A research report submitted to the Faculty of Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Management. / Current political changes in local government will necessitate the implementation of
affirmative action programmes. Successful implementation is vital to ensure peace
and stability at local government level. The main purpose of this study was to
examine control options for affirmative action in local government.
The research was conducted by means of two research methods, namely documentary
study on eight policy documents and survey questionnaires from 152 people involved
in local government. It is interesting to note that the results of these methods were
highly complementary.
The documentary study and survey questionnaire results revealed a high degree of
consensus on union involvement in the development of affirmative action policies and
programmes. Furthermore, the enforcement of affirmative action by means of
agreement between management and the trade unions was well received by all
occupation groups in the study. Councillors and officials in particular, had no
difficulty with shop steward involvement in the implementation of affirmative action,
The study revealed that council officials and councillors are not in favour of
government involvement in enforcing affirmative action policies and programmes ..
At best, negotiated guidelines on affirmative action are fairly acceptable. The use
of quotas and/or fines was unacceptable to the various parties.
The nature of the research was exploratory and took the form of theory building as
opposed to theory testing. For the first time in South Africa, an attempt was made
to assess how best control systems for affirmative action policies and programmes
could be implemented in local government. The input from key stakeholders in local
government made it possible to develop a model that could he used to control
affirmative action policies and programmes. / AC2017
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/22041 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Cain, Charley Fred |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | Online resource (128 leaves), application/pdf |
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