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The inception of democracy in South Africa required that all the people of the nation be integrated into a single society. This implies that people brought with them their individual, cultural and normative values into the integrative process. The education system is one such area that has felt the impact of this diversity. In his State of the Nation address to parliament on 25 June 1999, President Mbeki outlined the critical priorities for the nation (Dept of Education, 2000: 6) and questioned whether our education system was fulfilling the purpose of preparing people for citizenship and nationhood. The success of society, according to President Mbeki is dependent upon people working together to build the success of the nation. The Minister of Education in his attempt to ensure that education aligns itself with meeting the national agenda, presented the strategic plan for the Department of education, embraced symbolically in the word “Tirisano”– meaning to work together to build a better nation. The critical factor for success seems to be the need to take action together towards an agreed upon purpose. When formal state structures had to undergo change, symbols (such as Tirisano) were often adopted to rally people around the ideal of a traditional society. People could be unified through pure and solid values (Rose, 1985). It appears that to a large extent, the success of the nation depends upon all people engaging themselves in purposeful labour (or work). Unemployment, or the lack of work, has been cited as a depleting agent in society. Whenever we work, our central life values infiltrate our actions, inextricably colouring our behaviours. The values we associate with work represents a large part of who we are as individuals (Furnham,1990). It would appear that people tend to group together when similar values pertaining to work can be identified as common to all. By the same token one could find people grouping because the characteristic feature is the lack of work. / Prof. B.R. Grobler

M.Phil. (Labour Relations) / The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Aids in the workplace from a legal point of view and to isolate some of the most important areas where legal regulation could become problematical. In general it was found that the best way to deal with Aids is to try and prevent it by eliminating ignorance as far as .possible and to bring the disease into the open by means of the early distribution of facts through proper education and counselling and especially the formulation and implementation of a sympathetic Aids policy. This should prevent litigation on the basis of the unfair labour practice concept in the industrial court to a large extent. The legal position regarding problem areas such as confidentiality, testing, the value and regulation of screening, the freedom to employ, dismissal, termination and safety was analysed both in terms of existing South African law and also by comparison with developments internationally. It was found that a high premium is placed on security of employment and that Aids victims should not be discriminated against, but treated objectively like other cases of serious illness.

M.Phil. / The objective of this study was to explore a group of key employees’ experiences and perceptions at the Government Funded Organisation (GFO) of the service performance of the GFO they work for, as well as to develop a social tool –a model – that could be used to help both the public fulfil its role of developing workable strategies aimed at ensuring that they deliver services according to their mandate. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods (mixed method approach) was used in this study. The existing quantitative instrument was buttressed by the empirically derived qualitative insights to form an instrument that was later distributed to all GFO employees with a view to developing a “mixed method model” of leadership work ethic for improved organisational performance for the institution concerned. During the qualitative phase of this study interviews were conducted using an exploratory theory approach. Eight executive members at the level of a Director General (DG) and Deputy Directors General (DDG) were interviewed. The result of the interviews was a qualitatively derived prototype of interrelated concepts in the form of a work ethic model, consisting of rich descriptive data which was carefully analysed using an exploratory theory methodology (Glaser & Strauss, 2007 and Daniels, 2009). This means the development of theory that is derived from an analysis of qualitative data. The computer assisted data analysis tool, Atlas, ti was used to support the qualitative data. The second phase of the study was conducted by distributing a questionnaire to 549 employees of the GFO. From the 549 questionnaires emailed to all employees, 349 were completed and returned, thus constituting a response rate of 76.5%. The questionnaires returned were deemed adequate for conducting a factor analysis. A first level factor analysis v was accordingly conducted on intercorrelation matrix of the 10 theoretical dimensions. A second level factor analysis on a sub-score intercorrelation matrix followed and resulted in six (6) factors being extracted. Iterative item analysis then yielded acceptable metric properties for each dimension and a Cronbach alpha coefficient ranging between 0.611 and 0.697, which was deemed a reasonable acceptable scale reliability for the model. To get at the desired model, the findings of the phases of the mixed method approach were synthesised and interrelated where data from the quantitative phase played a significant role to data from the qualitative phase. The derived model consists of the inner core and the outer core. The elements of the outer core which were qualitatively derived by means of exploratory theory provided a description of the discussion and gave the research participants a say in the inquiry. The elements of the inner core, on the other hand, were elicited through deductive reasoning and gave the model a qualitative exploration through the use of factor analysis. These elements included amongst others, leadership, leadership work ethic, quality management, organisational strategy, strategic management, organisational learning, organisational structure and organisational performance. The elements of the outer core were identified as observing conventions, behavioral traits, reward and recognition, time at work, self-worth and responsibility and time management. The results of the two methods were thus integrated into a model called the New Work Ethic Model (NWEM).