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Toward a culturally and contextually sensitive understanding of resilience: privileging the voices of Black, South African young people
(Sage, 2016)Extant theories of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, privilege the voices of minority-world young people. Consequently, the resilience of marginalized, majority-world youth is imperfectly understood, ... -
Toward a model to enhance synergy of out-of-home advertising media integration strategies
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)For media planners to combine multiple media across platforms to maximize synergy is a critical challenge within integrated marketing communication. For this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with experienced media ... -
Toward an African definition of resilience: a rural South African cummunity’s view of resilient Basotho youth
(Sage Publications, 2013)Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures. This emerging understanding has urged ... -
Towards a computational morphological analysis of Setswana compound
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Towards a disaster risk assessment methodology for communities underlain by dolomite
(Emerald Group Publishing, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide a robust and simple methodology for disaster risk management officials to assess the total disaster risk posed by dolomite in urban areas of South Africa. Design/methodo ... -
Towards a project-based service delivery approach : Uncovering organisational tensions
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Towards a project-based service delivery approach: uncovering organisational tensions
(ASSADPAM, 2009)In line with the modernizing, re-inventing and alternative service delivery paradigm, governments increasingly utilise project-based methodologies to improve service delivery. There is general agreement that projects are ... -
Towards a public participation strategy for community policing forums : the case of Tlokwe Local Municipality
(CRIMSA, 2016)In any democratic dispensation, public participation is a widespread concern and highly topical to guide a discourse on openness, transparency and inclusiveness in governance. The South African Constitution (Section 215) ... -
Towards a responsible agenda for academic literacy development: considerations that will benefit students and society
(South African Association of Language Teaching (SAALT), 2013)The transition from secondary to higher education (HE) requires a change of cultural mindset (cf. Darlaston-Jones et al., 2003; Leki, 2006). It is widely accepted that the academic performance and motivation of first year ... -
Towards a theory of presuppositions: Kuyperian contributions
(AOSIS, 2011)'n Teorie van vooronderstellings: Kuyperiaanse bydraes Een van die belangrikste temas van die huidige wetenskapsfilosofie is die ontdekking van vooronderstellings, aannames en raamwerke as faktore wat wetenskaplike navorsing ... -
Towards a typology of government interventionism in municipalities
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)Although significant progress has been made since democratisation in 1994, much still needs to be done before all local, district and metropolitan municipalities in South Africa are fully functional, sustainable, and ... -
Towards a typology of models in public administration and management as field of scientific inquiry
(University of Pretoria, 2013)Models are often the envisioned outcome of research endeavours in Public Administration and Management (PAM). Especially post-graduate studies intend to construct models as “ideal type” interventions to improve policy, ... -
Towards an E-Governance competency framework for public service managers: the South African experiment
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)The emergence of the so-called networked or knowledge society profoundly transforms governance approaches on a global scale by introducing new forms of collaboration and exchange between society and government. Government ... -
Towards contextualising stakeholder relationship indicators for corporate-community relationships
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)In circumstances that are substantially different from the norm, new ways of thinking about those alternative contexts are necessary. In the context of corporate governance and corporate social investment (CSI) the ... -
Towards engagement: a comparison of fan groups in the context of a major South African football club
(AOSIS, 2016)Orientation: The commercial growth of sport clubs is often a direct consequence of the level of engagement of its fans. However, limited research has been done to understand how the engagement experience of these fans could ... -
Towards happiness interventions: construct clarification and intervention methodologies
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the main streams of research on happiness, the approaches/models flowing from these philosophies and the methodology of happiness interventions. A systematic review was performed ... -
Towards happiness: experiences of work-role fit, meaningfulness and work engagement of industrial/organisational psychologists in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2010)Orientation: The work of industrial/organisational (I/O) psychologists presents an interesting and relevant context for studying meaning and engagement as components of happiness. Research purpose: The aim of this study ... -
Towards happiness: Experiences of work–role fit, meaningfulness and work engagement of industrial/organisational psychologists in South Africa
(OASIS, 2010)Orientation: The work of industrial/organisational (I/O) psychologists presents an interesting and relevant context for studying meaning and engagement as components of happiness. Research purpose: The aim of this study ... -
Towards more effective academic liaison between academics, students and practitioners in the field of public administration and management in the North West Province
(Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte / Potchefstroom, 2008)In view of South Africa’s diversity, its unresolved issues of race and complex social legacy, election campaigns are highly sensitive. From a Reformed Christian perspective, a critical question is: To what extent is the ... -
Towards standardisation: a comparison of two versions of an academic literacy test
(SAALT, 2014)All versions of a standardised test should be at similar difficulty levels. In this article, we investigate whether two versions of TAG ("Toets van Akademiese Geletterdheidsvlakke") are valid and whether they are at the ...