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Factors contributing to occupational stress in student support staff in a Further Education and Training (FET) College in the Southern Cape

  • Authors: De Klerk, Ulricha
  • Subjects: Work -- Psychological aspects , Job stress -- South Africa -- Western Cape , College students -- South Africa -- Western Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:10085 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020806
  • Description: The main purpose of this study is to explore the factors that contribute to occupational stress as experienced by the Student Support staff in a Further Education and Training (FET) College in the Southern Cape. The Student Support staff has displayed many symptoms of stress over the past few years. This in turn has led to absenteeism, change in staff temperament, their feelings towards the College, motivation levels and a significant change in the staff’s day to day operations. Although the Head of Department for Student Support Services has engaged with the staff on numerous occasions to discuss the reasons for their experience of stress, no substantial reasons could be established in order to make the necessary changes in the department. No interventions that have been implemented to date have relieved the staff’s experience of stress. The researcher chose to use a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design to gain insight into the situation or phenomenon in order to identify the factors contributing to occupational stress and to identify measures that can be implemented to reduce occupational stress in the Student Support staff. The participants in this research included at least 10 Student Support staff within the Student Support Services Department at a Further Education and Training College in the Southern Cape. Purposive sampling was used in this research study. Interviews will continue until data saturation is achieved. The staff members must have been employed for at least one year in the Student Support Services Department. The researcher will make use of semi-structured interviews, observations and field notes. The data will be systematically collected and meanings, themes and general descriptions of the experience analysed within the specific context (de Vos, Strydom, Fouche & Delport, 2005). The researcher will make use of Tesch’s method of analysis, and use Guba’s strategies for ensuring Trustworthiness. The researcher will apply the ethical considerations of confidentiality, informed consent, ethical approval from relevant institutions, avoidance of harm to participants, truthfulness and the debriefing of participants when conducting this study. The findings were reported as three major themes and subthemes. The three major themes were; Student support staff identified several factors that contributed to occupational stress, Student support staff identified the effect that occupational stress has on them, Student support staff offered suggestions that the college could implement to reduce occupational stress. These themes were discussed and analysed in-depth.
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Factors impacting the introduction of information technology usage in netball coaching

  • Authors: Daniell, Janine
  • Subjects: Information technology , Netball -- Coaching
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: vital:9828 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020878
  • Description: With the growth in the use of technology in sports, there has been an improvement in sporting performances. Some may argue that the two go hand in hand, while others will write it off as coincidence. Nevertheless the use of technology in sport is seen on a daily basis. Cricket uses Hotspot, tennis uses Hawk-Eye and rugby uses slow motion video replays. In these sports codes, technology is already an aid to umpires. Little is known, however, about the technologies used to assist coaches in sports codes such as netball. This study investigated the factors impacting the introduction of information technology in the coaching of netball. The study commenced with using the term technology in the broader sense of the word to gain an understanding from netball coaches as to how technology could be incorporated into the sport. It was later narrowed down more specifically to computer technologies. The investigation was done at the Spar National Netball Championships in 2012, where coaches were surveyed about the preparation for the tournament of the provincial teams. The surveys included questions to coaches regarding the technologies used in preparation for a national tournament. The results obtained from the coaches were used to identify the current technologies used. Interviews were conducted after the analysis of the initial results to probe into the potential use of social media as a tool to assist coaches. Based on the results of the study, a number of factors that impact on the introduction of technology in the coaching of netball were identified. The factors and basic guidelines were validated through expert focus groups. Based on the findings from the experts, the factors and guidelines were refined. It is envisaged that the findings from this research can be used to assist netball coaches in deciding how to introduce the use of information technology into the sport.
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FINAL THESIS - DEOGRACIOUS.pdf

  • Authors: Phakama
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25034 , vital:63900
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Foreword for the programme for the intervarsity rowing regatta 1978

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7363 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017243
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Genetically modified (GM) maize cultivation by smallholders in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa :|beffects on target and non-target organisms and adoption challenges

  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/4770 , vital:28511
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Governor's Keep

  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/21602 , vital:22953 , PIC/M 149 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
  • Description: The note on the back reads: “Governor’s Keep Fire [?] Tower. Cory: Rise of SA. Vol.iv.p.371.”
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Honourable John Montagu

  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/21558 , vital:22949 , PIC/M 148 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
  • Description: It is a photograph of a drawing on stone done by J H Lynch from a daguerreotype by Kijsurn. The Note on the back reads: “Cory: The Rise of SA. Vol. iv. P. 257. Hon John Montagu fr. Lithograph by J.H. Lynch. (From Newman’s biographical mansion of Montagu)
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HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ARE MUCH MORE THAN HOUSING: TOWARDS TRANSFORMATIVE THEORY AND PRACTICE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

  • Authors: Mbanga, Sijekula
  • Subjects: HUMAN SETTLEMENTS -- PRACTICE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ARE MUCH MORE THAN HOUSING: TOWARDS TRANSFORMATIVE THEORY AND PRACTICE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE , Lectures
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/66614 , vital:76108
  • Description: While housing is not just about houses, human settlements are much more than housing. For, over many centuries, from the origin of things, human settlements have continued to define people’s existence. They are places where people live, learn, work, and recreate. However, the lack of integration of concerns from various disciplines and professions, in the making and remaking of spaces and places, has been the source of enduring maladies that confront modern-day cities. These urban deficiencies have increasingly become amplified and sophisticated due to the constantly shifting nature and character of settlement patterns and forms. On the other hand, scholars, policymakers, and professionals have been at pain, attempting to yield coherent analytical models that aid explain the pathology of perpetually changing human settlements, including identifying the forces that drive change in the histories of human settlements across the local, national, and regional landscapes. Some of the major contributing factors to settlement pattern changes, as cited by various scholars, at different times, include colonialisation, war and conflicts, natural disasters, land (re)production, social and economic policy choices of states, and formal government systems that execute choices that have been made. The cumulative effect of the factors that result in changing human settlement patterns have manifested by population movements, and many a times, with negative impact on the environment and the overall well-being of citizens. While countries are seemingly concerned with the challenges faced by cities and towns, who can no longer cope with the floodtide of migrants that arrive in them daily, in search of better economic opportunities and livelihoods, there appears to be a limited understanding of the structure and behaviour of human settlement systems, including the processes that underlie the changing patterns of human settlements. It is the primary purpose of this paper to trigger a national, regional, and global agenda for developing a coherent view of the theory and practice of human settlement development and management, for societies in transition. In so doing, the paper commences by a brief exploration of the origins and evolution of human settlements, followed by an attempt to examine the key theories and models that have, over time, influenced the understanding of human settlement forms. The paper proceeds to interrogate the types and functions of human settlements, and thereafter uncover the key contemporary challenges that face human settlements today, as described in the paper. One conceptual and methodological dilemma, you may call it a normative concern, that faced the author in framing this lecture paper has been an urge to depart from the conventional scholarly practice of proffering some suggested solutions for a selected few, amongst a myriad of, complex urban deficiencies that are identified in the lecture paper. The difficulty to prescribing a cure to each identified human settlement development challenge arises out oft, firstly, that the urban development challenges are interrelated and interdependent, and secondly, the challenges in view of all are but symptoms of much deeper and networked structural, economic, political, social, and technological causes, in a fluid global landscape, porous country borders and behaviourally undefinable city boundaries. This lecture, thus, concludes by throwing insights on some of the key issues for consideration, you may call them provocations, to be taken forward by all those who are committed to the global agenda of the pursuit of habitable, equitable, resilient human settlements within, between and across the nations of the world. Key Words: Human Settlements, Transformative Theory and Practice, People, Environment, Economy, Sustainability, Urbanisation, Regeneration, Public Policy, Equity, Resilience.
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Investigating the potential effects of Athrixia phylicoides (Bushman tea) for the treatment of diet-induced insulin resistance and non-alcoholic liver disease in rats.

Jazz Festival Willisau 88

Jazz forum: Mongezi Feza

Job satisfaction amongst middle managers of Department of Health

  • Authors: Mawonga, Mzukisi Edward
  • Subjects: Job satisfaction -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Job stress -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape. , Middle managers -- Job satisfaction , Public health administration -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:10082 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020197
  • Description: Job satisfaction studies are an essential element for ensuring improvement in service delivery. The researcher was committed to assist top management with important information that can make them aware of the causes and consequences of job satisfaction (Nel, Van Dyk, Haasbroek, Schultz, Sono and Werner, 2006:52). Job satisfaction is not only concerned with feeling good at work, it also encompasses job content, the work environment and interaction with all people. The study was conducted at the Department of Health in the Province of the Eastern Cape. This study aimed to describe the level of job satisfaction amongst middle managers of the Department of Health (DoH) at the Head Office, in terms of remuneration, interpersonal relationships, development, support, recognition, extent of supervision, their attitude to the work itself and working conditions.
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Jongilanga- 201516237-Business Management.pdf

  • Authors: Vusiwe
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29422 , vital:77966
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JOURNAL ARTICLE A.pdf

JOURNAL ARTICLE A.pdf

JOURNAL ARTICLE B.pdf

JOURNAL ARTICLE B.pdf

Kaseke Richmore.pdf

  • Authors: Phakama
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25486 , vital:64285
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King George IV and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Alice

Kuria and Oyedeji.pdf

  • Authors: Oyedeji, Adebola Omowunmi
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2446 , vital:41911
  • Description: Various articles from Prof Adebola Oyedeji
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