CASE STUDY QUESTION

From 1948 to 1991, the South African government had enforced apartheid, a policy of racial "separatism" that favored the less than ten percent of the population defined as white. Non-white people could not own property or run businesses outside "reserved" areas, and the government forcibly resettled more than three million people to black "homelands," areas that were described as creating separate nation-states for ethnic groups. Non-whites had to have a work pass to enter areas designated white. Public gatherings were forbidden outside of church meetings, and black voting was allowed only in homelands, far from population centers.

Conflict within the country turned violent. Violence spread on all sides: 4,000 people were killed and 50,000 were detained without trial during the revolts in the 1960s. Black leaders were exiled or imprisoned, and speaking up against government policy led to threatened with arrest or worse. In 1962, the United Nations proclaimed sanctions, and many countries enacted their own trade restrictions. In the 1980s, a divestment movement pressured investors not to buy shares in companies doing business in South Africa, leading many international companies to withdraw from the country.

In spite of the country's history of oppression and violence, when F. W. de Klerk became president in 1989, he broke with the earlier policies of the National Party and immediately called for a nonracist South Africa. The African National Congress (ANC) was "unbanned" and its leaders returned from exile. Other leaders were freed from prison - Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment. The government began rescinding apartheid laws. De Klerk then negotiated with Mandela and the ANC to move the country toward peaceful elections. Negotiations led to a new constitution, which guaranteed freedom of speech and religion and prohibited discrimination.

In 1994, South Africa held its first free elections, marking a peaceful transition from a government controlled by the country's white minority. The African National Congress (ANC) won over 62% of the vote in the election, in which 16 million of the 21.7 million eligible voters had never voted before. The new government was led by the ANC's Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, with the National Party's de Klerk as First Deputy.

Examining the role of business in South Africa's historic transition leads to key questions - what factors led business leaders here act to push the country's future away from isolation and missed opportunities toward to a "high road" of participating in an increasingly globalized economy? How effective were they? And, if business leadership played an important role in the events in South Africa, could they take a similar role elsewhere?

1. All of the corporation's elements that have a decisional, organizing, informational, motivational character, and complete which the entire set of administration processes and relationships are being keep fit in order to achieve the best usefulness and the highest effectiveness - outlines:

2. The entrepreneurial-managerial method of designing and promoting a new business or of significantly developing an existing one, method that starts with identifying an economic opportunity and by which one determines the objectives that are to be accomplished, sizes and structures the main resources and activities, aiming to prove that it can be profitable and it is worth to be supported by the potential stakeholders - is

3. The method used in management that consists in identifying the strengths and the weaknesses of the analyzed area together with their respective causes, and that is finalized by making corrective or developmental suggestions - is named as:

4. The quantity of personnel a administrator can _________resourcefully and effectively accomplish characterizes_______---

5. The major shortages in the announcement process__________ (the most momentous barriers to communiqu) can be______

6. The course an material_________ or a grouping of information follows between the correspondent and the earpiece outlines_____

7. The functional areas of the company are: a. research-development; b. finance-accounting; c. commercial; d. organizing; e. planning; f. motivating; g. control-evaluation; h. human resources; i. coordinating; j. manufacturing/operations

8. The decision that has direct consequences on the decisions, actions and behaviors of at least another person- is a decision:

9. The golden triangle of organizing refers to the judicious connection of: a. tasks; b. activities; c. duties; d. competencies; e. responsibilities.

10. The decision that has direct consequences on the decisions, actions and behaviors of at least another person- is a decision