- Title
- An optimal skills development planning and implementation process flow model for local government
- Creator
- Dowd-Krause, Amanda
- Subject
- Employees -- Training of -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Subject
- Skilled labor -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Subject
- Skilled labor -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Subject
- Local government -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- vital:8668
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1211
- Identifier
- Employees -- Training of -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Identifier
- Skilled labor -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Identifier
- Skilled labor -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Identifier
- Local government -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to develop an optimal skills development planning and implementation process flow model for application within local government authorities, more specifically for application within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. To achieve this, a literature review was conducted which provided for an understanding on how skills development structures and strategies have changed in recent times and how the laws which provide the framework and landscape for skills development in South Africa, have been adapted to accommodate these changes. The literature review continued with an analysis of various theoretical training and skills development models in order to determine an optimal systematic approach to training and development in South Africa, and to determine the sequential flow of skills planning and implementation process flow steps. From the literature and theoretical models, an all-embracing skills development planning and implementation process flow model was developed for implementation in local government authorities. This model was used as the basis for the development of a survey questionnaire to establish to what extent metropolitan municipalities, agreed or disagreed, that it implemented the aspects of the proposed model developed in this study. Structured interviews were conducted using the survey questionnaire. The results obtained were used to adapt the theoretical model, and to align it with the viewpoints of the majority of the respondents. Although various facets of skills development were found to be implemented across metropolitan municipalities, the majority of the municipalities did not apply optimal skills planning, nor did they apply optimal sequential process steps to ensure effective and efficient skills development. iv The empirical study established without a doubt that a dire need exists for an optimal skills development planning and implementation process flow model within local government authorities. Based on the analysis and interpretation of the research findings, the model proposed for local government authorities was customised to produce a process flow model to facilitate optimal skills development planning and implementation within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.
- Format
- xiv, 160 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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