Browsing Research Output by Subject "communication"

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    • Inadequate stakeholder management and its effect on a coherent sinkhole risk management strategy: the case of the Merafong Local Municipality, South Africa 

      Moshodi, Tshepo; Coetzee, Christo; Fourie, Kristel (AOSIS, 2016)
      The Merafong Local Municipality (MLM) has historically suffered financial and human losses because of the presence of dolomite and the consequent formation of sinkholes. There is a great need for the MLM to address the ...

    • Information and communication 

      Strauss, Danie (Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2016)
      After the Enlightenment of the 18th century concern for the lonesome individual and the need for communication gave birth to the academic disciplines of psychology and communication science. Positivism and the linguistic ...

    • Integrated co-operative governance in the context of sustainable development 

      Nealer, Eric John; Naudé, M. (NWU Vanderbijl Campus, 2011)
      The rapid global development is mostly economically driven and made up of complex country-specific problems. Although sustainable development (SD) is a well established concept and an urgent global challenge, differing ...

    • Time and communication. 

      Strauss, D.F.M. (Unit for Community Communication of the Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State., 2014)
      This article commences by paying attention to the dual role of signs, as physical subjects and communicative objects – both being correlated with physical law and communicative principles. In order to show that time cannot ...

    • Towards an understanding of nurturing and restraining relational patterns in school communities 

      Kitching, Ansie Elizabeth; Roos, Vera; Ferreira, Ronel; Kitching, Ansie Elizabeth; Roos, Vera; Ferreira, Ronel (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      This study aimed to understand the nature of nurturing and restraining relationships in a school communiy. The inquiry entailed a single instrumental case study of a selected school community in a semi-urban context in ...

    • Work-life balance policies: the use of flexitime 

      Downes, Caroline; Koekemoer, Eileen (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      This study investigated the use of flexitime as a Work-life balance (WLB) policy and understanding employee perceptions regarding the use of flexitime among South African employees. A qualitative design with an exploratory ...