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    CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AT THE SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK
    (2014-01-21) MOTHOBI, MASHADI ELAINE
    Women in development, women for development and women empowerment are phenomena which the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank use to define and implement the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) around the world. This study seeks to explore the implementation of women development as a change management intervention in the case of the South Africa Reserve Bank (the Bank). The researcher uses qualitative methods of interview and documents evidence to investigate mechanisms which the Bank uses to implement change management interventions for women development. The Bank faces challenges with regard to the upward mobility of women into senior positions, notwithstanding the implementation of a women leadership development programme. To explore this further, the researcher presents women development as a teleological change intervention, the best practices underlying the intervention and the change management framework that would explain where the challenges lie. The findings revealed that a women development intervention cannot be implemented unless it incorporates the underlying best practices for implementation. The findings also revealed that even if the latter were to be in place, organisations would not be able to implement the practices without an integrated change management framework. However, this view assumes that the intervention is an integral component of organisational strategy. The study proves that the appointment of women in senior positions within organisations is not unique to the Bank. The study recommends that the women development intervention approach should adopt best practice principles and these should be implemented using a robust change management framework. As a result, the study concludes that the Bank could explore and use the opportunity iii to become a trendsetter, a hub and a benchmark of women development in the central banking environment.
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    EXPLORATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING RURAL ENTERPRISING WOMEN IN LIBODE, EASTERN CAPE
    (2011-04-06) Dlakavu, Nandipha
    The research interrogates the trajectories of rural enterprises since many are in peripheral areas and are still lagging behind in terms of advancement. Through examining existing literature and by employing rigorous and participatory fieldwork including questionnaires, focus group interviews as well as key informant discussions, challenges confronting rural enterprising women were conceptualised. The findings reveal that domestic dynamics and cultural ideology obstruct entry into self-employment. Concomitantly, the study discovered that there are a variety of institutional factors influencing women's access to labour markets. Although it is envisaged that it would be a while and difficult for some of the challenges to be overcome as there is no magic wand for these problems, tentative recommendations are suggested for government interventions that would lead to the empowerment of rural women. The study recommends proactive strategies that can minimise constraints on the entrepreneurial rural activities and provide the women with suitable business related services. The research is informed by the realisation that capacity building is important for the achievement of improved socio-economic practices among rural communities
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    Women's participation in school governing bodies.
    (2011-03-28) Chaka, Tsakani Agnes
    The study explores the experiences of women with the view of explaining why the participation of women in School Governing Bodies is marginal. Using primarily indepth interviews with women school governors, the study argues that while the respondents were committed and active participants within their respective SGBs, myriad of factors that thwart women’s experiences of democracy in school governing bodies: cultural attitudes, social structure, political structure, discrimination, personalities, work commitments, ill-health and spatial/geographic situatedness. For some women, the experiences are so undesirable that they bow out of the school governing bodies and they have no hope of ever participating again.