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Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality
Dissertation (MAdmin)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/46156 Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality Nhede, Norman Tafirenyika Maupa, Vusi Ernest UCTD Dissertation (MAdmin)--University of Pretoria, 2014. A high number of skilled engineers continue to leave the Emalahleni Local Municipality subject to a skills shortage leading to poor public service delivery in the municipality. The exodus of engineers from the municipality to the surrounding mining and steel mill industries raises a serious concern for the municipality since it cannot fully satisfy its constitutional mandate of public service delivery to the local households. It is the conviction of this study that municipalities need to develop strong and sustainable administrative capacity to retain scarce and critical skills. This is because administrative capacity has a direct impact on the skills capacity of municipal institutions. This study explores the retention strategies for engineering interns pertinent to the Emalahleni Local Municipality. This is done with the intention of determining the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in attracting and retaining critical skills using internship programmes. Using the analysis of documents as a means of data gathering, the study presents three case studies of internship programmes from two distinct government institutions. The case studies reveals that these two government institutions have a similar policy approach to internship programmes, but there is a variance in the practical administration of the programmes. The study concludes that it is the practical administration of internship programmes and policies that determine the weaknesses and strengths of the programmes in as far as the retention of scarce skills is concerned. tm2015 School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) MAdmin Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:07:00Z 2015-07-02T11:07:00Z 2015/04/23 2014 Dissertation Maupa, VE 2014, Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality, MAdmin Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46156> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46156 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality |
| title | Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality |
| title_full | Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality |
| title_fullStr | Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality |
| title_short | Skills retention and internship programmes : the case of engineers in Emalahleni Local Municipality |
| title_sort | skills retention and internship programmes the case of engineers in emalahleni local municipality |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46156 |