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Wage negotiations agreement between Vusi Sweepers & Scriber and FAWU on behalf of employees

Memorandum of a wage agreement entered into between FAWU and Beestepan Boerdery (PTY) Ltd

Wage agreements between Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) and Kanhym Estates (PTY) LTD (KANHYM)

Message to the Old Rhodian Perth Reunion

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2014-09-11
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7846 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016039
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  • Date Issued: 2014-09-11

National substantive agreement entered into between two parties, being: Essential Foods: Grains, a division of Pioneer Foods (Pty) Ltd and Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU)

Agreement made and entered into between Wimpy Belfast Onestop (the employer) and the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) on behalf of its members

Assuring the quality of mentoring in Malawi's 1+1 model of initial primary teacher education programme: implications for teacher development

  • Authors: Mwanza, Alnord Levison Dave
  • Date: 2014-09
  • Subjects: Mentoring in education , Total quality management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Doctoral theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24632 , vital:63385
  • Description: Teacher education has been the focus of numerous studies across the world. The debates revolve around what models or approaches to teacher development produce high quality teachers as measured by their ability to promote student learning. This has given rise to a continuum of models. At the one extreme there are those who advocate practice first and theory later; at the other there are those who recommend theory first and then practice. In between there is a combination of a variety of approaches. The models of teacher development, however, continue to grapple with the problem of how to balance theory and practice. In Malawi, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) (MIE, 2006) came up with what they see as a balance between theory and practice when they introduced the 1 year of theory and 1 year of practice, a model referred to as the 1+1. The focus of this study was on the one year of practical teaching where mentoring is critical; hence the particular attention to examine and understand how its quality was assured from the perspective of fitness for purpose and fitness of purpose. The study was anchored mainly in the post-positivist paradigm and the methodology used was the mixed-methods approach. A mixed methods sequential explanatory design comprising a survey followed by a case study was employed. For the survey, four sets of semi-structured questionnaires whose Cronbach Alpha Reliability Coefficients, α, were 0.971, 0.827, 0.859 respectively were developed using the Tailored Design Method; these were pilot tested and then administered through a drop-and-pick strategy to a census sample of 804 respondents comprising 92 school mentors, 92 school head-teachers, 4 Teacher Training College mentoring coordinators and 616 student teachers. A total response rate of 96percent was obtained. The case study design phase comprised six one-on-one face-to-face structured interviews; five focus groups; five non-participant observations; and a review of ten documents employing interview schedules, observations and document checklists as instruments for data collection. A total of 27 participants, three of whom did not participate in the survey phase, were involved in this phase. Quantitative data collected from either phase was analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 20 while content analysis was used to analyse qualitative data. As a mixed-method study, some of the qualitative data was quantitized and some of the quantitative data was qualititized; and integration of data was made during the following stages: research questions formulation, data collection, data presentation, and discussion and interpretation. The study revealed several weaknesses in assuring the quality of mentoring in the 1+1 IPTE model. First, the norms and standards for mentoring designed by the Ministry of Education were not used to guide the mentoring process. Instead, they were designed to fulfil accountability requirements of the Ministry of Education and Teacher Training Colleges rather than self-improvement. Hence, the study revealed that all the 92 schools had, therefore, no policies, practice codes and standards for monitoring mentoring casting doubt on the functioning of internal quality assurance. The study further revealed that 12 of the school mentors (13percent) had lower academic qualifications than their seventy-two student teachers they were mentoring; 35 of the school mentors (38percent) were at the entry grade of their teaching career; two of the mentors (2percent) (mentoring over twelve student teachers) were within the first three years of teaching, which means that they, themselves, were in need of being mentored; and all the school mentors had full time teaching responsibilities. As such, some student teachers indicated that they were not being assessed at all by their school mentors. This situation regarding mentors raises concerns over the subject knowledge levels of the mentors, the role model functions of the mentors and their competency to effectively mentor student teachers, as well as concerns regarding the quality of the mentoring programme and its outcomes. Findings from the study also revealed little or no monitoring of mentoring in schools as schools had no structures and systems for monitoring mentoring; and heavy workloads and financial constraints prevented college lecturers from monitoring mentoring in primary schools. However, on a positive note, the study revealed that 99percent of school mentors were trained for their mentoring roles and were receiving regular training which was provided regularly on a term-basis. Based on the above findings, the 1+1 Initial Primary Teacher Education model in Malawi is undermined by weak mentoring practices which have the potential to widen the theory and practice gap, and potentially impact on the quality of teachers produced. It is further recommended that the mentoring practices move away from the technicist approach and focus on the actual processes of mentoring; that norms and standards for school mentor selection and support are developed; that there should be more workshopping, seminars and conferences for mentors; and that schools should be assisted to develop collegial-emancipatory quality assurance systems for mentoring. A rainbow model for assuring the quality of mentoring in the 1+1 IPTE mode is finally recommended. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Education, 2014
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Mutual agreement between FAWU obo the employees and Georges Restaurant

Using System Dynamics to Explore the Water Supply and Demand Dilemmas of a Small South African Municipality

  • Authors: Clifford-Holmes, Jai K , Slinger, Jill H , Musango, J K , Brent, A C , Palmer, Carolyn G
  • Date: 2014-08-15
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference paper
  • Identifier: vital:7070 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014840
  • Description: This paper explores the challenges faced by small municipalities in providing water services in a developing world context of increasing urban demand. The paper uses a case study of the Sundays River Valley Municipality (SRVM) in South Africa. The municipality faces multiple dilemmas in reconciling its available water supply with growing demand for potable water in the primary urban settlement in the area, in a struggle that is typical of the broad category of South African municipalities to which the SRVM belongs. These dilemmas are explored using a system dynamics model, referred to as the ‘Kirkwood water demand system dynamics model’ (K-DEM). This paper specifically introduces the K-DEM structure,which is aimed at investigating the impacts of households progressively receiving full water and sanitation services; the use of rainwater harvesting as an alternative form of water supply; and the possible effect of a household-level water conservation / water demand management programme. Baseline results are discussed, and areas for future research identified. Paper presented at the 32nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 21-24 July 2014, in Delft, the Netherlands. , Word , Mac OS X 10.8.5 Quartz PDFContext
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Wage agreement entered into by and between FAWU obo members and Ah-Vest Limited t/a All Joy Foods

Vice-Chancellor's report to Convocation

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2014-08-11
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7841 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016034
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  • Date Issued: 2014-08-11

Agreements between Food and Allied Workers Union and General Mills South Africa (Pty) Ltd regarding 2014/2015 review of wages and other conditions of employment

Agreement between Sishen Iron Ore Company (Pty) Ltd and Solidarity and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM): the 2014/2015/2106 review periods of wages and other conditions of employment

Settlement wage agreement 2014/2015 between Breakfast Cereals Atlantis Operating Unit and ProNutro Wadeville Operating Unit as part of Pioneer Foods Groceries Business and Food and Allied Workers Union

Wage agreement entered into between FAWU obo employees and Shannon Partners Pty (Ltd)

Collective agreement entered into between Food and Allied Workers Union and Clover SA (Pty) Ltd

Electronic Resources Management

  • Authors: Stoltz, Brenda , Van der Walt, Wynand
  • Date: 2014-06-20
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7955 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012048
  • Description: Continual Professional & Development training session on Electronic Resources Management, Grahamstown, 20 June 2014.
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  • Date Issued: 2014-06-20

2014/15 National substantive agreement entered into by and between Coca-Cola Canners of Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd and Food and Allied Workers Union

A model for enhancing trust in information systems tools within Nigeria media planning agencies

  • Authors: Olaitan, Olutoyin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5350-4136
  • Date: 2014-06
  • Subjects: Information resources management--Nigeria , Information networks--Security measures--Nigeria
  • Language: English
  • Type: Master's theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24904 , vital:63669
  • Description: Media Planning Agencies (MPAs) are responsible for purchasing time and advertising space on behalf of organisations who desire to advertise or market their products and services (Kupoluyi, 2011). These agencies perform their tasks based on the evaluative factors of pricing, demographics, reach, psychographics and other factors relevant to the clients’ target market which are all enabled by technology. MPAs utilise industry specific Information Systems (IS) tools in their business processes. McKnight (2005) contends that trust in IS tools directly impacts on the willingness of a user to depend on such IS tools for accomplishing their goals. The research problem exists due to the fact that the current level of trust in these IS tools employed within MPAs in Nigeria is very low (Egbonwon, 2012). This distrust has led to the non-optimisation of the available tools. Empirical findings reveal that most of the personnel in these agencies prefer to actualise their processes manually, or at best with the limited aid of Microsoft Office tools such as Excel and Word (Akharume, 2012). Thus the research problem investigated trust-enhancing mechanisms for IS tools in MPAs to improve efficient and effective use. The study conducted an in-depth critique of the role of trust in maximizing IS tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness within Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This was done through a literature review and questionnaire. The output of the research process is the proposition of a model for enhancing trust in IS tools within MPAs. The study proposed that the enhancement of trust in IS tools will lead to optimal use of these tools, thus leading to efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of Nigerian MPAs. The model was developed by following Hevner, March, Park and Ram’s (2004) Design Science research guidelines and validated through an expert review process. The outcome of the expert review was used to further refine the model and thereafter conclude the study. It is believed that the outcome of this research will empower MPAs to become competitive nationally, grow into global players in their industry and achieve efficiency with regards to how business is conducted. , Thesis (MCom IS) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2014
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A model for enhancing trust in information systems tools within Nigerian media planning agencies

  • Authors: Olutoyin, Olaitan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5350-4136
  • Date: 2014-06
  • Subjects: Advertising media planning -- Nigeria , Information resources management -- Nigeria
  • Language: English
  • Type: Master's theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25592 , vital:64337
  • Description: Media Planning Agencies (MPAs) are responsible for purchasing time and advertising space on behalf of organisations who desire to advertise or market their products and services (Kupoluyi, 2011). These agencies perform their tasks based on the evaluative factors of pricing, demographics, reach, psychographics and other factors relevant to the clients’ target market which are all enabled by technology. MPAs utilise industry specific Information Systems (IS) tools in their business processes. McKnight (2005) contends that trust in IS tools directly impacts on the willingness of a user to depend on such IS tools for accomplishing their goals. The research problem exists due to the fact that the current level of trust in these IS tools employed within MPAs in Nigeria is very low (Egbonwon, 2012). This distrust has led to the non-optimisation of the available tools. Empirical findings reveal that most of the personnel in these agencies prefer to actualise their processes manually, or at best with the limited aid of Microsoft Office tools such as Excel and Word (Akharume, 2012). Thus the research problem investigated trust-enhancing mechanisms for IS tools in MPAs to improve efficient and effective use. The study conducted an in-depth critique of the role of trust in maximizing IS tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness within Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This was done through a literature review and questionnaire. The output of the research process is the proposition of a model for enhancing trust in IS tools within MPAs. The study proposed that the enhancement of trust in IS tools will lead to optimal use of these tools, thus leading to efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of Nigerian MPAs. The model was developed by following Hevner, March, Park and Ram’s (2004) Design Science research guidelines and validated through an expert review process. The outcome of the expert review was used to further refine the model and thereafter conclude the study. It is believed that the outcome of this research will empower MPAs to become competitive nationally, grow into global players in their industry and achieve efficiency with regards to how business is conducted. , Thesis (MCom) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2014
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  • Date Issued: 2014-06
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