Control and accountability in supply chain management: Evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality

Sibanda, Modeni M.; Zindi, Beauty; Maramura, Tafadzwa Clementine

doi:10.1080/23311975.2020.1785105

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“…On the other hand, organizational theory describes that the empowerment is to delegate the authority to another person within the organization to perform any specific job activity (Mohajan, 2018). As per Sibanda et al, (2020) societal psychological theory describes that empowerment is the core cause behind the employee working and around working situation and he also elaborated six different related points like "potency, motivation, independence, values, relevancy and joy of life". It is as well as relevant to the employee inside growth, confidence, self-understanding and development (Khalid, et al, 2019).…”

Section: Employee Empowermentmentioning

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Relationship of Employee Training, Employee Empowerment, Team Work With Job Satisfaction

Kayani

Mir

2020

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Current research is designed to check the impact of employee training, employee empowerment, team work on job satisfaction. Employee training, employee empowerment, team work are independent variables and job satisfaction is dependent variable. Overall, 160 employees of banks employees who are working at managerial level are selected randomly. Results indicates that employee training, employee empowerment, team work has significant positive impact on job satisfaction. It is also seen that teamwork is emerging as strong predictor of job satisfaction the employee empowerment is second good predictor of job satisfaction. In future researches, this kind of researches will be also conducted in other kind of industries like hotel industry, telecom sector and education sector. In future researches some other potential predictors of job satisfaction like employee compensation, employee appraisal will also include. It is also better to include some better outcomes like employee loyalty and employee productivity for generalization.

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Section: Employee Empowermentmentioning

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Relationship of Employee Training, Employee Empowerment, Team Work With Job Satisfaction

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Mir

2020

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“…The implementation of these financial management goals can be analysed to evaluate their actualisation. Sibanda, Zindi and Maramura (2020) stated that the evaluation of the financial management goals involves an analysis of how effectively the financial resources have been managed to achieve the optimal goals of the municipality. The analysis of the actualisation of these goals in South Africa has revealed that there is financial mismanagement that can be described as unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure causing financial distress (Glasser & Wright 2020).…”

Section: Financial Mismanagement In South Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dlomo (2017) Furthermore, the Act describes expenditure that was not incurred in the manner prescribed by the legislation; this expenditure might have been incurred out of the budgetary guidelines, for instance, somewhere in the process that led to the expenditure, and the auditee did not comply with the applicable legislation that is stipulated in Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003. Monkam (2014) stated that financial mismanagement in South Africa is a result of failures that are derived from poor supply chain management, performance reporting and risk management, whilst Sibanda et al (2020) found that one of the causes of financial mismanagement is inefficient internal control measures. Dlomo (2017) and Glasser and Wright (2020) also identified that municipalities in South Africa have poor internal control systems, and there is a need for the effective implementation of internal control measures to ensure that financial activities are completely accounted for and presented.…”

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Financial mismanagement and efficiency trade-off in local municipalities: Lessons from Eastern Cape, South Africa

Mishi

Mbaleki

Mushonga

2022

j. gov. res. innov.

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Background: Local governments are considered an essential part of interpreting and integrating laws and policies at the local level. There is a growing realisation that the success of local government is vital to alleviating poverty and delivering services to communities. However, financial mismanagement as per audit reports has affected a number of local authorities and continues to be a hindrance to progress.Aim: This study was set to investigate the level of efficiency in each municipality and how financial mismanagement (unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure) influences that efficiency.Setting: The study considered all local municipalities within the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, using publicly available data on each municipality’s performance and financial management. The data available and utilised are for the financial years 2012–2015.Methods: The study used a non-parametric linear programming-based technique to compute efficiencies, with the local municipality being the decision-making unit. The implications of financial mismanagement on efficiency are determined in a second-stage regression model with the use of panel tobit regression.Results: We found that the mean efficiency ranges between 0.407 (moderate) and 0.724 (high) in general, however, with greater variation across municipalities. Fruitless and wasteful expenditure and unauthorised expenditure negatively affect the total effciency scores. Irregular expenditure has no statistical effect on efficiency, arguably because of the nature of this financial mismanagement being expenditure that may be for a good cause but not approved procedurally.Conclusion: There is room to increase efficiency in studied municipalities, especially by reducing wasteful expenditure and unauthorised expenditure. The Public Finance Management Act provides astute guidelines that will bring efficiencies in municipalities; however, a review may be necessary to be progressive. The South African Local Government Association and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department must capacitate municipalities and work with the auditor general to implement audit recommendations.

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“…Christopher (2015:957) identifies the lack of transparency and accountability measures in various South African municipalities as triggering inequalities and distracting municipal efforts of providing clean water and sanitation to the communities in need. In another study, Sibanda et al (2020) lament the lack of accountability measures in municipalities that affect the effective delivery of goods and services to satisfy human needs and wants as enshrined in the HRBA. The worrying trend of limited accountability in municipal development programmes acts against government efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.…”

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COVID-19 and the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water and sanitation) in South Africa

Zindi

Shava

2022

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Background: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 demands that countries globally provide clean water and sanitation to their citizens. The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic triggered various obstacles to the attainment of this goal, especially in developing states that struggle to render clean water and sanitation to their ever-growing populations.Aim: The aim of the study is to analyse the effects of COVID-19 on the attainment of SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) in South African municipalities.Setting: Several South African municipalities.Methods: The article utilised expansive documentary sources on the SDGs, United Nations and World Health documents, journal articles and textbooks on water service provision in South African municipalities for analysis. Qualitative thematic analysis based on documents was employed to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the attainment of SDG 6 in South African municipalities.Results: The study indicates that local municipalities struggled to provide clean water to informal settlements where water supply infrastructure is not even available. Results also revealed that some urban municipalities in Gauteng Province are grappling with the provision of clean water supply to their informal settlements, which poses a risk of an outbreak of COVID-19 and a delay in the attainment of SDG 6 in general.Conclusion: The study concludes that the South African government needs to embrace a truly bottom-up approach as opposed to a trickle-down approach to water service provision. This is because local authorities have greater proximity and thus a better understanding of the social and economic challenges within their communities and can effectively implement strategies towards addressing these challenges of providing clean water to communities.

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Control and accountability in supply chain management: Evidence from a South African metropolitan municipality

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Relationship of Employee Training, Employee Empowerment, Team Work With Job Satisfaction

Relationship of Employee Training, Employee Empowerment, Team Work With Job Satisfaction

Financial mismanagement and efficiency trade-off in local municipalities: Lessons from Eastern Cape, South Africa

COVID-19 and the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water and sanitation) in South Africa

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