Organizational Psychology is the study of people at work. It focuses on comprehending how organisations affect individual behaviour. An Organizational/Industrial Psychology can be defined as “The application of psychological principles, theory and research to the work setting. (Landy & Conte, 2010, p.8). Organisational psychology is devoted to developing strategies to improve organisations. This suggests that Organisational psychologists have an important task to ensure that the workplace is fulfilling
subsequent bankruptcy of ENRON. According to the economist (2002), this scandal pinned the blame for the problems of Enron on the members of the board of Directors, the senior managers of Enron, the auditors of Enron, the bankers of Enron and the Bush administration among other players. The Economist (2002) further stated that “the only missing ingredient on the scandal so far is sex”. The Enron showed the need to reform the accounting and Corporate Governance environment in the USA. It also highlighted loopholes
projects funded by the public sector e.g. South Gauteng High Court project, Norwood Police hostels project, etc. as a result procurement method chosen for a particular project, particularly the public renovation projects, is ought to be expected to play a significant role in minimizing the cost and time overruns. In addition to the procurement method to be chosen, these methods need to match with both the objectives and priorities of the client, which in this case would be the public sector (Hampson and
MARKET-ORIENTED REFORMS IN PUBLIC SECTOR: A CASE STUDY OF LAHORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BACKGROUND New Public Management (NPM), a public sector reforms started from 1980’s onwards. It is formally conceptualized by Hood in 1991. United Kingdom claims to have been its birthplace; many papers and researches providing evidences from UK. These NPM reforms are widespread and the Anglo-American countries and International organizations are among its strong advocates. In many developing countries including
belonging to 5000 Different groups in 90 countries who speak about 4000 languages. Some of these indigenous groups of people include the Arctic, the White Mountain Apache of Arizona, the Yanonami and the Tupi people of the Amazon, the Maasai in East Africa, the Bont people of Philippines to mention but a few. They face various daunting challenges to assert their rights as indigenous people. It says that these indigenous people have had their communities first ravaged by colonialism and then by the activities
effectiveness of the principals in public and private secondary schools in Ondo States. The finding showed that teachers of private schools have high perception of their principals’ pedagogical skill effectiveness than teachers of public schools. Likewise, the study revealed that that there is no significant difference in teachers’ perception of the administrative skill effectiveness of the principals of public and private secondary schools. Teachers of public secondary schools perceived their principals
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction Over the past decades, the urge to increase foreign aid’s effectiveness has motivated numerous empirical studies to identify why aid programmes succeeds or fails. These studies underpinned the donor community’s attempt in the late 1990s to reform aid delivery, shifting from predominantly stand-alone projects and conditionality- led stand- structural adjustment programs toward partnerships and mutual accountability (World Bank, 1998). Besides research
ICTs in Ekurhuleni public libraries. This chapter reviews literature relevant to the study. It sought to give a deeper understanding of what ICTs facilities are used in public libraries, by whom are such facilities used as well as the reasons for the usage of such facilities. In this chapter, various literature related to the study is reviewed in order to put the study in its proper context, by identifying and analysing various issues in the literature that are relevant to the study. The chapter starts
Generation and the effects on the economy of South Africa by NA Potgieter A research proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Business Administration Economics 1B Module Milpark Education 2012 The Lost Generation and the effects on the economy of South Africa by NICOLE AMELIA POTGIETER A research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Business Administration Economics 1B Module at Milpark Education JOHANNESBURG
in 1787 provides the first example of a modern federal constitution (see Madison et al. 1788). As is frequently the case with most theories, the literature on fiscal Introduction 3 federalism has been strongly influenced by the geo-political context in which it originated; namely, the federal systems of North America. This has led to problems relating to its extension to other cases, especially to the nation states of Europe and Asia. A simple example refers to the assignment problem. Fiscal federalism