- Title
- Transformation in the Ministry of Defence of South Sudan: An organizational change management approach
- Creator
- Nyuon, Mayen Garang Malual
- Subject
- Organizational change
- Subject
- Reengineering (Management)
- Date
- 2015-09
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25338
- Identifier
- vital:64146
- Description
- The purpose of this study assessed Transformation Strategy of 2012 - 2017 of the Ministry of Defence, which was developed as a set of objectives and principles to facilitate effective transformation and change management approach. Further, the effectiveness of public service reforms, public institutions restructuring and management of transformation policy in the Ministry of Defence is examined. This is to establish areas of compliance with existing structures in the public institutions of the government of South Sudan. Furthermore, this study examined practical experiences from South Sudan and the international experience of the public service reforms in some leading countries in Africa such as South Africa and Nigeria and also Rwanda public sector reform is assessed. In this study, the strengths and weakness of transformation process in the Ministry of Defence was analyzed. It is revealed that human resource management in Ministry of Defence enhanced knowledge in transformation process. The literature related to Transformation in the Ministry of Defence of South Sudan: organizational change and change management approach was reviewed, critically analyzing the knowledge gap that exists. Specifically the literature reviewed was in the areas of organizational change and importance of change management approach. The study was mainly quantitative though qualitative research paradigm was also engaged. It was cross sectional in nature involving a number of respondents who were in the Ministry of Defence. This study used exploratory design with the intention to explore and describe the public service transformation processes in Ministry of Defence. However, the research involved structured interviews and an in-depth investigation to understand the effect of public service transformation and change management strategy and its impact on the management and the structures of the Ministry of Defence. This was achieved through vital techniques and research instruments such as mixed research design. The findings of this study, the number shows that how transformation and reforms policies are formulated and implementation is the only problem facing the Ministry of Defence. This required Ministry to change the strategy of non-implementation of policies and to adapt effective implementation to ensure accountability and transparency to materialize change in the SPLA and Ministry as a whole.
- Description
- Thesis (MPA) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2015
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (138 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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