The study topic undertaken was "Enhanced access for re-entry into education, training is seen to enable women to achieve self-fulfilment and enhance employment opportunities". Thesis Proposition and Study Problem : The topic was undertaken to study groups of women during different stages of education, training to see whether they did achieve self-fulfilment and had better employment opportunities if they did have enhanced access for re-entry into education, training. The study briefly looks at the progress by women chronologically, from the late nineteenth century until today, noting the major changes that have given greater gender eguity within the workplace. Methodology : The study focused on four different case studies; each case study focusing on different women who were at different stages of education, training. The study ensured it also focused on women who had gone into nontraditional roles to gain a greater insight as a result of women being given greater access, whether it has played a role in women having the opportunity to gain greater career opportunities and self-fulfilment as a result. Results : Some of the key results were that if women were given the opportunities of education, training that they were able to achieve self-fulfilment and their employment opportunities were enhanced. It was also evident that women were increasing in numbers to study at university. There were a number of inequalities noted still, although there have been a number of changes in recent times. These changes were also noted, as well as the barriers that are still evident. The study identifies different areas within education/employment whereby there are barriers and inequalities. The changes in training/legislation are also noted. Conclusions : The study is concluded by compiling the results of the four case studies and presenting these as well as other evidence from a variety of sources clarifying the investigation that "Enhanced access for re-entry into education, training is seen to enable women to achieve self-fulfilment and enhance employment opportunities".

Thesis (MPA) --University of Limpopo, 2006 / Introduction: Discrimination against people with disabilities is evident in the social and economic environment. The categories of disabilities that are mostly affected by discrimination are physical, visual, hearing and mental impairment. Aim: The study was aimed at evaluating the employment and integration strategies of persons with disabilities in the Limpopo Department of Agriculture. This was done by evaluating the recruitment and employment methods of persons with disabilities; investigating the level of participation of persons with disabilities in the departmental activities and by evaluating the accessibility of the work environment. Method: The study was a descriptive, quantitative survey design. It described the perceptions of top management and senior management officials on the integration and employment of persons with disabilities into the mainstream of government activities. It described the available integration strategies and policies in the department as well as the physically accessible structures and environment to persons with disabilities. Out of a total of 33 senior managers that were surveyed in this study, only 18 responded. Results: The study revealed negative attitudes and perceptions in the department towards people with disabilities. Persons with physical impairment seem to be the most easily employed at a higher rate than other categories such as the visually impaired and the deaf, this was mainly influenced by the accessibility of adverts. On the other hand, a significant measure appeared to be in place to redress the imbalances in terms of gender. Conclusion: There was a general agreement that the method of recruitment was discriminatory against visual and hearing-impaired people, and therefore Managers must spearhead transformation and equity in their respective branches/sub- branches.

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The role of women has become a central issue in educational debate because of the discrepancy between their representation at the administrative and policy level and their representation at the classroom level. This study identified the factors which aid the success of women in educational administration. By using structured interviews and response analysis the study identifies major facilitaters and barriers to success. The literature review surveys the position of women in educational administration. The study provides information that is crucial to aspiring female educators in individual career planning and is essential to systems in the promotion of Equal Employment Opportunities. Research was undertaken in the Australian Capital Territory and involved Government and Non Government systems.

Magister Educationis (Adult Learning and Global Change) - MEd(AL) / This study examines the relationship between educational attainment and employment advancement among marginalized people in Namibia. It attempts to identify the situational, institutional and dispositional barriers that have stifled the educational progress of OvaHimba and OvaZemba people based in the Kunene region and how these have limited their access to formal employment opportunities and/or employment advancement. Furthermore, it explores the potential of Adult Education to improve the formal educational qualifications of the OvaHimba and OvaZemba adults. Namibia is often lauded as an example of a country which has successfully negotiated the perils of post-independent statehood to take its place as a model citizen in the community of democratic nations. Blessed with relative stability, an abundance of natural resources, and a liberal constitution, Namibia appears to be ideally placed to provide all its citizens with a decent life consisting of access to quality education, healthcare and economic opportunities. Despite this, Namibia education has failed it adult population because of numerous factors. This study identify these factors.

The SA government has identified the craft industry as a key focus area contributing to sustainable development, economic growth and employment opportunities. However the industry faces many challenges such as global competition and lack of resources. More importantly, craft producers in SA cannot access the craft retailer market successfully which limit their financial success. The purpose of this study is to investigate the buyer behaviour of craft retailers in SA. The specific focus of the study is to investigate the buying process followed by craft retailers, to determine the importance of supplier selection criteria used to evaluate suppliers, as well as to determine the sources of information that craft retailers use most often when searching for suppliers. A self-administered survey was conducted among craft retailers and a sample of 233 were realised. The descriptive statistics are reported as well as factor analysis, ANOVA and MANOVA results. Findings indicated that the buying process craft retailers go through are extensive and that certain stages are also more often used than others. No statistical significant differences were found between the types of craft retailers or the years of buying experience and the stages of the buying process. „Product quality‟ was considered the most important supplier selection criteria followed by „product is exciting and attractive‟ and „product styling and design‟. Statistical significant differences were found between different types of craft retailers and the importance they attach to selected supplier selection criteria but no significant differences were found for the years of buying experience. - iv - The results also indicated that craft retailers consult certain information sources more often than others. Information sources were grouped into three factors after the factor analysis: internal and personal information, promotional information and print advertising. The statistical significant differences were found between the different types of craft retailers and their use of promotional information sources but no differences were evident for the other two sources, namely internal and personal and print advertising. The study resulted in a proposed marketing strategy for craft producers to enable them to market their craft products more effectively to crafts retailers. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Marketing Management / unrestricted

Studien avsåg att undersöka funktionsvarierades möjligheter att få en anställning på den svenska arbetsmarknaden baserat på arbetsgivares attityder till att anställa arbetssökande med funktionsvariation inom handel och kontor. Studien genomfördes som en enkätstudie och riktades till arbetsgivare där chefers och annan rekryterande personals attityd till att anställa arbetssökande utifrån tolv typer av funktionsvariationer undersöktes. I enkäten deltog 57 personer varav 30 från kontorsbranschen och 27 från handel. Resultaten indikerade att arbetsgivare generellt hade en negativ attityd till att anställa arbetssökande med funktionsvariationer. Störst sannolikhet att bli anställd hade arbetssökande med “hörselnedsättning” medan arbetssökande med “svåra besvär med dyslexi och/eller dyskalkyli” hade lägst sannolikhet att bli anställd. Studiens slutsats var att arbetssökande med funktionsvariationer hade sämre möjligheter att få en anställning jämfört med arbetssökande utan funktionsvariationer inom branscherna handel och kontor, när andra variabler som kön, ålder och utbildning inte kunde påverka arbetsgivarnas attityder. / The study aimed to investigate disabled persons opportunities to get a job in the Swedish labor market based on employers' attitudes to employing persons with disabilities in trade and offices. The study was a questionnaire study and was aimed towards employers’ attitudes to hiring persons based on twelve types of disabilities. The survey was attended by 57 people, of whom 30 came from the office industry and 27 from trade. Results showed that employers generally had a negative attitude towards hiring persons with disabilities. Persons with "hearing impairment" had the highest probability of being employed, while persons with "severe problems with dyslexia and/or dyscalculia" had the lowest probability of being employed. The conclusion of the study was that people with disabilities had inferior opportunities to persons without disabilities in the industries trade and offices, when other variables such as gender, age and education could not influence employers' attitudes.

This thesis oversees the possibility of employment for people with disabilities in the rural region. It introduces specific employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the Chrudim region. It takes into account the perspective of potential employers in the region. While also identifying specific barriers and fears of employers, when they are determining whether or not to employ people with disabilities. The work is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part is devoted to: describing people with disabilities, the importance of work in human life, the issue of unemployment, the characteristics of the Chrudim region, and employment opportunities for people with disabilities. In the practical part quantitative research strategies are used and in this particular case, it involved the use of questionnaires. Questionnaires were sent to random employers in the area in the hopes of finding clear and unbiased results. Keywords Disability, Employment, Unemployment, Employment opportunities, Discrimination, Rural region

The primary aim of this survey is to: * explore whether there is potential for job-sharing in the South African labour market; * * describe the characteristics of potential job-sharers and to explain why Job-sharing would be an appropriate and feasible solution to unemployment, massive retrenchments, poor quality ofwork life (QWL) and low worker productivity Job-sharing has been used in many developed countries to address a variety of problems at the individual, organisational and national level. These include allowing workers to have a balance between their work and non-work life; to increase worker productivity and QWL and to increase employment opportunities. The literature survey affirms that these problems are prevalent in Africa as a whole and in South Africa specifically. The survey results reveal that the environment in South is Africa is conducive to jobsharing and that slightly over one third of the workers and organisations and two thirds of the jobseekers are willing to job-share. The results of this study also reveals that QWL, productivity and unemployment does influence the willingness to job-share and that approximately 80% of the employees would rather either job-share, work-share or opt for some other alternative than to have retrenchments. Thus by implication, job-sharing would address the problems relating to poor QWL, low worker productivity, fewer employment opportunities, as well as massive retrenchments in South Africa. The study has also explored possible reasons and obstacles to job-sharing and found that whether these are perceived as significantly important or not, depends on whether one is an employer, employee or job-seeker . The job-seekers feel more than others, that there is no reason insurmountable or obstacle preventing the introduction of job-sharing by which to avert their unemployed status. There are also differences in willingness to job-share among subgroups with regard to the industry, area of work, position held in the organisation and the availability of job-sharing positions in the organisation. This thesis reports that there is potential for job-sharing in the South African labour market, to address a variety of problems pertaining to workers, organisations, job-seekers and, therefore, the whole nation at large. / Business Management / D.B.L.