The aim of the study was to analyze the effect brought about by the
promulgation of the British Local Government Act of 1988 on the maintenance
of parks and recreational services. The Act made it compulsory to local
authorities to expose the maintenance of parks and recreational services to a
tendering process, commonly known as compulsory competitive tendering.
The implementation of compulsory competitive tendering had to be done
between the promulgation of the Act in 1988, and 1994. With regard to this
period, a perception existed that the standard of the administration of the
maintenance of parks and recreational services declined.
The research was done to determine if the implementation of compulsory
competitive tendering on the maintenance of parks and recreational services
could have resulted in a decline in the standard of the administration of the
services, and how it could have happened. It was determined that the motive
of the British Government at the time of implementation of the compulsory
competitive tendering was primarily to save money. The result of the
implementation of compulsory competitive legislation on the maintenance of
parks and recreational services were amongst other things:
- low morale of staff who were pressured to change
- culture changes necessary to comply to compulsory competitive
organisational structures
- legislation that influenced the lives of traditional local authority employees
drastically, and
- the development of a new approach to financial management to comply to
the government's expectations of saving money. / Public Administration / M. A. (Public Administration)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/16921 |
| Date | 01 1900 |
| Creators | Haycock, Eric |
| Contributors | Odendaal, M. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (xi, 138 leaves) |
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