local police and security restoration.
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Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der Ausländerbehörde: „Wir sind hier praktisch nur der Mittler zwischen dem Ganzen.“ / Intercultural communication in a German Immigration Office: A discours-analytical study of verbal strategies used for knowledge transfer and de-escalation by German employees in communication with their non-German clientsPorila, Astrid 27 May 2014 (has links) (PDF)
Diese Arbeit untersucht mündliche Kommunikation zwischen Mitarbeitern einer deutschen Ausländerbehörde und ihren Klienten. Anhand authentischer Gesprächsaufnahmen und Ergebnissen teilnehmender Beobachtung sowie unter Einsatz der funktional-pragmatischen Diskursanalyse wird erforscht, wie Behördenvertreter im Zuge der Anliegensbearbeitung Wissen an ihre ausländischen Klienten vermitteln. Die Spezifik des Handlungsfelds Ausländerbehörde wird anhand bereits vorhandener Forschungsergebnisse und eigener Daten rekonstruiert. Es ergibt sich ein Bild starker Dichotomie, was das Wissen und die Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Klienten und Agenten der Behörde betrifft. Diese Zweiteilung, die daraus resultierende Dominanz der Institution und die sozialwissenschaftlich belegte Unzufriedenheit der Aktanten ergeben in der Summe ein hohes latentes Konfliktpotential. Durch die existentielle Bedeutung der ausländerbehördlichen Handlungen für die Klienten wird dieses Potential noch verstärkt. Die Problematik wird zudem verschärft durch Kulturdifferenzen und Fremdsprachlichkeit, die dieser Kommunikation inhärent sind.
Die Arbeit geht davon aus, dass diese Spezifika des Handlungsfeldes dem vermittelnden Agentenhandeln ein besonderes Gewicht verleihen. Solches sprachliches Handeln äußert sich im Bemühen um Verständigung und Reduzierung des Konfliktpotentials. In der Untersuchung wird demonstriert, dass die szenische Rede ein für solche Ziele geeignetes sprachliches Mittel darstellt. Agenten der Institution setzen es zur Vermittlung komplexen institutionellen Wissens in latent konflikthaften Situationen ein.
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Rural development and community participation in LesothoMonaheng, Tsitso 11 1900 (has links)
Rural development efforts in Third World countries often fail to meet the needs of
the most disadvantaged members of society. The priviledged continue to get a
disproportionate share of the fruits of development. This is so in spite of the fact
that development thinking has changed from the days when the poor were
expected to benefit from development through the "trickle down" effect. It is now
widely recognised that development should be focused on people in their local
communities (human development) and not on the economy per se.
To achieve this type of development requires an appropriate strategy of
development, and people's/community participation is such a strategy. People's
participation in development takes place through community based organisations.
The organisations faciiitate the development of the human potential of members.
This study investigates the conditions under which rural community participation
takes place in lesotho. The Thabana-Morena Integrated Rural Development Project
is used as a case study.
The first objective is to determine the appropriateness of the organisations through
which community participation was promoted in the project.
The second objective is to isolate the political and administrative factors which
affected participation in the project.
Thirdly, the study tries to identify factors at the village level which influenced
participation in the project.
Fourthly, the study evaluates the effectiveness of the project in experimenting with
participatory approaches, given that development projects are basically
mechanisms for testing the appropriateness of national policies before applying
them on a wide scale.
Finally, a set of principles is developed on the basis of which participatory
development can be facilitated. / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Development Administration)
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Controlled by Knowledge : A Study of two Clinical pathways in Mental HealthcareJerndahl Fineide, Mona January 2012 (has links)
Standardisation of professional work is a major policy concern to ensure quality and efficiency of services and a number of hospitals are now focusing on the use of clinical pathways as an important tool to standardise their work. This study sheds light on the processes set in motion when notions of standardisation meet local practice. In order to gain insight into what clinical pathways mean for professional work in mental health care, the focus of the study was to explore the contexts in which standardisation by “rule production” takes place. Two empirical cases from Norwegian mental health care show how dedicated professionals are in charge of carrying out the standardisation work, strongly influenced by a steering framework of defined governmental policies where employee involvement and responsibility ensured loyalty to the idea. Along with a “package” of ideas, new bodies and techniques, clinical pathways contribute to the institutionalisation of prima facie knowledge in demonstrating that evidence basing is linked to steering and control of employees. Thus, professional autonomy is threatened in an insidious way: through the institutionalisation of evidence-based knowledge as ‘prima facie’ knowledge in combination with professionals who standardise and control their own work. The thesis therefore concludes that the control of professional work has now become a complex and sophisticated process where professional work is “controlled by knowledge”.
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Sécurité et reconstruction d’après-guerre : l’action policière et militaire internationaleRivard Piché, Gaëlle 07 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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[pt] ALÉM DA GUERRA FRIA: A MAXIMIZAÇÃO DA FLEXIBILIDADE ESTRATÉGICA NORTE-AMERICANA E O TRATADO DE MOSCOU (2002) / [en] BEYOND THE COLD WAR: THE MAXIMIZATION OF U.S. STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY ANDDIEGO SANTOS VIEIRA DE JESUS 18 May 2005 (has links)
[pt] O principal objetivo da dissertação é explicar a assinatura do Tratado sobre
Reduções Ofensivas Estratégicas - o Tratado de Moscou – pelo presidente
George W. Bush e a aprovação unânime, pelos senadores norte-americanos, da
resolução de conselho e consentimento para a ratificação do tratado. Tais
decisões são vistas como resultados de um jogo de negociação no qual se
observam a interação e a influência recíproca entre os níveis internacional e
doméstico. As hipóteses indicam que membros do Executivo e grande parte do
Senado norte-americanos mostraram-se interessados no tratado – que estipula
uma redução substancial do número agregado de ogivas nucleares estratégicas
dos EUA e da Rússia, de modo a não exceder 1.700-2.200 para cada parte no fim
de 2012 –, pois ele garante a autonomia para definir como a redução será
implementada e para determinar a estrutura das forças ofensivas estratégicas em
face das novas ameaças aos EUA e aos seus aliados. / [en] The main purpose of the dissertation is to explain the
signature of the
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty - known as the Treaty
of Moscow - by
president George W. Bush and the unanimous approval of the
resolution of
advice and consent to ratification of the treaty by the
U.S. Senate. These
decisions are seen as the results of a bargaining game in
which the national and
the international levels interact and influence each other.
The hypotheses
indicate that the members of the U.S. executive and a huge
number of the U.S.
senators were interested in the treaty - which stipulates
that each party shall
reduce substantially the aggregate number of U.S. and
Russian strategic nuclear
warheads, so that it does not exceed 1,700-2,200 for each
side by the end of
2012 - because it preserves the ability to define how the
reductions will be
implemented and to determine for themselves the structure
of their strategic
offensive forces, in order to respond to the new threats to
their country and its
allies.
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Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der Ausländerbehörde: „Wir sind hier praktisch nur der Mittler zwischen dem Ganzen.“: Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der Ausländerbehörde:„Wir sind hier praktisch nur der Mittler zwischen dem Ganzen.“: Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung zu Strategien der Wissensvermittlung beim sprachlichen Handeln von Sachbearbeitern in einer AusländerbehördePorila, Astrid 22 May 2006 (has links)
Diese Arbeit untersucht mündliche Kommunikation zwischen Mitarbeitern einer deutschen Ausländerbehörde und ihren Klienten. Anhand authentischer Gesprächsaufnahmen und Ergebnissen teilnehmender Beobachtung sowie unter Einsatz der funktional-pragmatischen Diskursanalyse wird erforscht, wie Behördenvertreter im Zuge der Anliegensbearbeitung Wissen an ihre ausländischen Klienten vermitteln. Die Spezifik des Handlungsfelds Ausländerbehörde wird anhand bereits vorhandener Forschungsergebnisse und eigener Daten rekonstruiert. Es ergibt sich ein Bild starker Dichotomie, was das Wissen und die Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Klienten und Agenten der Behörde betrifft. Diese Zweiteilung, die daraus resultierende Dominanz der Institution und die sozialwissenschaftlich belegte Unzufriedenheit der Aktanten ergeben in der Summe ein hohes latentes Konfliktpotential. Durch die existentielle Bedeutung der ausländerbehördlichen Handlungen für die Klienten wird dieses Potential noch verstärkt. Die Problematik wird zudem verschärft durch Kulturdifferenzen und Fremdsprachlichkeit, die dieser Kommunikation inhärent sind.
Die Arbeit geht davon aus, dass diese Spezifika des Handlungsfeldes dem vermittelnden Agentenhandeln ein besonderes Gewicht verleihen. Solches sprachliches Handeln äußert sich im Bemühen um Verständigung und Reduzierung des Konfliktpotentials. In der Untersuchung wird demonstriert, dass die szenische Rede ein für solche Ziele geeignetes sprachliches Mittel darstellt. Agenten der Institution setzen es zur Vermittlung komplexen institutionellen Wissens in latent konflikthaften Situationen ein.
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The "Equalizer" Administration: Managerial Strategies in the Public SectorCavalcanti, Bianor Scelza 08 April 2005 (has links)
The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the managerial "action" of public administrators in the management of their organizations within the Brazilian context.
The research seeks to understand the relationships between managers and formal management mechanisms by exploring the complementary nature of the effective managerial action in the face of structural deficiencies and flaws, considering the possibility of overcoming the structuralism-subjectivism dichotomy present in the construction of the Theory of Organizations.
Initially, the study provides a review of the literature on organizational design. It highlights the "goodness of fit" proposition on strategic choice issues concerning the main organizational variables design and organizational goal attainment. It also calls special attention to the emerging interest of designing theorists on interpretivist approaches to the matter, such that of Karl Weick.
A review of the the administrative reforms in Brazil is made from the perspective of the main stream organizational design conceptual framework. It highlights the complex dynamics of a constant search for differentiation and flexibilization subject to patterns of advances and reversals, due to the centrality, strength and pervasiveness of the bureaucratic model. It is concluded that in no single given moment, a public manager and his team, may count on a formal organizational design which attends the"congruency" criteria, devised by organizational design conceptual frameworks, to explain organizational results in different environmental sets. Although this conclusion may explain failure at the public sector, it can not provide understanding on the many instances of significative success attained by government operations in spite of inadequate formal administrative structures. This point calls for a better understanding from the interpretivist approach, on how public administrators, strongly associated with good organizational results, engage into transformative action, in order to superate administrative structures flaws and dysfunctional cultural patterns of conduct, structurally present and constantly reproduced, in vigorous developing countries, such as Brazil.
The dissertation transcribes the testimony of four outstanding public administrators, doing a deep incursion in the managerial real world of public administration, as subjectively defined by them and transformed by their engagement into action.Through the thematic version of the Oral History methodology, full segments of the complete interviews are categorized into the thirty two managerial strategies captured which are presented on a recategorized manner under eight main strategies: (1) Interchanging Frames of Reference; (2) Exploring the Formal Limits; (3) Playing the Bureaucracy Game; (4) Inducing the Inclusion of Others (5)Promoting Internal Cohesion; (6) Creating Shields against Transgressions; (7) Overcoming Internal Restrictions; (8) Letting the Structures Blossom. Each one of these eight blocks of strategies presented, deserves further reflexive interpretation by the author, on the light of the interpretivist approach to organizational design.
A final effort is made, now on theory building, for improving understanding on the matter. In order to find a significant meaning underlining all the strategies extracted from the "practical consciousness" of the interviewers as revealed in their report, the author resort to a metaphor. This metaphor helps to: (1) better describe and understand a not adequately treated phenomenon, namely, good results under inadequate structural social and organizational conditions; (2) reveal the logic and the meaning underlining all the strategies adopted to generate results under these unfaithful conditions; (3) name, accordingly to the nature of the managerial transformative social action involved, an open ended class of managerial interventions of a pragmatic sort driven by an ethics of results much common to good managers, that is, the concept of "managerial equalization"; and (4) give back to public administrators, represented by the interviewees, to be incorporated in their "discursive consciousness", something the most effective and experienced public managers already have as tacit knowledge built in their "practical consciousness", and so, help the education and development of new talents. / Ph. D.
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