How Improved Productivity Can Help to Improve SA’s Unemployment Challenges

South Africa’s unemployment rate is currently sitting at 27,2%. That is one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. Obviously, unemployment is also having a negative effect on our country’s economy, which, in turn, leads to a further drop in the number of available jobs. It is a vicious cycle that seems impossible to end. However, research has shown that improving productivity in the workplace could help to combat the unemployment challenge in SA.

How?

Productivity within the workplace helps to fuel internal growth. The more an individual business grows the better for the overall economy of our country. Furthermore, the more a business grows, the more job opportunities there will be. The more new jobs that become available, the faster the current unemployment rate will drop. In short, improved productivity is a win-win situation for each individual organisation and the country as a whole.

How Can We Achieve This?

Productivity SA strives to transform productivity within South African organisations. According to CEO Mothunye Mothiba, “Productivity SA carries out its mandate by ensuring the implementation of its mission, which is to improve productivity by diagnosing, advising, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating solutions aimed at improving SA’s sustainable growth, development and employment through increased competitiveness.”

Productivity SA has developed three key programmes, which are all designed to increase productivity within companies:

1. Turnaround Solutions Programme
This provides technical support to enterprises with the aim of increasing profitability.

2. Workplace Challenge Programme
This programme is aimed at helping manufacturing companies in SA to become more competitive through the adoption of best-operating practices. The programme supports change in the workplace to enable improved company performance, productivity and job creation.

3. Productivity Organisational Solutions
This programme focuses on training, which offers an understanding of productivity as a key technical and managerial concept. POS focuses on measuring productivity and the factors that influence it, in order to optimise enterprise resources.

Are you interested in enhancing productivity in your company? Then contact us today to learn more about our productivity solutions for both the public and private sector.