scholarly journals The International Information Consultant: A Primer on Avoiding Potholes, Perils, and Pitfalls

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-240
Author(s):  
Catherine Lemmer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
The Law ◽  
Problem Solvers ◽  
Law Library

Consultants are retained to assist libraries in identifying, designing, and implementing solutions to a wide variety of strategic, management, operational, and human resources issues. The goal of the library-consultant relationship is to improve the operations of the organization. Although often unrecognized as such, law librarians are natural consultants. Librarians are problem solvers, and as such develop and use many of the same skills as consultants in their everyday roles in the law library.For those versatile librarians skilled in change management and interested in pursuing these challenging professional opportunities, this article discusses best practices for library consultants and provides advice on how to avoid pitfalls in the context of an international case study. Part I of the article provides an introduction to professional consulting. Part II discusses the author's case study, a six-month fellowship with the Legal Resources Centre of South Africa. Part III then concludes the article with an articulation of the skills and talents exhibited by successful consultants to enable interested readers to better understand if consulting is an opportunity matched to their professional interests and skills.

Integrating Organizational Values With Workplace Performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-247
Author(s):  
Zachery Ryan Beaver ◽  
Rose Baker ◽  
Carl Binder
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Shared Services ◽  
Workplace Performance ◽  
Central Group

With an end goal to build and maintain a new workplace culture to support workplace performance, the central human resources shared services group for a large university initiated a pilot project to improve the performance of their processes, systems, and its human resources. Through the guidance of a performance improvement professional facilitator, the central group consulted various cultural models and change management methods to identify a pilot project. The implementation of a multilevel change methodology for performance improvement was applied to the work performed by the human resources information services (HRIS) group. Using their newly defined mission, vision, and values statements as a guide, the central human resources shared services group piloted one project with the subgroup then moved onto others. This case study focuses on the pilot project within the human resources information services (HRIS) group, the work of the performance improvement facilitator and the group's members, and the outcomes of their efforts.

scholarly journals Private Archives in South Africa: Their Protection and Access with Particular Reference to the now Defunct Lutheran Theological Institute Library and Archives

Atlanti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Francis Garaba
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Subsequent Loss ◽  
The Law ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Insight Into

This treatise is a case study that provides an insight into the status of private archives in South Africa with regards to their protection and access provisions. The paper is based on the author’s experiences as a manuscript librarian at the now defunct Lutheran Theological Institute (LTI) Library and Archives and research on faith-based archives which this institution was endowed with. The thesis of this paper is that records and archives legislation in South Africa as far as it applies to private archives is lethargic and not comprehensive enough to provide an enabling environment for their stewardship which is leading to loss of documentary heritage. The demise of this institution and the subsequent loss of the collection is testimony. In consequence, faith based collections (religious archives) need to be legislated like their counterparts public archives for protection and access in terms of the law.

Academic Law Library Collections in Africa Comparative Notes on Nigeria and South Africa

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yemisi Dina
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Library ◽  
Essential Service ◽  
Library Collections

The law library is an essential service in the functioning of an academic library. Unlike other disciplines where the library is just one of a number of supporting overhead services provided to enable the researcher and student to do their work, the law library is like a laboratory, thus making it an essential service to legal research.

scholarly journals COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN EFFORTS TO INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS IN KARAWANG REGENCY (CASE STUDY ON GROUP OF NON-EMPLOYEE COOPERATIVES IN KARAWANG REGENCY)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Nurdinasari ◽  
Puji Isyanto
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Strategy Management ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Natural Object ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
Data Source

Abstract The purpose of the research to find out how the implementation of non-employee cooperative management strategy in Kabupaten Karawang. Research with qualitative approach based on postpositivesme philosophy, is used to examine the natural object condition where the researcher is as the key instrument, the sampling of the data source is done purposively, the collecting technique with triangulation, the data analysis is inductive / qualitative, and the result of more qualitative research Emphasizing the meaning of generalization. From the results of research, obtained the following conclusions: (1). Non-Employee Cooperatives in Kabupaten Karawang that have been established Implementation Strategy management is still not optimal, (2). The concept of competitiveness of non-Employee Cooperatives in Kabupaten Karawang as an independent economic institution, has not been applied, (3). Constraints faced by cooperatives in facing the competitiveness of cooperatives implicate inhibiting the ability of the competitiveness of cooperatives in Karawang regency, especially Human Resources which is the main resources as a driver of cooperatives and strategic management of human centered cooperatives, (4). Cooperative development strategies in an effort to increase competitiveness require development and require the attention of various parties. Furthermore, the established cooperatives should apply strategic management by applying the organization's and management's standards seen from the organization. Keywords: Cooperative, Strategic Management, Competitiveness.

scholarly journals The Ed O'Brien Street Law and Legal Literacy International Best Practices Conference, Durban, South Africa, April 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Rebecca Grimes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Legal Literacy ◽  
The Law ◽  
Developing And Developed Countries

<p align="JUSTIFY">South Africa has been the home of a vibrant public legal education (PLE)　programme for many years. Indeed its Street Law initiative has been　described as one of the strategic responses to　and a　catalyst for change during the apartheid era. The focus on democracy and human rights for all　in the lead up to and following the 1994 election has aided the transition from the old regime to the new.　</p><p align="JUSTIFY">Ignorance of the law and legal process is of course a problem in many developing and developed countries and an　international conference was therefore　planned last year to bring the ever-expanding international legal literacy scene to Durban in order to identify and share best practice - an attempt to promote and support a better understanding of rights and responsibilities under the law.　</p><p align="JUSTIFY">The untimely death of the Street Law co-founder, Ed O'Brien, in July 2015　gave the event even greater poignancy. The conference was not only a global sharing of experience but also an important reminder of how this movement began and of Ed's (and others') role in that process.</p>

scholarly journals Change management and its effects on organizational resources

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxana Mironescu
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Organizational Resources ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
And Training

Change is a factor of strong impact especially on the managerial functions related to coordination and training of resources. Change Management has a broad spectrum of interpretations, referring to several types of changes, but is generally used in the management<br />processes, in strategic management and the management of information, including the electronic function of information. Human Resources Change Management can be reactive or proactive, in the latter case the conditions for initiating changes that are part of the strategic objectives of the organization.

scholarly journals Gendered health care labour markets? A case study of anatomical pathologists and haematologists in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suveera Singh ◽  
Shaun Ruggunan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources For Health ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Medical Laboratory ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Preference Theory ◽  
Kwazulu Natal

This study qualitatively explored the role of gender and related factors that influence medical doctors’ decisions in selecting a specialisation within medical laboratory medicine. This study is novel in that it disaggregates doctors by specialisation. It further focuses on non-clinical medical specialists who have been ignored in the global human resources for health literature. Hakim’s preference theory as well as socialisation theory is adapted to explain some of the reasons female doctors make certain career choices regarding specialisation within the medical field. The study focused on laboratory doctors in the public and private sector in KwaZulu- Natal. A qualitative approach was adopted given the small population size and the need for an interpretive approach to the data. The research design was an exploratory case study and thematic analysis was used to discover the relevant themes. The non-probability purposeful sample comprised a total of 20 participants, of which 11 were anatomical pathologists and 9 were haematologists, all based in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Data collection was performed via in-depth interviews. Trustworthiness of the data was ensured through methods of credibility and triangulation. The key finding is that although gender is a significant factor in career choice (for specific disciplines), it is one of many factors that determine self-selection into a specific medical laboratory specialisation. The conclusions, although not generalisable, have implications for human resources for health policies targeted at achieving higher levels of recruitment in laboratory medicine as a profession.

Deutsche Bank

2011 ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
Hauke Heier ◽  
Hans P. Borgman
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
Case Description ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Planning Development

The case study describes the issues surrounding the development and global rollout of the Intranet-based Knowledge Management System (KMS) HRbase at Deutsche Bank. It sets the stage for a decision situation that Deutsche Banks Global Head of Human Resources (HR), Heinz Fischer, faced in 2001. Based on low usage rates and ambiguous feedback from his 15 most senior HR executives, he had to decide about HRbases future: it would either be funded from an earmarked budget in 2001, changed significantly, or discontinued. Meanwhile, the responsible project manager Hilger Pothmann and the HRbase project team understood the necessity to turn the project around and to come up with a proposal for technical improvements and a sound change in management strategy. The case description provides a chronological account of the planning, development, and global rollout of HRbase, paying specific attention to project management issues, change management interventions, and the global cross-cultural challenges that emerged.

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