The concept of supply chain is predominant in literature. It offers solutions to keeping costs to a minimum and at an acceptable level of services. Supply chain management represents a significant change in the way that organisations view themselves and has witnessed values created through the integration and coordination of supply, demand and relationships in order to satisfy customers in an effective and profitable manner both in the private and public sectors. Despite the importance of sup ...

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2021-Jun-20 10:08:28

Globalisation exercises a significant impact on public human resource management policies and procedures in the South African public ser-vice. The driving forces of globalisation have affected public human resource management to a large extent, for example, the impact of technology demands different skills and competencies from public officials on all levels. This article examines the impact of globalisation on public human resource management policies and procedures in the South African publ ...

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2021-Jun-20 10:03:19

The 2009-10 public service delivery protests emanating from local community members in South Africa (Burger, 2009), have raised questions with regard to the effective functioning of Community Development Workers (CDW). The CDW Programme has been introduced and collectively overseen by the Department of Public Service and Administration and the Department of Provincial Local Government with the objective of accelerating service delivery. This article aims to critically define and review the ro ...

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2021-Jun-20 10:00:12

The purpose of this article is to look at both the social and the economic impact made by the Zimbabweans living in the Polokwane Municipality of the Limpopo Province. Migration has recently been a critical debate in a national, regional and international context, hence requiring international intervention for the protection of refugees and an intervention binding all countries. The locals and the immigrants have negative attitudes towards each other and conflicts occur between them at variou ...

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2021-Jun-20 09:54:24

Talent management (otherwise known as human capital management) is an integrated strategic and deliberate activity, performed by both private sector and public sector organisations. It directs how organisations source, attract, select, train, develop, retain, promote and deploy employees. Research done on the value of such systems implemented within particular organisations consistently uncovers benefits in these critical economic areas: revenue creation, customer satisfaction, quality, produ ...

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2021-Jun-20 09:45:19

Despite constitutional provisions for traditional leadership in South Africa, traditional leaders have not been clearly recognised since the advent of democracy in 1994. Yet centuries ago, this type of leadership served as part of the history of the natives. In underscoring governmental functions, the 1996 Constitution makes provision for the three spheres of government, namely, national, provincial and local government. However, in some provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal, the king receives a su ...

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2021-Jun-20 09:42:50

The quandary of basic financial management systems and control functioning within the South African municipalities is no hyperbolic matter but a reality that delivers poor results, evident from one financial year to another, yet there is no change in the controls and evaluation of the 'not able to deliver' financial management system. This sphere of government should deliver on the Constitutional mandate as expected by the poor populace. Unfortunately there appears to be no solid fina ...

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2021-Jun-20 09:40:03

This article examines local business environments and their improvement as a foundation for Local Economic Development (LED). The international experience of LED points to the need for public administrators to acknowledge the significance of local business environments. It is contended that enhanced local state-private sector relations are necessary for undertaking reform of local business environments. Recent research surveys of private sector business chambers show that in many parts of Sou ...

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2021-Jun-20 09:32:02

The creation of local economic development agencies (LEDAs) is a result of the South African government's efforts to increase socio-economic benefits in communities. As opposed to national and provincial sector departments, LEDAs as municipal actors, locate the local economic development (LED) agenda in its rightful place, in municipalities. LEDAs counteract LED initiatives imposed from national and provincial sector departments that often generate skewed and distorted development pattern ...

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2021-Jun-20 09:25:07