En parcourant l’histoire de la société iranienne tout au long de XXe siècle, on ne peut qu’être frappé par les transformations sociales, démographiques, politiques et économiques, brutaux et rapides. Partant de ce constat, cette thèse s’efforce de reconstruire la pluralité des formes culturelles légitimes résultant d’un état de crise et d’instabilité durable et structurelle (transformations structurelles dans les institutions socialisatrices, déclassements et reclassements multiples, absencede stabilisation ou d’imposition d’une culture légitime).L’analyse part d’une approche macrosociologique fondée, d’une part sur l’histoire des mutations rapides de la société iranienne pour retracer leurs impacts sur la stratification sociale, notamment la composition des classes dominantes de la société, et d’autre part sur un corpus de données statistiques à l’échelle nationale pour dessiner le schéma de l’espace social iranien où se positionnent différents groupes sociaux caractérisés par leurs capitaux économiques et scolaires, ainsi que par leurs goûts et pratiques culturelles ou leurs orientations religieuses et politiques. En seconde partie, cette thèse s’appuie sur une vingtaine d’entretiens avec des personnes appartenant aux classes dominantes, pour reconstruire leur trajectoire de vie, montrer leurs processus de socialisation au cours d’une histoire faite de ruptures, et mettre en lumière les conditions sociales de construction d’une pluralité des formes culturelles légitimes en Iran. / By looking through the history of Iranian society throughout the twentieth century, we are struck by the brutal and rapid social, demographic, political and economic transformations. Based on this observation, this thesis attempts to reconstruct the plurality of legitimate cultural forms resulting from a state of crisis along with a lasting and structural instability (structural changes in socializing institutions, multiple downgrades and reclassifications of social positions, lack of stabilization orimposition of a legitimate culture).The analysis is founded on a macro-sociological approach, on one hand, based on the history of rapid mutations in Iranian society in order to trace their impact on social stratification, notably the composition of the dominant classes of society, and on the other, grounded on a corpus of statistical data at the national level in order to draw the schema of the Iranian social space where are positioned the different social groups characterized by their economic and educational capital, as well as by their cultural tastes and practices or their religious and political orientations. In the second part, this thesis is based on over twenty interviews with persons who belong to the dominant classes in order to reconstruct their life trajectory, to show their socialization processes during a history of breaks, and to highlight the social conditions of building a plurality of legitimate cultural forms in Iran.

LLM / Department of Mercantile Law / The study critically analyses the concurrent enforceability of restraint of trade and garden leave in South African Labour law. The study seeks to answer the question of whether or not the simultaneous enforceability of restraint of trade agreements and garden leave is reasonable. Designed within a qualitative paradigm primarily based on a critical literature review, the study employs a doctrinal approach to establish the contemporary legal position in respect of the simultaneous enforceability of restraint of trade agreements and garden leave in South African Labour law. The objectives pursued by the study are to mitigate the controversies and clear the confusion relating to the enforceability of restraint of trade agreements; to justify the doctrine of restraint of trade; assess the reasonableness of the simultaneous enforceability of garden leave and restraint of trade; examine the onus of proof in matters dealing with the enforceability of restraint of trade agreements; test the constitutionality of restraint of trade agreements; evaluate the relationship between restraint of trade agreements and garden leave; and propose practical recommendations that can be employed to address identified legal flaws in the context of the topic. Structurally, the study begins with unpacking the background to the research topic, the history, origin and rationality of restraint of trade agreements together with an assessment of their enforceability. It further examines the effect of garden leave on restraint of trade agreements, outlines comparative perspectives on restraint of trade, including aspects relating to garden leave and highlights lessons South Africa may learn from the selected jurisdictions. Finally, the study recommends that South African jurisprudence should be developed to shift the burden of proof to employers to prove reasonableness of garden leave and restraint of trade agreements, to impose an obligation on employers to pay former employees for rendering them jobless and to set a maximum period that an employee can be prevented to compete or be employed by employer’s competitors. / NRF

Cambodia is a destination, transit, and source country for child sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and has become particularly vulnerable due to growing tourism, increasing geographic accessibility, and widespread poverty. In the aftermath of SEA, repeated violations of children's rights and deprivation of their childhood occur. This Minor Field Study was conducted on-site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to examine the main factors that affect the general perception of child victims exposed to SEA, in the opinion of Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) professionals. In addition, it highlights the main issue, raised by APLE staff, regarding the absence of legitimate status of victims of SEA in Cambodia. Finally, it assesses the ideal victim theory’s explanatory power when applied to child SEA victimisation in Cambodia. Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with APLE employees, followed by a thematic analysis. Four main themes were identified: cultural aspects, lack of education, absence of intervention, and offender characteristics. The findings of this study suggest that the assignment of legitimate victim status is highly influenced by cultural aspects and lack of education. This study further identifies the absence of intervention as the key issue of not being assigned legitimate victim status. Finally, the findings suggest that the ideal victim theory overall offers great explanatory value to the absence of legitimate status of child victims of SEA in Cambodia. However, some theoretical limitations are evident. / Kambodja är ett destinations-, transit- och ursprungsland för sexuellt utnyttjande och övergrepp (SEA) av barn. Till följd av växande turism, ökad geografisk tillgänglighet och utbredd fattigdom har barnen i landet blivit särskilt sårbara för SEA. Utsattheten medför upprepade kränkningar av barns rättigheter och berövar dem på deras barndom. Den förevarande mindre fältstudien genomfördes på plats i Phnom Penh, Kambodja. Studien syftar dels till att undersöka vilka huvudsakliga faktorer som påverkar samhällets uppfattningar om barn som utsatts för SEA, enligt anställda på organisationen Actions Pour Les Enfants (APLE). Dessutom ämnar studien, baserat på APLE-anställdas upplevelser, undersöka vilka problem som uppstår till följd av en avsaknad legitim offerroll. Slutligen avser studien att undersöka förklaringsvärdet av den ideala offer-teorin då den appliceras på fenomenet SEA av barn i Kambodja. Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med anställda vid organisationen APLE. Därefter tillämpades en tematisk analys på det insamlade materialet. Fyra huvudteman identifierades: kulturella aspekter, avsaknad utbildning, utebliven intervention och förövares egenskaper. Resultaten av studien tyder på att tilldelningen av den legitima offerrollen i hög grad påverkas av kulturella aspekter och en avsaknad utbildning. Studien fann vidare att utebliven intervention är det främsta problemet som uppstår till följd av en avsaknad legitim offerroll. Slutligen antyder studiens resultat att teorin om ideala offer innehar ett stort förklaringsvärde vid applicering på offer av SEA i Kambodja. Dock framkom vissa teoretiska begränsningar.

M. Tech. (Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences), Vaal University of Technology. / Retailing refers to the activities involved in selling goods or services to the final consumer for personal use as opposed to business purposes. It is a socio-economic system that gets people together to interchange goods and services for a small payment, which matches the final consumers’ needs. In South Africa, the industry has grown by a yearly average of 3 percent in the past eight years and Gauteng, as a province, contributed 26.5 percent to this growth. Therefore, the retail industry has been growing at a very slow rate. Letooane (2013:2) asserts that that there is a need for research in leadership power bases, QWL and how best the needs of employees can be satisfied to improve their intention to stay. In this reard, the primary objective of the study was to examine the relationship between leadership power bases, quality of work life (QWL) and intention to stay among employees at a selected retail outlet in Gauteng province. The research methodology applied to conduct the study was a consolidation of a literature review and an empirical study.The study focused on the work of French and Raven (1959) power sources, namely coercive, legitimate, reward, referent and expert power. It also looked at QWL as the nature of the workforce in retail today is generally very different from the workforce of the past decades. In addition, the study explored how QWL will assist retailers in enhancing their employees’ intention to stay. A quantitative research approach was followed in this study and a simple random probability sampling method was adopted. A structured questionnaire, divided into four sections, was utilised to survey 300 (both male and female) employees from three branches of the selected retail company in the Daveyton township. The pilot study preceded the main survey and the internal consistency reliability was ascertained. Of the 300 questionnaires distributed to the participants, a total of 285 responses were usable for data analysis (response rate of 95 percent). The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 25.0, was used to analyse data into descriptive statistics, reliability and validity analysis, correlations and finally, regression analysis, which was used to test the relationship among the constructs under investigation. The results indicated that coercive power base (β=0.456) and legitimate power base (β=0.210) contribute positively to the prediction of QWL, while reward power indicated a negative prediction of QWL (β= -0.044). Furthermore, the influence of QWL towards employees’ intention to stay was represented by a positive beta weight of (β=0.754). Additionally, all Cronbach’s alpha values ranged from 0.764 to 0.913, (exceeding the threshold of 0.7) thus suggesting that all the items in the scale tap into the same underlying constructs. Results from this research study will assist retailers to increase the QWL levels in their companies by advancing the factors that were identified in this research study. Additionally, these results may enable retail store managers to comprehensively understand how employees perceive power bases and how these employees’ perceptions influence QWL and, subsequently, their intention to stay. The implications of the results are addressed as well as the limitations of the study and future research opportunities are further identified.

Mr Justice Corbett made a substantial contribution to the South African tax law as he delivered several judgements during his long career on the bench. Starting from the lower ranks as a judge he became Chief Justice of South Africa. Precedents set by his judgements are considered important and indicative of the level of South African tax law. This dissertation observes his background, looks at the operations of the tax court in South Africa and examines whether his judgements were cited and applied in subsequent cases as accepted precedent. International case law is referred to, to compare his judgements with comparable international tax law. / Auditing / M. Comm. (Accounting)

This research set out to explore the curriculum experiences of French-speaking students in a private tertiary education institution. The study was qualitative in nature and utilized narrative inquiry and the case study approach. Data-gathering methods included a blend of semistructured interviews, document analysis, participant observation and field notes. Data analysis employed content and thematic analyses. Findings that emerged from the study were seven-fold: First, the academic experiences of French-speaking students from pre-degree to third-year degree programme entailed a rigorous negotiation with the LoLT. They negotiated the pre-degree route to mainstream degree programme due to non-compliance with academic standards set for higher education. Second, French-speaking students negotiated the pre-degree route to mainstream degree programme because their curricula of study, while they negotiated secondary school education in French-speaking countries were not recognized by most South African public universities. Third, French-speaking students experienced a number of hidden curriculum experiences which were not visible but influenced the planned, enacted and assessed curricula. Fourth, the deportment of lecturers was a useful asset. Lecturers were sourced from different sociocultural perspectives of the world. The impact of lecturers’ deportment led to commitment to achieve excellence and dedication towards student learning. Fifth, the use of Zulu, Sotho and sporadic use of Afrikaans languages by lecturers became sociocultural experiences of French-speaking students. The impact of this was felt by French-speaking students when they took a longer time to negotiate transition from French-speaking to English-speaking. The rate at which white lecturers spoke and the unfamiliar accents of black South African lecturers became important aspects of experiences they negotiated at Montana College. Sixth, learning ensues when there is a hybridization of the three sociocultural factors namely language of communication, acculturation to the domain of influence and mediated identity. Seventh, it was found that power relations manifested themselves in different perspectives at Montana College. Lave and Wenger (1991) proposed that power relations exist in the field of education where teachers exercise their roles as facilitators of learning and students see that they are in possession of economic power, by virtue of the fact that they pay fees. Consequently the issues of power relations abound in the form of the “continuity-displacement contradictions” as suggested by Lave and Wenger (1991:115-116). Much new knowledge came to light, especially in terms of the three sociocultural factors (language, acculturation and identity). When these are in a state of redress, there is an emergent learning, depending on the extent of hybridization between the sociocultural factors. The magnitude of learning is conceptualized to depend on the extent of redress or hybridization among the sociocultural factors. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Reverendo Vidal Akaoui.pdf: 1126301 bytes, checksum: 1b4fb12dc91399d75a2c9256389efaf0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-23 / The present thesis try to demonstrate on a esquematic way that the constitutionals principles and rules should be always considerad as a diffuse or collective rights or interests, while abstractively arranged on our legal system, it doesn t matter if its exercices be individualy realized. Also, that any attempt to the Federal and States Constitutions, through the edition of normative acts that with then are incompatible, traslate a true offense to those, because of its transindividual and indivible charactistics. It does the distinction between primary and secondary diffuses and collective rights and interests, where the first ones would be just those that are disposed on a abstractive way on the Federal and States Constitutions, and give the necessary support to the entire national legal system; the secondary, on a different way, are those concretely specified on the diversity of sub-constitutional normative acts, and, even though, should have a collective protection, are resulting of the solid base criated by the primary, which give then the foundation. Also tries to demonstrate, that the unique importance that envolves the concentrate control of constitutionality, which has the nature of a collective action, this roll of legitimateds still not suficient to give the necessary guaranty to our society, specialy because of the political positions that commonly are taken by those who are listed as capable to it. On our vision, the federative principle is extremely weacked by the moment that the institution which the Constitutition entrust the deffense of the legal order and the democracy it self, the Public Attorney Offices, is represented, on the concentrate constitutional control actions, only by the Chief of the Federal Public Attorney, as if he has any kind of hierarchy or ascendancy to the State Attorney General Offices. Because of that, if now a days the Governor of a State or the Representatives of the States Deputies do not process the capable actions to correct a offensive act to a constitutional right, the State Attorney General Office can t do it, just having the right to claim to the Federal Attorney General, witch can or canot embrace the thesis. It is necessary to change the Constitution, to put on the roll of legitimated to iniciate a concentrate control of constitutionality action, the States Attorneys Generals, to pay homage to the federative principle, and on respect to the States population / A presente tese procura demonstrar de forma esquemática que os princípios e regras constitucionais devem ser sempre considerados como direitos e interesses difusos e coletivos, enquanto abstratamente previstos em nosso ordenamento jurídico, ainda que o seu exercício seja realizado de forma individual. Também, que qualquer atentado às Constituições Federal e Estaduais, através da edição de atos normativos com elas incompatíveis, se traduz em verdadeira afronta àqueles, ante sua característica transindividual e indivisível. Faz-se a distinção entre direitos difusos e coletivos primários e secundários, onde estes primeiros seriam justamente aqueles que estão abstratamente dispostos nas Constituições Federal e Estaduais, e que dão o necessário amparo a todo o arcabouço jurídico pátrio; os secundários, por seu turno, são aqueles já concretamente específicos nos vários atos normativos infraconstitucionais, e que são decorrentes da base sólida criada pelos primários, que lhes dão sustento. Procura-se demonstrar, ainda, que, apesar da importância ímpar que envolve o controle concentrado de constitucionalidade, possuidor da natureza de uma verdadeira ação coletiva, o rol de legitimados ainda não é suficiente para dar a garantia necessária à sociedade, notadamente em face dos posicionamentos políticos comumente adotados pela maioria dos que ali estão consignados. Sob nossa ótica, o princípio federativo encontra-se extremamente enfraquecido a partir do momento em que a instituição a quem a Constituição incumbiu a defesa da ordem jurídica e o estado democrático de direito, qual seja, o Ministério Público, está representada, no que pertine às ações de controle concentrado de atos normativos que ofendam a Constituição Federal, apenas pelo Chefe do Ministério Público da União, como se ele tivesse algum tipo de hierarquia ou ascendência sobre os Ministérios Públicos dos Estados. Desta sorte, se hoje o Governador do Estado ou a Mesa da Assembléia Legislativa não ajuizar a medida cabível para corrigir ato lesivo a direito constitucionalmente previsto, não poderá fazê-lo o Ministério Público Estadual, somente lhe restando o direito de representar ao Procurador-Geral da República, que poderá, ou não, abraçar a tese levantada. É premente a necessidade de alteração da Constituição Federal, através de Emenda, de sorte a alargar no rol dos legitimados à propositura das ações que visem o controle concentrado de constitucionalidade, em respeito à população destes entes da Federação

The protection of ownership right and property restitution in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. Abstract The topic of this graduation theses is the protection of property as embodied and provided by European Convention of Human Rights and its authorities. The author also pays attention to how the European Court of Human Rights dealt with number of Czech and Slovak complaints concerning the restitution process taking place after the fall of the communism with purpose to rectify at least some of the last regime's wrongs as to the acts of deprivation occurred before the restoration of democracy. Emphasis is primarily put on Strasbourg authorities case law.

Makt samt organisatoriskt commitment är två väsentliga begrepp gällande ett företags ledarskap och deras anställda. Ledarskapets kärna utgörs av den influens ledargestalten har över sina underordnade och begreppet makt ska för ledaren fungera som ett drivmedel gällande hens influens. Det gäller således för ledargestalter att tillämpa makten i syfte att influera sina anställda mot organisationens uppsatta mål. För att lyckas få de anställda att sträva efter samma mål som organisationen satt upp samtidigt som de ska arbeta för att få kompetent arbetskraft att stanna krävs det av ledaren att hen kan främja organisatoriskt commitment bland de anställda. Syftet med studien är därmed att utifrån positioneringsmakt och kunskapsmakt analysera hur ledare för ett konsultföretag skapar affektivt, kalkylerande och eller normativt commitment hos sina anställda. Då studien avser att inge en djup och grundlig förståelse gällande dess syfte tillämpas en fallstudiedesign med en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi samt en deduktiv ansats. Vidare ämnar studien undersöka ett specifikt fallföretag utifrån vilket studiens primärdata samlats in via tio intervjuer. Intervjuerna har fördelats på åtta av Crabats anställda konsulter, företagets VD samt företagets ägare. För att på ett djupare plan kunna presentera studiens problematisering har en teoretisk referensram utformats vilken behandlar studiens huvudbegrepp samt beskriver övriga relevanta begrepp inom ämnet. Det går inte genom studiens slutsatser att urskiljer vilken form av maktbas som främjar vilket commitment i fallföretaget. Dock går det att konstatera att fallföretaget tillämpar två maktbaser, kunskapsmakt samt positioneringsmakt, vilka i valt fallföretag sammantaget gynnar tre former av commitment, affektivt, normativt samt kalkylerande commitment. Då fallföretaget utgörs av majoriteten män hade det varit intressant om vidare forskning undersökte om ovannämnda maktbaser främjar andra former av commitment i en konsultverksamhet med en majoritet kvinnor. / Power and organisational commitment are two essential concepts regarding a corporation’s leadership and workforce. The core of leadership consists of the influence the leader has over the workforce and the concept of power is to work as a propellant regarding his or hers influence. It thus applies that the leader utilise the power to influence the workforce to work towards the organisation's goals. For the leader to achieve the above and at the same time strive to retain proficient labour it is vital that he or she can enable organisational commitment among the employees. The aim of the study is therefore to analyse how a leader within a consulting firm uses his or her power in order to generate organisational commitment. The study is intended to convey a deep and thorough understanding regarding its aim, therefore we applied a case study design with a qualitative research strategy and a deductive approach. Furthermore, the study intends to examine a specific case company from which the study's primary data has been obtained through interviews with the company’s employees, the company's president and the owner. To be able to present the reader with a deeper understanding regarding the study’s problem discussion a theoretical framework, which addresses the study's main concepts and describes other relevant concepts appropriate to the subject has been developed. We could not based on the study’s conclusions distinguish between which powerbase that benefits which form of organisational commitment. However, it is clear that the case company applies two forms of power bases, knowledge - and the positioning base of power which, in the selected case company collectively promotes three forms of commitment, affective, normative and calculating commitment. Since the case company’s employees are comprised by a majority of men, it would be interesting if further research investigated whether the above-mentioned power bases promotes other forms of commitment in a consultancy with a majority of women employed.

Le droit est devenu de plus en plus illisible et compliqué. Les causes de ce mal juridique sont multiples, il s’agit d’une part, de ce qu’on a appelé une inflation législative où le rythme d’élaboration et de modification des textes juridiques bat tous les records. D’autre part, cette complexité normative a été renforcée par l’apparition de matières juridiques nouvelles faisant appel à des concepts techniques et scientifiques, il s’agit par exemple du droit des nouvelles technologies. Enfin, la crise de la norme juridique est due aussi à la dégradation de la qualité rédactionnelle des textes. Pouvoirs publics et personnes privées s’accordaient pour dénoncer un phénomène d’insécurité juridique. C’est dans ce contexte que le Conseil d’Etat a consacré un principe de sécurité juridique comme moyen de remédier à ce phénomène. Au lendemain de cette consécration la doctrine dans sa majorité estimait qu’il s’agissait d’un principe qui respecte la portée objective de notre droit administratif. Nous avons estimé, avec d’autres, qu’il s’agit en revanche d’un principe inspiré du principe de protection de la confiance légitime. Celui-ci d’origine allemande, et adopté par le droit Communautaire et celui de tous les Etats européens, est de portée subjective. Ainsi nous avons développé l’idée qu’à travers le principe de sécurité juridique, le Conseil d’ Etat consacre un droit public subjectif à la sécurité juridique qui rompt avec cette tradition objective du droit administratif français. En effet, depuis la consécration du principe de sécurité juridique, notre droit administratif prend une tournure subjective. / Law has become increasingly illegible and complicated. The causes of this are multiple, it acts on the one hand, of what one called a legislative inflation where the rhythm of development and modification of the legal texts breaks all the records. In addition, this normative complexity was reinforced by the appearance of new legal matters calling on technical and scientific concepts, such as for example new technology law. Lastly, the crisis of the legal standard is due also to the deterioration of the editorial quality of the texts. Public authorities and individuals agreed to denounce a phenomenon of legal insecurity. It is in this context that the Council of State stated a principle of legal security like means of curing this phenomenon. After this decision, the doctrines in its majority estimated that it was a principle which respected the objective range of our administrative law. With others, we feel that it is principle inspired of the principle of protection of legitimate confidence.This one, of German origin, and adopted by the Community law and that of all the European States, is of subjective range. Thus we developed the idea that through the principle of legal security, the Council of State establishes a subjective public right to the legal security which breaks with this objective tradition of the French administrative law. Indeed, since the principle of legal security is proclaimed, our administrative law takes a subjective turn.