Leadership Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Loganadhan Dalyiah Naidoo ◽  
Mohamed Saheed Bayat ◽  
Bhagavathi Bhavani Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Transparency International ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Great Scrutiny ◽  
Corruption Perception ◽  
Private Domain

Proper governance in organizations across both the public and private domain has come under great scrutiny around the world. In South Africa with a Transparency International 2015 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score of 44, rank 61/168, the question of appropriate governance structures to curb corruption is critical. There have been highly publicized recent occurrences of corruption and mismanagement in South African SOE’ssuch as Prasa, Eskom, SABC, Denel, SAA and Transnet. These instances have resulted in increased scrutiny on governance and ethical leadership in government organizations. With the high-profile cases mentioned above, and the resultant public disillusionment with government organizations, the ethical recapture of these organizations is imperative. This paper examines the latest recommendations contained in the King Report (King IV) with particular attention to ethics in leadership. It considers the question of whether King IV will be effective in promoting ethical leadership.

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.

scholarly journals Monitoring of Litigation Costs and Efforts to Eradicate Judicial Corruption Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaka Firma Aditya ◽  
Sholahuddin Al-Fatih
Keyword(s):  
Cost Control ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Transparency International ◽  
The Public ◽  
Judicial Corruption ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Corruption Perception ◽  
Litigation Cost

Judicial corruption practices in Indonesia have been going on for long time. Even, according to Transparency International survey (2007), the judiciary in Indonesia ranks highest for corruption perception index. Not only that, the mode used by the judicial mafia is also increasingly modern and occurs almost in all aspects of judiciary. This research has two aims, namely: (1) to know and analyze the mode of corruption in the judicial process in Indonesia, and (2) to know and analyze the model of litigation cost control in the judicial process in Indonesia. This research is juricial-normative research which are using the statute approach and conceptual approach. From this research, it can be seen that, Typically, corrupt practices have been initiated since the registration of the cases, the establishment of judges panel, summoning witnesses and experts, negotiationg decisions and cost of copy of the decisions. Ironically, many parties are involved in the judicial corruption practices ranging from clerks, officials and employess in the judiciary and the judges themselves. However, the more modern technology can be used as an alternative solution in combating the practices of judicial corruption. One of them, by applying litigation cost control that can be integrated through whistleblowing system. In this way, the public can monitoring in real-time the trial process starting from registration fee litigation, the process of litigation until post-verdict.

scholarly journals Methodological Proposal to Study the Uses and Appropriations of Unfinished Estates: A View from Vizela, Portugal

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Rui Pereira ◽  
João Sarmento
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Social Uses

Contemporary urbanity is marked by the presence of abandonment, ruins, and voids. Over the last decades, the model of urban development in Portugal allowed a discontinuous city expansion that has left many plots and spaces empty. Due to interrupted urbanization processes, urban developments suspended in time and space have progressively degraded, constituting nowadays new forms of non-historical ruins and a significant part of the urban landscape. However, these semi constructed buildings, are not only structures made of brick and mortar, but commonly the object of several and distinct appropriations and social uses. In order to explore the socio-cultural meanings of these ruinous constructions, their social life and their material and symbolic transformation, this paper puts forward a methodology, based on systematic ethnographic observation and detailed field work. Furthermore, it applies this methodology to a case study—an unfinished project in the city of Vizela, Portugal, for which fieldwork was carried out during 2017 and 2018. The paper ends up highlighting a political challenge in planning the contemporary city, towards the need to overcome a conventional dichotomy between the usage rights of the public and private domain.

scholarly journals Jade's Dying Body: The Ultimate Reality Show

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Walter
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Ultimate Reality ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Reality Show

The article analyses the scale of, and reactions to, print media coverage of the dying from cancer in 2009 of young British media celebrity Jade Goody. Some sociologists have argued that death is sequestrated, with the dying body particularly hidden and problematic; hence the sociological significance of the intense and high profile coverage of Jade's final weeks. In particular, the baroque emotionality of press photos, especially those which glamorised her baldness (the result of failed chemotherapy), challenges the sequestration thesis. Reactions were complex, with criticism of her public dying mixed with criticism of reality television in general, together with class prejudice. New media's blurring of public and private creates new arenas for publicising the bodily, personal and emotional experience of dying, while at the same time affirming the public/private boundary so that the ordinary dying of ordinary people remains substantially hidden.

Public-private domain distinction as an aspect of LPP frameworks

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Obaidul Hamid ◽  
Richard B. Baldauf
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Globalized World

While macro-level language policy and planning (LPP) that is done mainly by governments still dominates thinking in the field, limitations of this focus have been demonstrated by recent broader and more focused conceptualizations of LPP. For instance, global LPP, particularly for languages of wider communication such as English, has received considerable attention. Similarly, studies of meso- and micro-level planning has shown that many LPP decisions have to be taken at sub-national institutional, communal and familial levels, particularly in contexts where macro-level policies do not exist, where non-interventionist policies of benign neglect are deemed appropriate from a political point of view, or where a problem is too small to attract national attention. These recent developments have led to additions to the macro-level LPP framework, providing more appropriate and contextually relevant tools to understand LPP efforts carried out by LPP “actors” both within and beyond individual polities. However, this diversification of LPP frames and contexts can also be seen as going through a process of simultaneous unification and taking a macro-like character, as illustrated by the distinctions being drawn between the public and the private sector LPP. Taking Bangladesh as a case and drawing on LPP issues pertaining to public and private universities as well as pre-tertiary educational institutions with a particular focus on medium of instruction and the private tutoring industry, we argue for the relevance of this macro-like distinction for a better understanding of complex LPP issues in the country. We maintain that the public-private domain distinction may complement existing variables by adding a dimension that is increasingly becoming important in a globalized world dominated by neoliberalism.

Studying Up: A Scrutiny of South African Tourism Policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Briedenhann ◽  
Steve Butts
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Participation Research ◽  
Policy Arena

In recent years structural changes have directly affected the public sector management of South African tourism. This paper provides an understanding of structural and policy changes, and their seeming lack of implementation, through primary research carried out with policy makers, government officials, and other high profile players involved in South African tourism. Access to what is normally such an inaccessible group was obtained by the first author, who held a prominent position in South African tourism. Her post put her in direct contact with informants that established the level of rapport necessary for their participation. Research findings provide insights into the policy arena that would otherwise be challenging, if not impossible, to obtain.

Is Access to Food a Public Good?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Baics
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
The Common ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
Access To Food ◽  
Private Domain

This chapter provides a new account of the political economy of the public market system of provisioning, exploring how the common good of citizens' access to food was forged out of the conflicting and converging interests, rights, and responsibilities of the three constituent parties involved: residents, market vendors, and city officials. It then discusses the process of market deregulation, exploring how and why citizens' access to food was gradually pushed from the public to the private domain through the expansion of informal retail from the 1830s, followed by the market laws' repeal in 1843. Further, it details the shifting ground of public and private goods, outlining the fiscal connections between the liberalization of New York's formerly tightly regulated food economy and the city's huge investments in the Croton Waterworks.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document