scholarly journals Challenges in Ascertaining ICT Skills Requirements in South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
HH Lotriet ◽  
MC Matthee ◽  
PM Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
South African ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
The Public ◽  
Skills Shortage ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Future Data

World wide, a number of far-reaching decisions regarding ways to address the ICT skills shortage are made by both the public and private sectors. These are based on information obtained from various sources and in various ways including quantitative research reports commissioned by government authorities. This paper reports on findings of a systematic textual examination of existing ICT skills shortage research reports with the South African reports receiving particular attention. This analysis shows that the collection of accurate data on ICT skills availability is extremely difficult, if not impossible, as the skills categories used in a diverse, ever-changing ICT environment are ill-defined, the data collection procedures are flawed and the results are difficult to interpret. In addition, successive reports frequently note the weaknesses of the data, but then use it as the basis for their findings. A recommendation from this research is that a Research Methodologies group be formed specifically to discuss this and with the brief to suggest some guidelines and to monitor and endorse future data collection and analysis.

scholarly journals Whistleblowing: Impediments to effective implementation within the South African public sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirmala Dorasamy ◽  
Soma Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
The South ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The Cost

This purpose of this article is to explore impediments to effective whistleblowing as a strategy for promoting anti-corruption practices within the South African public sector. Corruption, which violates the public service code of conduct; deters foreign investment, increases the cost of public service delivery, undermines the fight against poverty and unnecessarily burdens the criminal justice system. The article addresses the question on whether legislation on whistleblowing is adequate to encourage whistleblowing in the public sector. A review of literature determines that the effective implementation of whistleblowing legislation is largely dependent on addressing the challenges identified in the article. The quantitative research method was employed in the study to ascertain the views of employees in the public sector on whistleblowing. Empirical findings confirm the hypothesis that the protection of whistleblowers through legislation is inadequate to encourage whistleblowing. The article provides a conceptual framework for the effective achievement of the intended outcomes of whistleblowing in the public sector.

Global Jukebox

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Lizah Ismail ◽  
Warren Bareiss
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
The Public ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Beta Version ◽  
Musical Forms

The Global Jukebox (GJ) is an ambitious project initiated by the Association for Cultural Equity at New York’s Hunter College. Its main mission is to make available the extensive audio field recordings, pictures, and films studied by the legendary ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax and his colleagues accessible to the public for study. In the current beta version, the Global Jukebox has numerous navigation issues that could challenge even the seasoned web user. The methodological basis of data collection and analysis also deservers further explication. However, despite these weaknesses, there is much to be said for what GJ offers users. Whether spending hours moving around regions song by song or exploring familial cultural roots, users will be inspired to learn about the respective cultures and musical forms, thus fulfilling GJ’s education mission.

scholarly journals The benefits and dangers for churches and ministry institutions to work in a regulated environment, with reference to professionalising religious practice via South African Qualifications Authority and the National Qualifications Framework Act

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham A. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Qualifications Framework ◽  
Fit For Purpose

Since 1994 and the coming of democracy to South Africa there has been a concerted attempt to develop a coherent, unified educational system that will redress the inequities of the apartheid systems. Significant to this ongoing process is the field of higher education, where relevant legislation has been enacted in order to bring coherence and consistency to the education system in the public and private sectors. Significant issues have arisen with regard to the provision made by private religious educational institutions, especially those who have experienced difficulties in being accredited by statutory bodies. This paper seeks to explore these issues and suggest ways forward that are appropriate within an emerging unitary system of education that is fit for purpose in Africa and particularly South Africa, taking as a case study the formation of the Association of Christian Religious Practitioners.

Tibetan Identity and the Cultural Consensus Model

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Amy Mountcastle
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Cultural Consensus ◽  
Consensus Model ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis

Anthropologists have typically been polarized in their preferred methods of data collection and analysis. Quantitative research is characterized by its detractors as being reductionistic and positivist, while qualitative research is viewed as being non-scientific because of issues of reliability and validity. In the Survey Methods course at SCRM, participants were primarily from qualitative backgrounds. It quickly became apparent that we represented a small, but perhaps growing, subgroup of ethnographic researchers who are interested, for a variety of reasons, in bridging this qual-quant divide.

scholarly journals KINERJA APARATUR TERHADAP KUALITAS PELAYANAN PUBLIK DI KANTOR KELURAHAN WALA KECAMATAN MARITENGNGAE KABUPATEN SIDENRENG RAPPANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-189
Author(s):  
Nur syawal Ashari ◽  
Muhammad Rais Rahmat ◽  
Abdul Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Public ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Data Collection Technique

Apparatus on the quality of public services in Wala Village, Kecamatang Maritengngae, Sidenreng Rappang Regency. The population in conducting this study were people with male and female gender, amounting to 3,725 people from two environments, the data collection technique used was the Slovin formula with 92 results, taken based on purposive sampling technique. The type of research used is descriptive quantitative research, data collection techniques used are observation techniques, questionnaires, literature study, and documentation. The data analysis technique is using the validity and reliability tests using the SPSS 21.0 application and a Likert scale. Based on the research that was taken from the results of the questionnaire data, it was obtained that the recapitulation of the Apparatus Performance variable with a percentage of 67.4% was included in the "Good" category while the recapitulation of the Public Service Quality variable with a percentage of 69.6% was included in the "Good" category.

scholarly journals The Effect of Relational Coordination on Employee Creative Involvement: A Study of Public and Private Hospitals in Peshawar, Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (III) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tahir ◽  
Sajid Rahman ◽  
Imran Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Relational Coordination ◽  
Related Concept ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Public And Private Hospitals ◽  
New Research ◽  
Coordination Field

Relational coordination is an emerging HR-related concept based on the network of ties between task participants and is expected to produce favorable efficiency and quality outcome. The relational coordination-employee outcome is new research dimension in the relational coordination field. The objective of the study was to test if relational coordination leads to employee related outcomes. In terms of research methodology, we followed the positivism paradigm, used deductive approach, and quantitative method of data collection and analysis. Furthermore, we used the survey based on previously developed measures for data collection. Through stratified random sampling, data is collected from doctors, nurses, and support staff from five public and five private sector hospitals. The usable questionnaires were 978. Our findings show that relational coordination among staff positively influence the employee creative involvement (employee outcome). The findings have implications for the management of healthcare and a number of recommendations are made.

scholarly journals The Degree of Applying Accountability Principles in Public & Private Universities in Jordan: A Comparative Study BetweenYarmouk University and Jerash University

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Ahmed Malkawi ◽  
Kamil Al-Otoum
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Status ◽  
Yarmouk University ◽  
The University

The study aimed to identify the status of applying the principles of accountability in the public and private universities in Jordan. This was done by comparing between Yarmouk University and Jerash University from the perspective of the employees. The study sample consisted of 250 faculty members and one administrator at Yarmouk University and Jerash University. The questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The study reached several conclusions, most notably of which include the presence of statistically significant differences in the reality of applying the accountability principles at universities in general, and in the administrative, and academic fields. This, however, is dependent on the variable of the university in favor of Jerash University. The study concluded on a number of recommendations most important of which is the necessity of activating the accountability mechanisms and tools in three areas: administrative, and academic areas of public universities in a higher degree. It also includes a commitment with unified criteria of accountability to ensure the maintenance of an acceptable level of justice and transparency.

scholarly journals Bridging the Public and Private in the Study of Teaching: Revisiting the Research Argument

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
RACHEL E. SCHACHTER ◽  
DONALD FREEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Role Of Teachers

In this essay, Rachel Schachter and Donald Freeman present the familiar problem in studying and improving teaching: how to connect what teachers know and think with what they do as they teach. They outline how research on the public and private worlds of teaching has become bifurcated, with the private side of the work often disconnected from observable practices, and contend that focusing on how public actions and private reasoning are connected is crucial to more fully understanding teaching. They revisit stimulated recall as a research procedure that connects the public and private in teaching, reviewing how it has been used in studying teachers' decision-making and questioning assumptions that generally frame the procedure as a means of data collection. This critique distinguishes stimulated recall as a procedure for collecting data from the claims and the justifications on which it is based. In shifting the basis of the approach, Schachter and Freeman argue that the procedure offers a practical vehicle for researchers to use in both connecting the two worlds and repositioning the role of teachers in the study of their work.

scholarly journals Museum ethnography: Researching punishment museums as environments of narrativity

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 205979911772061
Author(s):  
Hannah Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
History Of

Like all museums, punishment museums and sites of penal tourism are inherently political and moral institutions, offering cultural memories of a collective past. As environments of narrativity, these are significant spaces in which the public ‘learn’ about the past and how it continues to inform the present. In line with recent studies about ‘dark’ tourist sites, this article argues that the crime/punishment museum and jail cell tour can – and should – be understood as an ethnographic opportunity for narrative analysis. Rather than focus on just the findings of such an analysis, this article seeks to provide a practical guide to data collection and analysis in the context of criminological museum research. Offering illustrative examples from a study of Texan sites of penal tourism, it demonstrates how the history of punishment – as represented in museums – is an important part of cultural identity more broadly, playing a significant role in how we conceptualise (in)justice, morality and the purpose of punishment. In short, this article discusses how we can evoke the ethnographic tradition within museum spaces in order to interrogate how crime and punishment are expressed through narratives, images, objects and symbols.

Inequitable access to the knowledge market in Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 424-432
Author(s):  
Samuel Akinyemi ◽  
Onoride Collins Potokri
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
National Development ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Knowledge Market

In a knowledge market, the knowledge, skills and expertise needed for the economic and sociopolitical transformation of a nation and its citizens are transacted at different prices. Inequitable access to this market poses a serious threat to the economic welfare of the country and its citizens. The authors assess the extent of this threat with reference to university education in Nigeria and its implications for national development. Questionnaires were used to obtain data and, since this is a quantitative research study, the factors serving as the basis for analysis are as follows: the official minimum wage, poverty rates and the prices (fees) charged at the sampled universities. The findings reveal that more than 70% of the total population live on between US$3.70 and US$7.39 per day. In addition, the lowest fees charged at the public and private universities are Nigeria Naira N75,000 (US$477.71) and N400,000 (US$2547.77), respectively. Thus, there is not only a substantial difference in the prices charged, but university fees are also beyond the means of the majority of Nigerians. Identifying these university fees as the main cause of inequitable access to the knowledge market, the authors propose that the prices should be reduced to accommodate the impoverished majority and argue that the government should facilitate access to university education through student loans and public funding.

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