SOCIAL RESEARCH IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY: The Case of South Africa

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Welsh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Divided Society

Ascertaining the Role of Leadership on Employee Satisfaction in Market and Social Research Industries in Gauteng Province of South Africa Using Qualitative Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingstone Mutsonziwa ◽  
Philip Serumaga-Zake
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Mixed Approach

This paper is based on the study a Doctor of Business Leadership (DBL) thesis titled A Statistical Model for Employee Satisfaction in the Market and Social Research Industries in Gauteng Province. The purpose of this study was to identify the attributes that affect employee satisfaction in the Market and Social Research Industries in Gauteng Province, South Africa. In order to address the overall objective of this study, the researcher used a two-tiered (mixed) approach in which both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were used to complement and enrich the results. This paper is only based on the qualitative component of the study on leadership aspects based on six leaders (two from Social research and four from Market research) that were interviewed. The leaders were selected based on their knowledge of the industry and the expertise they have. Participation in the survey was voluntary. This paper illustrates the power of the qualitative techniques to uncover or unmask the leadership aspects in the Market and Social Research Industries and also gives the human touch to the quantitative results. It was found that leadership and management within the Market and Social Research Industries in Gauteng Province must ensure that they are accommodative in terms of mentoring their subordinates. The industry is driven by quality driven processes and strong leadership. More importantly, issues of a good working environment, remuneration, career growth, and recognition must always be addressed in order to increase employee satisfaction, reduce staff turnover, and attempt to optimize labour productivity. The qualitative findings also help a deeper understanding of leadership within the industry.

Growing up in a Divided Society: The Contexts of Childhood in South Africa

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Colin Murray ◽  
Sandra Burman ◽  
Pamela Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Divided Society

scholarly journals A thesis embargoed: Personnel research and ideology in South Africa after World War II

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (9/10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Louw
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Party Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The University

Ten years after the conclusion of World War II, the Department of Native Affairs of the National Party government of South Africa sponsored research into the selection of African civil servants. The study was conducted by Rae Sherwood, under the auspices of the National Social Research Council, and the National Institute for Personnel Research. In 1960, Sherwood submitted the work to the University of the Witwatersrand to obtain a PhD degree. Two government departments objected to the award of the degree. In this paper, I recount the history of the research, explaining that the acceleration of the apartheid project between 1948 and 1961 played a significant role in the controversy that developed. The paper furthermore illustrates the difficulties faced by social scientific research under repressive political conditions, and the need for a more nuanced view of the psychological research of the National Institute for Personnel Research in South Africa at the time.

Explaining and Understanding Employee Satisfaction and Leadership within The Market and Social Research Industries in Gauteng Province Using Path and Strategic Impact Analyses

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingstone Mutsonziwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Strategic Impact

This paper is based on the data used for the completion of Doctor of Business Leadership degree submitted at University of South Africa. The purpose of this paper is to identify how demographic information and factors derived from factor analysis affect employee satisfaction in the Market and Social Research Industries in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The data were collected face-to-face from ordinary employees using a quantitative questionnaire. An overall Cronbach alpha of 0.982 showed that the questionnaire used in the study was statistical reliable. Path analysis is used in this paper. It helps to understand the effect of indirect effects on employee satisfaction within the Market and Social Research industries in Gauteng. Further, the path analysis showed that overall leadership style of the leader affects employee satisfaction directly while overall leadership style was strongly driven by leaders motivator attributes. On the other hand, de-motivator leadership attributes tend to negatively affect overall leadership style of the leader. Day-to-day working conditions and co-worker attributes (all derived from employee/job related attributes) directly drove overall employee satisfaction of the respondents.

A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society

1991 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Gail M. Gerhart ◽  
Donald L. Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Divided Society

South Africa: The Problems in a Deeply Divided Society

1995 ◽  
pp. 235-255
Author(s):  
Francis Wilson ◽  
Jonathan Leape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Divided Society

The politics of language in a deeply divided society

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Southern
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Linguistic Communication ◽  
Divided Society ◽  
Politics Of Language ◽  
Heated Debate

Language plays an important role in fashioning the identity of ethnic groups. This article explores a minority language – Irish – in Northern Ireland. Given the society’s longstanding ethnic divisions, matters revolving around the Irish language are capable of generating heated debate. However, unlike some other minority languages, Irish is somewhat peculiar in that it is not used as a form of linguistic communication between speakers on a daily basis. Hence it lacks instrumental (but not symbolic) relevance in this sense and supporters of the language can be observed trying to create rather than maintain a community of speakers. This fact sets Irish apart from some other minority languages which have generated emotive political debate, for example, Afrikaans in South Africa and French in Canada. The article considers the language debate that has emerged in Northern Ireland in the light of such factors.

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