Economic Development and South Africa: 25 Years Analysis (1994 to 2019)

Dhamija, Pavitra

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“…The prime focus was to recognize the available practices under the employee development that address the desires of the Generation-Z employees to remain at the IT workplace in the post-COVID-19 environment. Based on previous works from Bos-Nehles and Renkema (2017), Dhamija (2020) and Baliga et al (2020), for this paper, four stages of systematic literature search process has been adopted; the process is illustrated in Table 4.…”

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Employee development and retention of Generation-Z employees in the post-COVID-19 workplace: a conceptual framework

Jayathilake

Daud

Eaw

et al. 2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to demonstrate a conceptual framework on employee development, organizational performances and retention of Generation-Z employees in the new normal environment beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachWith referring to the present literature and utilizing social-exchange and human needs approach, from this study, the authors illustrate a conceptual framework with democratize learning, reverse mentoring and intrepreneurship as key modifications for employee development perspective to retain Generation-Z employees and enhance organizational performance to secure the competitiveness.FindingsDemocratize learning, reverse mentoring and intrapreneurship have a significant potential impact on enhancing Generation-Z employees' development which may effect on attaining better organizational performance and employee retention. In addition, organizational performance may have a moderating effect on employee intention to stay longer.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed conceptual framework would be empirically validated in future research.Practical implicationsBased on the framework, the authors suggest approaches for Generation-Z specific retention strategies on upgrading the employee development subcategory under human resource function in terms of minimizing the disadvantages that are associated with the work from home concept in a post-COVID-19 pandemic era.Originality/valueOne of the very first studies to propose a holistic framework on employee development that subsequently impact on retaining Generation-Z employees in a pandemic situation. This article enriches the human resource management literature by explaining the novel moderating relationship that articulated from organizational performance to employee retention and focussing on Generation-Z employees (younger generation employees).

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Employee development and retention of Generation-Z employees in the post-COVID-19 workplace: a conceptual framework

Jayathilake

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“…The absurdity of attempts to explain the continued severity of the sufferance of the majority of South Africans under a constitutional democracy by predicating such understandings against the cruelty of apartheid amounts to academic intellectual sloth and political denialism (see Maharaj, Desai & Bond, 2011;Tsheola & Lukhele, 2014;Tsheola, Ramonyai & Segage, 2014). Whilst the ruling ANC remain consumed with itself (Tsheola & Molefe, 2019;Boesak, 2023), the governance mechanisms in almost all spheres of the South African existence have been deficient and defective (Tsheola & Sebola, 2012;Tsheola, 2013Tsheola, , 2017Dhamija, 2020;. The inexplicable replacement of the 1994 Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) with the 1996 foreign-grown Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) revealed the ANC's governance utopianism which is inconsistent with the uniqueness of the spatiality and geography difference of South Africa (see Tsheola, 2002aTsheola, , 2002b.…”

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“…Regarding the former national liberation movement's aspiration to achieve "a better life for all" South Africans, the adoption of GEAR was always going to be deficient as well as the hyperbolic launch of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) together with the Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition (Jipsa) in 2006, proved to be deficient (see Tsheola, 2012b). At the point of twenty years of the democratic experiment, it was already unambiguously evident that the promise of "a better life for all" was a pipe dream (see Tsheola & Sebola, 2012;Tsheola, 2013Tsheola, , 2017Tsheola & Lukhele, 2014;Tsheola, Ramonyai & Segage, 2014;Chipkin, 2016;Dhamija, 2020;. Since then, the ANC government has virtually subjected South Africans to a dizzying rollercoaster of basic services deficiencies, poverty, inequality, unemployment, corruption, state capture and dysfunctional state institutions, violence and defective governance (see Chipkin 2016;Fazekas & Tóth, 2016;Labuschagne, 2017;Mamabolo & Tsheola, 2017;Tsheola & Mmotlana, 2018;de Klerk & Solomon, 2019;Tsheola & Molefe, 2019;Dhamija, 2020;.…”

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“…At the point of twenty years of the democratic experiment, it was already unambiguously evident that the promise of "a better life for all" was a pipe dream (see Tsheola & Sebola, 2012;Tsheola, 2013Tsheola, , 2017Tsheola & Lukhele, 2014;Tsheola, Ramonyai & Segage, 2014;Chipkin, 2016;Dhamija, 2020;. Since then, the ANC government has virtually subjected South Africans to a dizzying rollercoaster of basic services deficiencies, poverty, inequality, unemployment, corruption, state capture and dysfunctional state institutions, violence and defective governance (see Chipkin 2016;Fazekas & Tóth, 2016;Labuschagne, 2017;Mamabolo & Tsheola, 2017;Tsheola & Mmotlana, 2018;de Klerk & Solomon, 2019;Tsheola & Molefe, 2019;Dhamija, 2020;. To this extent, this paper seeks to frame a theoretical argument that suggests that the locus of the reasons for a democratic South Africa being in its current state of despair, facing a realistic disaster, has to be established in the academic and political arenas, wherein fixation on scientific dogma, conceptual binaries and governance utopianisms has scorched lived experiences of all South Africans.…”

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“…Whereas the Bill of Rights, which is enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, commands that the state must take "reasonable measures" to ensure that citizens' rights to basic services are progressively realised (RSA, 1996), almost 30 years later the majority in the nation continue to be exposed to high risks of insecurity, violence, illegality, corruption, crime and poverty. Indeed, there are significant lapses in South Africa's governance in relation to democratic constitutionalism, the authority of the state, security, legality, order, stability, ethics and morality (Tsheola & Sebola, 2012;Tsheola, 2013Tsheola, , 2017Dhamija, 2020;Calland & Sithole, 2021;Bennun, 2023;Boesak, 2023). The continued sufferance of the majority of South Africans in terms of the sub-standard conditions of living under the democratic dispensation has been established and corroborated by the violent service delivery protests (Tsheola, 2012a;Tsheola & Sebola, 2012;Tsheola, Ramonyai & Segage, 2014;Tsheola & Mmotlana, 2018;Tsheola & Molefe, 2019).…”

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This article explores theorisation that identifies the locus of South Africa’s scorched-earth lived experiences in the fixation on scientific dogma and conceptual binaries as well as governance utopianisms, wherein the latter are derivatives of the former. It explores South African’s lived experiences over the past 28 years in order to demonstrate that politicians’ reverence for governance utopianism has failed to appreciate the unity of realities, facts, values, objectivities, subjectivities, permanences, fluxes and changes, which consist of complex intricacies that are not amenable to dogmatic “incontrovertibly true” sets of authoritative principles and catchy governance utopianisms, because humanity’s imagination and creative thought are experimental in nature given the diversity of spatialities and “geography differences.” From desktop-based research literature survey and theorisation, the article advances a theoretical argument that if “science is one,” and if reality is unitary, then fragmentary theories and models are creatures of humanity’s world of imperfections. Additionally, the article analyses statistical evidence drawn from Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) in order to demonstrate that the scorched-earth metaphor is real for South Africa’s 28-year democratic governance. It finds that in South Africa’s twenty-eight years of democratic experiment, lived experiences resemble scorched-earth metaphor with no silver lining in sight. Philosophically, the paper concludes that if what resides on God’s left is on humanity’s right, then the “rightness” and/or “leftness” of people consists of intractable complexities of particularity, individuality and incommunicability that have led to fragmentary science, fixation on dogma and binaries as well as politicians’ reverence for governance utopianisms, simultaneously as society’s lived experiences resemble normalised scorched-earth.

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Economic Development and South Africa: 25 Years Analysis (1994 to 2019)

Cited by 3 publications

References 107 publications

Employee development and retention of Generation-Z employees in the post-COVID-19 workplace: a conceptual framework

Employee development and retention of Generation-Z employees in the post-COVID-19 workplace: a conceptual framework

Scorched-earth democratic South Africa: Governance utopianisms as derivatives of scientific dogma

Systematic Review of Agriculture and Era 4.0: The Most Relevant Insights

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