Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-251).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Bern, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-389).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Bielefeld, 2007. / Academy publication. Includes bibliographical references.

Zugl.: Siegen, Univ., Diss., 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323)

Thesis (DTech( Human Resource Management))--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 2001 / Through this research it is shown that the involvement of human resource management in the transforming local government, which currently functions at a low level in the local authority sector, will become an ever increasing necessity in South Africa. Local authorities could either accept circumstances as they are, or accept the responsibility to change them. In this research the researcher accepted the responsibility to make a contribution towards a possible change by focusing on the contribution that the human resource manager, in more specifically local authorities in South Africa could make in this regard. The change that is envisaged and is being brought about in the South African local government sector with specific reference to the service delivery of the provision, management and control of local government, has led to the establishment of: • human resource management and comprehensive management functions; • participative involvement; • a requirement of new, additional techniques of human resource management for local authorities; and • an essential requirement for increasing employee, councillor and public involvement within local government. The outcome of the abovementioned is an incisive need of improving human resource management and sound labour relations. In order to obtain the aforementioned objectives, qualitative research was used. 5 With this study the research has endeavoured to determine: • why the involvement of human resource management in the transforming local authority sector is important; • what the nature of human resource involvement within local authorities is; • what the role, functions, involvement and methods of human resource managers in the transforming local government entails; and • how the human resource involvement within local authorities can be arranged and what the characteristics of the human resource manager should be.

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This study examines Canada's aging trend, the factors influencing the elderly's withdrawal from the labour force, and the implications of the two trends for planners and policy makers. Canada's population is aging. The absolute and relative number of people 65 and over is projected to increase well into the twenty-first century. Over this same period of time the elderly, defined as those persons 65 and over, are expected to reduce their participation in the labour force. With a greater proportion of elderly in the population and fewer of them working the costs and burdens involved with supporting this segment of the population will increase. It is important, therefore, that planners and policy makers understand why the population is aging, why the elderly are withdrawing from the labour force, and what the possible economic and social implications of these trends are. Based on explanatory models of the elderly's labour force participation constructed mainly by researchers in the United States, a .multiple regression analysis is conducted which attempts to evaluate those variables included in an explanatory equation which accounts for the variance in the elderly's labour force participation rate in Canada. Cross-section analyses are conducted for three years—1961, 1971, and 1976—with data derived principally from Statistics Canada census sources and aggregated at the provincial level. In contrast to studies originating in the United States, the results obtained in this study found pension benefits were not the most significant factor in explaining the decline in the elderly’s labour force participation in Canada. Both the unemployment rate and the occupation chosen by an elderly labour force participant consistently proved to be more significant factors in accounting for the variance in the elderly's labour force participation rate in Canada. The economic and social implications of a society which is aging and one in which an increasing number of elderly are choosing not to work are discussed. The two areas in which future planners and policy makers will face the most pressing problems in terms of funding and program delivery are the public pension and health care services. There will be a number of other areas affected by the increased incidence of elderly retired persons in the population. It is important, therefore, that research be conducted today, at all levels, into the various impacts a large proportionate increase in non-working elderly will have on Canadian society in the future. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

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