South African universities have embarked upon a wide range of initiatives to foster and acclimatise to new social development needs of the society. A significant area of change involved implementation of employment equity. This study investigated the manner in which universities manage employment equity.The composition of staff in higher education institutions fails to reflect the demographic realities of South Africa.As a result, black people and women are still severely under-represented, especially in senior academic management positions. Universities are slowly, but steadily redirecting their student bodies and staff to reflect the demographics of South African society applying fragmented effort and piecemeal approach. The “as is” statistical reports obtained from the Department of Labour were used to substantiate the progress being made in the selected universities. Quantitative research methods were employed to collect data. University of Pretoria, University of Witwatersrand, and Free State University were selected as the population and the academic managers (Heads of Departments, Directors of Schools, and Deans of Faculties) as the sample of the study. The study finds that white males still dominate in the universities and white females are adequately represented, particularly in the professional and academic categories. The academic managers responded less positively on retention strategies for academic staff, especially for the designated groups and the functionality of employment equity awareness campaigns. The study also outlined the success of employment equity factors that the academic managers indicated, such as their loyalties to the institutions, prospects of career development, and collegial relations. The study recommended proficient leadership to drive the employment equity process, development of employment equity strategy with reasonable goals, diversity management, retention strategy, and vigorous employment equity awareness. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

Unter Diversity (dt.: Vielfalt) wird die Heterogenität und Diversifizierung sozialer Lebenslagen und sozialer Zugehörigkeiten verstanden, die in Folge von unter anderem Migrationsbewegungen, veränderten Geschlechterbeziehungen und der Pluralisierung von Familienformen in westlichen Gesellschaften zunehmen bzw. stärker thematisiert werden als zuvor. Dabei ist eine Lesart vorherrschend, die Diversity als gesellschaftliche und besonders als ökonomische Ressource, als Potenzial, betrachtet.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

This thesis explores barriers to the establishment of trust needed for high performing teams due to inequality in the context of a global economy. Postcolonial Theory is introduced to illustrate how inequality is a key aspect of diversity in the current context of the global workplace. Different philosophies underlying the values and norms in organizations are examined to make sense of contemporary approaches to diversity management in terms of how power, difference, and identity are addressed. This provides an understanding of the context of current team development praxis in working with diversity. Using autoethnography, the author tells personal stories of working in diverse teams to convey the complex ways in which power, difference, and identity coalesce in real-life experience. Some theoretical foundations are developed for facilitating the building of team trust in contexts with different philosophical approaches to diversity. Addressing social justice in Organization Development work is considered.

This thesis explores barriers to the establishment of trust needed for high performing teams due to inequality in the context of a global economy. Postcolonial Theory is introduced to illustrate how inequality is a key aspect of diversity in the current context of the global workplace. Different philosophies underlying the values and norms in organizations are examined to make sense of contemporary approaches to diversity management in terms of how power, difference, and identity are addressed. This provides an understanding of the context of current team development praxis in working with diversity. Using autoethnography, the author tells personal stories of working in diverse teams to convey the complex ways in which power, difference, and identity coalesce in real-life experience. Some theoretical foundations are developed for facilitating the building of team trust in contexts with different philosophical approaches to diversity. Addressing social justice in Organization Development work is considered.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Submitted by MARILIA ORTIZ (marisportiz@gmail.com) on 2014-06-27T19:25:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Marília ARQUIVO ÚNICO_FINAL_versãoprotocolo.pdf: 2661604 bytes, checksum: 6462653b9da04a634cbbda5a495f1500 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by PAMELA BELTRAN TONSA (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2014-06-27T19:28:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Marília ARQUIVO ÚNICO_FINAL_versãoprotocolo.pdf: 2661604 bytes, checksum: 6462653b9da04a634cbbda5a495f1500 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-27T19:29:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Marília ARQUIVO ÚNICO_FINAL_versãoprotocolo.pdf: 2661604 bytes, checksum: 6462653b9da04a634cbbda5a495f1500 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-11 / This dissertation discusses the effects of competition in the senses involving affirmative action policies to promote equality of opportunity and treatment between women and men in the formal workplace. To do so, it takes as the object of research the Equality Program of Gender and Race, seeking to reveal the ideas and actions that shapes and moves their intentionality in the Secretariat of Policies for Women (SPM) of the federal government – which is the institution responsible for this policy. The primary sources of the analysis here produced are the narratives of key actresses who participated in the design and implementation of the Program. It was used the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a methodology and the epistemic context of languages of “affirmative action” and “diversity management” to locate the discursive fields of the accessed narratives. The comprehension of senses is founded on theoretical contributions to the organizational studies that aim to reveal the ideological materiality behind the speeches. Based on Thoenig’s work, (2007) this paper analyzes how the interdependence between different internal and external organizational boundaries to SPM mobilizes the construction of 'standard' that underpins the Equality Program of Gender and Race. Additionally, utilizing the contributions of Crozier (1967), it was shown the "zones of relevant uncertainty" hanging over the program around decisions taken by the management of SPM. The study suggests that the Pro-Gender Equity Program and Race - taken as a highlighted solution by SPM to dialogue with the formal sector in regarding to the importance of promoting equality of opportunity and treatment in the workplace - negotiates the reverse of its purpose in the long term. Among the reasons for this effect would be the difficulty of the Program to incorporate its priority audience (large corporations) and its contribution to strengthening the speech from parts contrary to the ideology of affirmative action on gender and race in the field of work. / Esta dissertação discute os efeitos da competição sobre os sentidos que envolvem as políticas afirmativas em prol da igualdade de oportunidades e tratamento entre mulheres e homens no mundo do trabalho formal. Para tanto, toma como objeto de pesquisa o Programa Pró-Equidade de Gênero e Raça, buscando revelar as ideias e ações que estruturam e movem sua intencionalidade na Secretaria de Políticas para as Mulheres (SPM) do governo federal – instituição responsável pela política. A fonte prioritária das análises aqui produzidas são as narrativas de atrizes-chave que participaram da concepção e da implementação do Programa. Utiliza-se a Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD) como metodologia e o contexto epistêmico de “ações afirmativas” e de “gestão diversidade” para localizar os campos discursivos das narrativas acessadas. A compreensão de sentidos é fundamentada com base em aportes teóricos afeitos ao campo de estudos organizacionais com vistas a revelar a materialidade ideológica por trás dos discursos. Com base no trabalho de Thoenig (2007) analisou-se de que forma a interdependência entre diferentes campos organizacionais internos e externos à SPM mobiliza a construção do padrão que fundamenta o Programa Pró-Equidade de Gênero e Raça. Complementarmente, utilizando as contribuições de Crozier (1967) foram evidenciadas as “zonas de incerteza pertinentes” que pairam sobre o Programa em torno de decisões tomadas pelas gestoras da SPM. O estudo sugere que o Programa Pró-Equidade de Gênero e Raça – tido como solução destacada pela SPM para dialogar com o setor formal a respeito da importância de promover a igualdade de oportunidades e tratamento no mundo do trabalho – agencia o sentido inverso daquilo que se propõe a mobilizar no longo prazo. Entre as razões para isso estão a dificuldade do Programa para incorporar o seu público-alvo prioritário (as grandes corporações) e a sua contribuição para o fortalecimento do discurso de setores contrários à ideologia das políticas de ação afirmativa de gênero e raça no mundo do trabalho.

The main aim of this study was to develop a diversity management content model based on the organisational team sport intervention and to compile a process model to implement organisational team sport in an organisation in nine financial organisations in Gauteng, South Africa. The diversity constraints relevant in this study were age, gender, race, religious beliefs, physical abilities, ethnicity, generation gaps, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical abilities, education, income, political beliefs and income. The study was conducted among 63 sport participants and nine sport coordinators employed at nine financial organisations in Gauteng, South Africa. The data were collected by means of focus group interviews with sport participants and individual interviews with sport coordinators. The results indicate that organisational team sport interventions as a diversity management initiative do have benefits for the employees (i.e. the employees learn more about and from one another, communicate openly, become friends, trust and respect one another, are able to work together in a team, have equal opportunities and there is less stereotyping/discrimination) and for the organisation (i.e. productivity, the company is able to achieve its goals, employees are more cohesive and able to work together, there is creativity, new ideas are generated and client service improves). The findings of this study contribute valuable new knowledge to the literature on the diversity management content model based on organisational team sport interventions because no studies have been conducted on an organisational team sport intervention model that can be utilised as a diversity model in organisations. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D. Com.

This thesis is following up a concept of diversity management, in great detail we are talking here about age management, which is human resources management with respect to age and ability of the employee. The theoretical part deals with management of diversity in work teams, defines age management as the possibility of adapting the organization to the needs of aging employees. Highlights the demographic development of the society, bringing us near to age spread of the teachers in schools in the Czech Republic. The empirical part describes in detail the age management tools as suitable instrument for adapting the working conditions for the employees of age 50+. It contains three sub-surveys in three kindergartens, three Primary Schools and three Elementary Art Schools in Prague. Based on semi-structured interviews with the directors and also on answering questionnaires about the age management and the utilization of its tools in between the group of pedagogues of age 50+ and the group of operational staff of age 50+ at the surveyed schools compares the possibility of introducing the instruments of the age management to schools with needs of employees of age 50+. The aim of this work is to describe and compare the current state of use of the age management elements in kindergartens, Primary Schools...