Thesis (MPA.) -- University of LImpopo, 2017 / The Internship programme has been used by many governments and employers throughout the world to integrate academic theory learnt at schools and Universities and practiced in the workplace. The South African government introduced the Public Service Internship Programme(PSIP) in 2002, and one of its objectives was to reduce the high rate of graduates who are unemployable by appointing them as graduate interns for a period of 12 months, thus providing them with the public service skills and experience required by the Public Service in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of the Public Service Internship Programme with regards to its contribution to the employability of graduates: The case of the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment, and Tourism in the Republic of South Africa. The study used the qualitative research method to interview 80 respondents ranging from Executive Management, Senior Management, Middle Management, Junior Management, Operational employees, Mentors and Graduate Interns to solicit their views and understanding on the implementation of the Public Service Internship Programme within the department. The study used content analysis to analyse data obtained from the 80 research respondents. The analysis was made using themes in line with thematic content analysis. The research findings confirmed that Graduate Interns are obtaining the necessary and relevant skills that will make them employable after completing the PSIP. The PSIP imparts Graduate Interns with skills that contribute to their employability in both the public and private sectors. It instils confidence and provides exposure and experience to Graduates Interns to have competitive advantages during job interviews in the public service and the private sector. It is a very useful programme that must be supported and encouraged in the public service as it assisted many to get jobs and reduce the rate of graduate unemployment in South Africa. It is relevant, useful and necessary to deal with the unemployment of graduates. It is successful and must be promoted because most Graduate Interns are employable during and after the completion of the programme. The study made the following recommendations; That all stakeholders must be inducted on PSIP to ensure its successful implementation, mentors must be trained on mentoring and coaching prior to their appointment, Mentoring vi be linked to the key result areas and key performance indicators of employees for it to be recognised in terms of the Performance Management and Development System, PSIP must be monitored and evaluated like all other government programmes, that the assignment of duties to graduates must be in line with their qualifications and their careers, graduate interns should be allowed to attend departmental meetings and functions as part of their learning areas, that those interning on the departmental Human Resources Management and Development be granted access to the PERSAL system as it is an important system in the South African Public Service, exit interviews must be conducted to get feedback from the interns on the implementation of the programme, and that proper allocation of offices or work spaces must be done by the department to enhance and improve the working conditions of the Graduate Interns .

La gestion prévisionnelle des emplois et des compétences est une locution appartenant au vocabulaire gestionnaire ce qui lui confère une dimension organisationnelle indéniable et originelle. En droit la notion bénéficie depuis son apparition dans le Code du travail d'une indéniable publicité bien qu'elle préexistait à cette juridification. Elle garde malgré cela une certaine dose de mystère qui tient en partie aux relations qu'elle a longtemps entretenu avec les licenciements pour motif économique, à la pluralité des thématiques qui la composent ainsi qu'aux évolutions constantes de son régime juridique. Depuis qu'elle est devenue un objet du droit social, elle a bénéficié de multiples enrichissements légaux et jurisprudentiels. Partant, la présente étude, qui commandait une approche d'ensemble de la notion, tend à la détermination des contours de la gestion prévisionnelle des emplois et des compétences du point de vue du droit social. / He management of jobs and skills is a phrase belonging to the manager vocabulary which gives it a distinct and original organizational dimension. By law the concept has since appeared in the Labour Code of undeniable advertising although it existed before this juridification. She keeps nevertheless a certain dose of mystery partly due to the relationship it has long maintained with redundancies, with the plurality of themes that compose it and the constant changes in its legal system. Since it became an object of social law, she received multiple legal and jurisprudential enrichment. Accordingly, this study which commanded an overall approach to the concept, tends to determine the contours of the management of jobs and skills of the labor law perspective.

Santé et sécurité au travail, prévention des risques professionnels (risque routier, risques psychosociaux), intensification du travail… Autant de questions essentielles auxquelles l’entreprise est confrontée. Y répondre suppose souvent le croisement des regards et des compétences. Les services de santé au travail, qui ont pour mission exclusive d’éviter toute altération de la santé des travailleurs du fait de leur travail, y concourent. Acteurs de terrain, ils devraient constituer la pièce maîtresse du système de santé au travail ; ils sont pourtant victimes d’un désamour collectif. La délicate coexistence des concepts d’aptitude et de prévention y contribue. L’institution a, depuis 1942, connu de profondes métamorphoses nées, pour nombre d’entre elles, de la conjugaison, parfois source de tensions, du droit du travail et du droit de la santé publique. Le rattachement de l’institution, lors de la Libération, au ministère du Travail a longtemps scellé la domination du droit du travail. La montée en puissance du droit de la santé publique la remet progressivement en cause. La réforme du 20 juillet 2011 en a offert illustration. L’analyse des rapports entre droit du travail et droit de la santé publique invite à proposer de nouvelles logiques au service de la santé des travailleurs fondées sur l’idée - qui est aussi un constat - selon laquelle le service de santé au travail n’est pas un prestataire parmi d’autres : il participe de l’intérêt général. / Health and security at work, occupational risk prevention (road risk, psychosocial risks), intensification of labor conditions… A number of questions that the enterprise has to take into account. Answering them assumes a variety of points of view and skills. Occupational health services, that have the exclusive mission to prevent any worker health alteration occurring from their work, contribute to this debate. Due to their unique position, as a field actor, they should be the master piece of the occupational health system ; these services are, however, victim of a collective disaffection. The delicate combination of the “medical fitness for work” concept and the occupational risk prevention concept contributes to this disaffection. Since 1942, the institution has seen deep metamorphoses, a number of them appearing from the combination (sometimes being a cause for tension) of the labor law and the public health law. After the Liberation, the incorporation of the institution to the Ministry of Labor, sealed a long domination of the Labor law. The growing power of the Public Health has been jeopardizing progressively this domination. The reform dated 20th July 2011 illustrates this change of balance. The analysis of the links between the Labor Law and the Public Health Law suggests to propose a new paradigm for the sake of the workers’ health, based upon the idea – which is also a fact – that the occupational health service cannot be compared to other providers : this service contributes to the general interest.