Article: South Africa's labour productivity at 46-year low

South Africa's labour productivity reached a 46-year low in July, recruitment group Adcorp said on Monday.

"Since 1967, labour productivity has fallen from R7297 to R4924 a year, which is a decline of 32.5 percent," Adcorp said.
 
Restrictive labour regulations and a poor work ethic were among the most problematic factors for doing business in South Africa, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2012.

South Africa was the fifth-worst in the world for co-operation in labour-employer relations and flexibility of wage determination.

It was fourth-worst in the world for hiring and firing practices, and 13th worst for pay and productivity linkages, said Adcorp.
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agent!!!!!! :mad:

:rolleyes:
 
Fudzy said:
How is labour productivity measured?
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Quantity of output divided by number of employees (man hours). Both numerator and denominator can be converted to an actual value to give a Rand amount like in the article.
 
Rkootknir said:
Quantity of output divided by number of employees (man hours). Both numerator and denominator can be converted to an actual value to give a Rand amount like in the article.
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How is the Rand value calculated? I 30 years ago the labour laws were certainly no where near as protective as they are now, that all adds cost.
 
Increased worker protection from dismissal contained in the Labour Relations Act (1995) had made it harder for employers to manage poor performance from workers.

Secondly, the rise of bargaining councils had de-coupled wage increases from productivity gains, so that wages were no longer an incentive for improved productivity.

Prospects for labour productivity growth -- and consequently higher employment -- were exceedingly poor, said Adcorp.
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You don't have to look further than the unions to find someone who is to blame for this,
 
Secondly, the rise of bargaining councils had de-coupled wage increases from productivity gains, so that wages were no longer an incentive for improved productivity.
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There is nothing as de-motivational as working your ass off, only to be foiled by some group, and / or company, target that was not reached, thus not getting that increase or bonus.
Unions that bargain for increases for all their members, also makes employee performance reviews redundant, and takes potential increases away from non-union members that worked on average harder than the union members.
 
South Africans are lazy.

A lot of them think that, having obtained "freedom" in 1994, everything will fall into their laps and there is no need to work, cos government will provide.

Sickening.
 
blunomore said:
South Africans are lazy.

A lot of them think that, having obtained "freedom" in 1994, everything will fall into their laps and there is no need to work, cos government will provide.

Sickening.
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In general I would agree with you, but the South Africans that want to work, do work incredibly hard.
 
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