Employee Performance Management at a South African Government Organization

Performance management and employee engagement

Many contemporary organizations are placing a greater emphasis on their performance management systems as a means of generating higher levels of job performance. We suggest that producing performance increments may be best achieved by orienting the performance management system to promote employee engagement. To this end, we describe a new approach to the performance management process that inc...

Implementing Performance Management at Local Government Level in South Africa: a Case Study on the Impact of Organisational Culture

Employee Job Autonomy and Control in a Restructured Extension Organization

This descriptive cross sectional census study identified the perceptions of Extension and Outreach employees of Iowa State University in the United States about job autonomy and control after two years of a major restructuring. Employees perceived autonomy and control over expressing views and ideas about their work and spending time on the job but perceived little influence over budget allocat...

Public Management and Government Performance:

Government Domain Named Entity Recognition for South African Languages

This paper describes the named entity language resources developed as part of a development project for the South African languages. The development efforts focused on creating protocols and annotated data sets with at least 15,000 annotated named entity tokens for ten of the official South African languages. The description of the protocols and annotated data sets provide an overview of the pr...