Thesis (DTech (Public Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2008. / The research investigates trends in the employment of people with disabilities within
the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) and develops a normative
model to address the matter of low employment and progression rates of people with
disabilities within the PGWC. The advent of democracy in 1994 in South Africa
witnessed the enshrinement of the fundamental human rights of all citizens,
particularly within previously disadvantaged groups. Yet, in spite of rights being
legislated for people with disabilities, such people within the public service
represented only 0.15% of the total staff complement of the public service
nationwide, as at December 2004, compared to the 2% target legislated in 1995.
The research examines a philosophical and theoretical approach to managing the
employment and retention of people with disabilities within the public service in
Chapter Two, before providing a synopsis of the existing constitutional and
legislative framework that supports access to employment for people with disabilities.
The subsequent Chapters examine trends in the employment of people with
disabilities within the PGWC, in conjunction with a situational analysis of disability in
South Africa. The recruitment and selection practices within the PGWC are then
examined in order to determine whether specific disability actions have been
incorporated into the documentation. Finally, key recommendations follow a
description of the research methodology and the presentation of the most salient
findings of the study.
The proposed normative model incorporates eight sets of criteria jointly derived from
the literature and the empirical survey. The sets of criteria must be put in place for
the achievement of a sustained increase in the employment of people with
disabilities. The findings on disability employment in the PGWC are generalised to
the remaining eight provinces in the country on the basis that the same policy and
procedure documents are regulatory in all nine provinces.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:cput/oai:localhost:20.500.11838/1685 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Morton-Achmad, Derrick |
| Publisher | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/za/ |
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