Call number: LD2668 .T4 1948 V36 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 C34 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 L49 / Master of Arts

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 S72 / Master of Landscape Architecture

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 K83 / Master of Science

LD2668 .T4 1962 P63

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are part of information systems on which organisations depend when conducting business. An ERP system offers useful functionality in the smooth running of any organisation. This dissertation investigates the impact of ERP implementation at SASSA North West Regional Office. It highlights problems of the current ERP system by delineating the weaknesses and pitfalls. The relevant literature has been visited and has served as a primary data that adds value to the dissertation. Collation of the relevant data is followed by a discussion of the employee perception of the impact of ERP implementation. The relative lack of research of impact on ERP implementation is the primary impetus of this study. The sample was drawn from SASSA North West Regional Office employees who were cooperative in the execution of the study. As a result of this. the research on the subject has moved beyond the limited confines of ERP implementation to focus more on the impact of the ERP system. ERP system is focused on standardisation and synchronisation of information as a result of improved organizational efficiency, but unfortunately problems with the ERP system can create challenges and dissatisfaction among the end users, resulting in failure to deliver the anticipated benefits. The findings of this study reveal ed that there is de ficiency in the ERP system; employees are worried about data loss when they use the system, find system errors, experience difficulty in expotiing data, and are not satisfied with the quality of output from ERP system. SASSA management should explore opportunity to ensure that the employees are trained to be familiar with the ERP system, improve system reliability, reduce possible system errors, and look at the conclusion and recommendations made in this dissertation. / Thesis (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2012

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence and level of parental involvement in the FET phase in Greater Delareyville and to identify the causes of poor parental involvement in learning and teaching. Parents have capabilities and responsibilities of creating vibrant learning areas to promote learners' performance. On the other hand, it is believed that a child, who has not developed any sense of security and competence at home, will fail to explore his/her world and develop a sense of curiosity that is essential for learning and teaching. It is further noted that situational analysis is the best effort to be carried out by parents to ensure that the environment/context in which the children learn is appealing and attractive to fulfill their needs. The problem is while parents should be interested at all costs in the life of their children, watch their moves, guide, advice them regularly, control their work and ensure that they are free to do their work without disturbance, many parents seem not to be interested. This also affects the children and parents of schools in the Greater Delareyville Area. In other instances, teachers blame parents for their lack of interest in their children's education. Data was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. A computer aided statistical analysis was employed to compute the results of the study. The population for the study was drawn from the secondary schools of the Greater Delareyville APO. Out of the 200 secondary schools in the Greater Delareyville APO. 50 schools were randomly selected for the study. From each of the 50 randomly selected secondary Greater De!areyville APO: a principal, deputy principal, departmental head and an educator were requested to complete the questionnaire. The sample of (N=200) was composed of a total of (4 ) respondents from each of the 50 randomly selected secondary schools in the Greater Delareyvile APO. From the findings of the empirical study and literature review, it is revealed that parental mvolvement in the teaching and learning should be effective. !t !s r.ooed ~1:2: by implementing vaiious decisons made by the committee developed by schools, parents will be more involved in the teaching and learning of their children as they feel that their decisions are seriously considered. The following key words are important in the study as they sum up the writer's ideas in his work. They are thus briefly explained in terms of how they relate to one another in order to reflect a concrete topic of research. Parental involvement is a broad term that includes several forms of participation in education and with the schools in which parents can support their children's schooling by attending school functions and responding to school obligations such as parents- teacher conferences. The primary aim of this involvement is to improve their children's schoolwork, providing encouragement, arranging for appropriate study time and space, modelling desired behaviour, monitoring home-works and actively tutoring their children at home. (Cotton & Wikeland, 2009; 235) Learning is an activity in which the person being taught actively wishes to benefit from the teaching and absorbs particular learning content or by constructing meaningful and structured information in his or her own mind. As acts of teaching and learning are thus polymorphous, indicating that they take many forms (Van Heerden , Van der Merwe, Grobler and Loggerennberg; 2004: 61) Teaching is an act of appropriately displaying some subject matter with the intent that someone learns it. fcl phase refers to Further Education and Training made of various providers such as senior secondary school, technical colleges, National Government Organisations, private training centres, private companies, industry training centres and community colleges, (Policy Document, 1997: 9). However, this study focuses on parental involvement in high schools. / Thesis (M. Ed) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2012

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence and level of parental involvement in the FET phase in Greater Delareyville and to identify the causes of poor parental involvement in learning and teaching. Parents have capabilities and responsibilities of creating vibrant learning areas to promote learners' performance. On the other hand, it is believed that a child, who has not developed any sense of security and competence at home, will fail to explore his/her world and develop a sense of curiosity that is essential for learning and teaching. It is further noted that situational analysis is the best effort to be carried out by parents to ensure that the environment/context in which the children learn is appealing and attractive to fulfil their needs. The problem is while parents should be interested at all costs in the life of their children, watch their moves, guide, advice them regularly, control their work and ensure that they are free to do their work without disturbance, many parents seem not to be interested. This also affects the children and parents of schools in the Greater Delareyville Area. In other instances, teachers blame parents for their lack of interest in their children's education. Data was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. A computer aided statistical analysis was employed to compute the results of the study. The population for the study was drawn from the secondary schools of the Greater Delareyville APO. Out of the 200 secondary schools in the Greater Delareyville APO. 50 schools were randomly selected for the study. From each of the 50 randomly selected secondary schools in the Greater Delareyville APO: a principal, deputy principal, departmental head and an educator were requested to complete the questionnaire. The sample of (N=200) was composed of a total of (4 ) respondents from each of the 50 randomly selected secondary schools in the Greater Delareyville APO. From the findings of the empirical study and literature review, it is revealed that parental involvement in the teaching and learning should be effective. It is hoped that by implementing various decisions made by the committee developed by schools, parents will be more involved in the teaching and learning of their children as they feel that their decisions are seriously considered. The following key words are important in the study as they sum up the writer's ideas in his work. They are thus briefly explained in terms of how they relate to one another in order to reflect a concrete topic of research. Parental involvement is a broad term that includes several forms of participation in education and with the schools in which parents can support their children's schooling by attending school functions and responding to school obligations such as parents- teacher conferences. The primary aim of this involvement is to improve their children's schoolwork, providing encouragement, arranging for appropriate study time and space, modelling desired behaviour, monitoring home-works and actively tutoring their children at home. ( Cotton & Wikeland, 2009; 235) Learning is an activity in which the person being taught actively wishes to benefit from the teaching and absorbs particular learning content or by constructing meaningful and structured information in his or her own mind. As acts of teaching and learning are thus polymorphous, indicating that they take many forms ( Van Heerden , Van der Merwe, Grobler and Loggerennberg; 2004: 61) Teaching is an act of appropriately displaying some subject matter with the intent that someone learns it. FET phase refers to Further Education and Training made of various providers such as senior secondary school, technical colleges, National Government Organisations, private training centres, private companies, industry training centres and community colleges, (Policy Document, 1997: 9). However, this study focuses on parental involvement in high schools. / Thesis (M.Ed) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2012

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are part of information systems on which organisations depend when conducting business. An ERP system offers useful functionality in the smooth running of any organisation. This dissertation investigates the impact of ERP implementation at SASSA North West Regional Office. It highlights problems of the current ERP system by delineating the weaknesses and pitfalls. The relevant literature has been visited and has served as a primary data that adds value to the dissertation. Collation of the relevant data is followed by a discussion of the employee perception of the impact of ERP implementation. The relative lack of research of impact on ERP implementation is the primary impetus of this study. The sample was drawn from SASSA North West Regional Office employees who were cooperative in the execution of the study. As a result of this, the research on the subject has moved beyond the limited confines of ERP implementation to focus more on the impact of the ERP system. ERP system is focused on standardisation and synchronisation of information as a result of improved organizational efficiency, but unfortunately problems with the ERP system can create challenges and dissatisfaction among the end users, resulting in fai lure to deliver the anticipated benefits. The findings of this study revealed that there is deficiency in the ERP system; employees are worried about data loss when they use the system, find system enors, experience difficulty in exporting data, and are not satisfied with the quality of output from ERP system. SASSA management should explore opportunity to ensure that the employees are trained to be familiar with the ERP system, improve system reliability, reduce possible system errors, and look at the conclusion and recommendations made in this dissertation. / Thesis (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2012