Assessing HR and Strategies Development in South Africa and SETA's

This report meticulously examines the critical role of Human Resources and Strategies Development in South Africa, with a specific focus on the Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs). The research delves into the significance of HR strategies in supporting financial progress and development programs, emphasizing the importance of skills development and the functions of SETAs. The study employs a qualitative research design, utilizing interviews with SETA managers to gather primary data and secondary sources like academic literature and reports. The report covers various aspects including the research methodology, findings from data analysis, interrelationships between findings and data, and limitations. It also discusses ethical considerations, data gathering instruments, and provides conclusions and recommendations. The research underscores the impact of HR strategies on South Africa's public sector and the role of SETAs in driving productivity and improving service quality, providing valuable insights for organizational development and strategic planning within the South African context.

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Table of Contents
REFLECTIVE EXERCISE 1.................................................................................................4
Problem Statement.....................................................................................................................4
Research Motivation..................................................................................................................5
Related Academic Literature......................................................................................................5
Research Paradigm.....................................................................................................................6
Scope of Research......................................................................................................................7
The Sequence of Research Activities for Collecting Information/Data.....................................8
Time Frame................................................................................................................................9
Research Participants...............................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................11
Present/Discuss Your Chosen Research Topic........................................................................11
The Key Arguments and Findings from Pertinent Literature and Critical Review on It.........12
The Main Research Question(S), Reason Behind The Interest In The Topic And Questions,
The Motivation For Your Research, The Link Between Your Topic/Questions And Existing
Research Literature..................................................................................................................13
The Feasibility of the Study and the Way Access Can Be Gained For Collecting Data.........14
Conclusion................................................................................................................................15
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.........................................................................................16
Qualitative design.....................................................................................................................16
Interviews.................................................................................................................................17
Use of Questionnaires..............................................................................................................19
Action research.........................................................................................................................20
Epistemological stance.............................................................................................................20
Threats to Reliability and Validity of the Research Design.....................................................21
Procedure for Selecting Participants........................................................................................21
Problems to be Encountered when Accessing Data.................................................................21
Ethical Consideration...............................................................................................................22
Pilot Data Gathering Instruments.............................................................................................22
Data Gathering Instruments.....................................................................................................22
Findings from The Data...........................................................................................................23
Discussion................................................................................................................................23
DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS...................................................................................25
Introduction..............................................................................................................................25

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Findings....................................................................................................................................25
Interrelationship between the Research Findings and the Collected Data...............................26
Research Limitation.................................................................................................................26
Conclusion and Recommendation............................................................................................27
Bibliography...........................................................................................................................28

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REFLECTIVE EXERCISE 1
Problem statement. Plan a research assignment on a topic of your choice. Choose something
that you have some knowledge about and, preferably, are interested in, that you will be able
to write an assignment of not more than ten pages on. You must cover the following in your
research plan:
Problem Statement
The topic of research is to assess the importance of Human resources and Strategies
Development in South Africa and Seta’s. The Human resources and Strategies Development
is very important to support the financial progress and development programmes (Collis and
Hussey, 2013). The human resource development strategies are significant to establish the
sound foundation for proper application of human resource development of the nation. The
functions of the statutory National Skills Authority is to apply the strategies related to skills
development, review the act, and report the development made by Sector Education and
Training Authorities. In the reference of South Africa, the training and development has
consideration in recent times as the mean stating the precarious people development
advantages (Saunders, Lewis and Thornhill, 2012).
The significance of the human resource development strategy is identified by the
governments and shared via the businesses, NGO, workers, and the educational sectors of the
societies of South Africa. The human resource development strategy is very significant in the
recent time. The human resource development strategies have been identified as vital
instrument in the strategies of the governments to hasten the growth or development. The
framework is that the National Ministries of Education and Labour established the new
administrative structure for the human resource development in South Africa, namely the

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National Human Resource Development Strategy or NHRDS in year 2001. The major
objective of National Human Resource Development Strategy was to render the plans to
make sure that human beings in South Africa are prepared to take complete participation in
the societies of South Africa, to be capable to search or conduct the work, and to help justly
from this (Houston, 2004).
Research Motivation
I have chosen the topic’ Why Human Resource Development Strategies in South Africa and
Setas are so important. The reason is that it is very essential to know the nature, scope, idea,
concept, and the significance establishment of Human Resource Development (HRD),
Human Resource Management (HRM), education, learning and training. The main research
motivation behind this research study is to assess the impact of the significant outer variables
on the procedure of Human Resource Development in the structural setting in public sector.
This research study is also very important to know the requirement of the National Human
Resource Development Strategy in South Africa. This research study is beneficial to render
the proper investigation of a legislature and policy framework for Human Resource
Development in public sector of South Africa with the impact of transformation of South
Africa after year 1994 (Bell and Bryman, 2007).
Related Academic Literature
This topic of ‘significance of Human Resource Development Strategies in South Africa and
seta’s’ has been also discussed in other academic literature. The one of related academic
journal article is ‘New Challenges for South African Development and Training-Linkages to
Empirical Research (Jinabhai, 2005).’ The other related academic journal is ‘The Role of
Human Resources Management on Enhancing the Teaching Skills of Faculty Members
(Rafiei and Davari, 2015).

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Research Paradigm
The present investigation has been done on the basis of interpretivism paradigm, the same
will be applied in order to describe the underlying meaning of (Importance of Human
resources and Strategies Development in South Africa and Seta’s). The rationale of using this
paradigm is to interpret the reality, through qualitative method, in form of interview with the
managers of Seta’s. The reason behind using this design is to facilitate better comprehension
of the existing situation.
The current investigation has considered the exploratory research design, because the
research problems are to be addressed in form of interview and with the help of secondary
data analysis obtained from the literature review. The exploratory research design is best
suitable with the qualitative and inductive reasoning (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2017). The
interpretivism paradigm emphasizes on qualitative study over quantitative study. Further, it
assists in developing theories, as the existing theories are insufficient to analyze the intricacy
of the situation being examined.
The study will take inductive approach, to develop an ideal data base and behavior of
research participants will assessed to reach at a valid conclusion. For this task, range of
observation is approached from specific to general.
The research will be purely based on qualitative methods, qualitative interview will be
conducted to obtain relevant data, and the same will be observed with the identification of
themes. The research method will emphasize on specific information and data, as it is a pure
observational study conducted to assess the importance of HR and strategies development.
The qualitative data will be considered; sine the main purpose of the study is to describe the

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phenomena on the basis of the perception of managers in a given situation (Taylor, Bogdan
and DeVault, 2015).
Following to this, purposive sampling will be given more significance; it is because the
investigation will be primarily conducted to fulfil the cited purpose. This sampling type is
employed as it is highly appropriate to answer the research questions (Walliman, 2017). The
data will be collected through primary as well as secondary data collection method. For the
secondary sources, books, journals, Seta’s annual reports will be considered. On the other
hand, the primary data will be collected through interview held from the managers of Seta.
Ethics will be significantly considered in the present investigation, only valid and reliable
sources will be takes plus honesty, integrity, confidentiality and security will be given
priority. The research participants will be fully made aware of the research purpose and
objectives (Kumar, 2019). They will not be forced to join or leave the research.
Scope of Research
The scope of the research lies in the aspects to assess the importance of Human resources and
Strategies Development in South Africa and Seta’s. With the continuous investigation on the
human resources and development of strategies in the South Africa, firms will be able to have
better understanding on overall HRM, HRD, training and development and other influences
of significant factors in an organizational setting. Adding to this, the scope of study enables
the Seta to consider strategies for human resource and development in future, so that they can
work out their best efforts and stage of HRM can be improved. It is evidenced that; human
resources have been playing a significant role in the operations and success of organization.
Thereby developing appropriate strategies for them is highly crucial and researching on the
same topic is proved to be very significant, lending better scope to the study.

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The Sequence of Research Activities for Collecting Information/Data
Initially, I will identify the scope of the study through determining research questions and
objectives. Thereafter; I will explore previous studies and research topics and prepare the
draft of literature review for better understanding on the subject matter. Based on the
information attained, I will obtain primary data from interviewing the managers of Seta and
asking them relevant questions. Side by side, I will acquire valid and reliable secondary
information relevant published textbooks, articles and internet sources. Following to this,
data analysis and interpretation will be conducted, wherein I will rigorously interpret and
analyze the data to reach justified solutions. On the basis of data, final conclusion and
recommendations will be made to assist the firm in developing effective strategies for the
better management of human resources, and this will thereof help in realizing the underlying
importance and relation of Human resources and Strategies Development.

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Time Frame
Steps Description Week
1 Introductory Stage
Identification of the area of interest 1
Topic will be selected and approved from tutor 2
Topic will be refined for the development of dissertation 3
Proposal will be made, and submission will be done 4
2 Chapters 1-3 finished
Draft will be completed for introduction 5
Literature review draft will be completed 6
Draft on research methodology will be completed 7
3 Data collection
Data analysis and Interpretation 8
Completion of Data Analysis and Discussion 8
Conclusions and recommendations 8
4 Final Writing up
Structure, presentation and proof reading 9
5 Final Stage
Final proof reading and checking 9

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6 Project Submission 10
Research Participants
The research participants of the study will be the managers of SETA; they are selected by
considering their eligibility and knowledge. As they would be able to provide authentic,
viable and reliable information, related to the main topic. This will help in gaining better
insights and empathy on Human resources and Strategies Development in the organization.
The reason behind selecting these participants is that they are best aware of the strategies and
human resources of the SETA and will provide optimal answers to the asked question

INTRODUCTION
In this following assignment, the main focus is on human resource management and
development and its significance in the public sector of South Africa. On the other hand, the role
of SETA in South Africa’s public sector can also be understood in this work. It states the
methods that are needed to be taken and along with this, it also explains about the needs of using
the training and development procedures for the betterment of the employees in the organization
of South Africa. It also describes the way of delivering the productivity and improvement of
service quality. The following work provides some research questions and also explains the
motivation for the research work.
Present/Discuss Your Chosen Research Topic
The present topic states about the importance of human resources and the strategic development
in South Africa and SETA’s. It has been understood that for the purpose of training and
development in South Africa, certain steps are taken into consideration. Human resource
management plays a vital role in the development of South Africa and SETA’s. It has been
noticed that the strategies that are used in the human resource development processes are helpful
for understanding or tracking the share of the Governments in the NGOs, businesses, educational
sectors and workers of the South African societies (Ngandu et al., 2017). In other words, it can
be stated that human resource development strategies help in understanding the need for standing
with the Sector Education and Training Authority. The main aim of human resource management
is to identify the issues that are approaching in the path of development. On the other hand, it
also aims to prepare certain plans that will be helpful enough for the people of South Africa to
participate in the training and development process.

Human resource management helps in supporting the economic growth and programs for
bringing development among the people of South Africa. It has been noticed that human
resource uses different strategies for SETA’s betterment. With the help of these, the HRD will
also be able to provide training and education to the people of South Africa. Thus, it can be
stated that human resource management plays a huge role in managing the educational and
training factors among the people of South Africa. SETA usually promotes its development skills
along with the HRM (Ndedi and Kok, 2017). It aims to provide training and education to the
workforce of South Africa. In addition to this, it also helps in improving the working condition
of the workers as well as it delivers certain steps through which, they will be able to improve
their production accordingly.
The Key Arguments and Findings from Pertinent Literature and Critical
Review on It
According to the perception of, Rafiei and Davari, (2015), it has been observed that human
resource management focuses on the working class of South Africa. It takes certain initiatives for
improving the condition of the workers. It delivers basic training facilities and development
programs to the workers. Human resource management tries to develop the skills of the people
so that they can work in an efficient manner. The needs and wants of the staffs are also
considered by the HRM (Rafiei and Davari, 2015). Different practices can be noticed in the
HRM of the organization. The HRM of South Africa uses the selection strategy for selecting
appropriate staff members for the work product.
After the selection process, training is given with the help of SETA. It makes the members so
efficient that they become capable enough of delivering better productivity and performance to