15TH WORLD PRODUCTIVITY CONGRESS

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PRESENTATION TO THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LABOUR
AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES (NCOP) 26 AUGUST 2009
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BACKGROUND

• Productivity Advisory Council established in
  1969
• Composition of Productivity Advisory Council
• - employer organisations
• - employee organisations
• - government
• National Productivity Institute became a section
  21 1975
• National Productivity Institute name changed to
  Productivity SA - 2007

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ESTABLISHMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY SA

• Productivity SA established under the new Skills
  Development Amendment Bill 37,2008
• Under the new Bill, complies with the
  requirements set out in Schedule 4 of the Bill

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VISION AND MISSION

• VISION
• To lead and inspire a productive and competitive
  South Africa.
• Mission
• Productivity SA is a tripartite organisation
  dedicated to the development and enhancement of
  South Africas productivity by unleashing the
  spirit of continuous productivity improvement in
  all South Africans.

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KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Productivity Promotion Campaign for South African
  Citizen
• Productivity in Public-Benefit Organisation
• Productivity in Enterprises (Social Plan,
  Workplace Challenge and SMMEs)
• Knowledge Management and Research
• Corporate Services (Human Resources and Finance)

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

• To promote a culture of productivity in
  workplaces
• To develop relevant productivity competencies
• To facilitate and evaluate productivity
  improvement and competitiveness in the workplaces
• To measure and evaluating productivity in the
  workplace
• To maintain a data-base of productivity and
  competitiveness systems and publicising these
  systems
• To undertake productivity related research
• To support initiatives aimed at preventing job
  losses
• To perform any other prescribed functions

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ALIGNMENT WITH THE MINISTERS PROGRAM OF ACTION

• Contribution to employment creation
• Enhancing Skills Development
• Strengthening multilateral and bilateral
  relations
• Promoting sound labour relations
• Monitoring the impact of legislation

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PRODUCTIVITY PROMOTION CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTH
AFRICAN CITIZEN

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PRODUCTIVITY AWARENESS

• OBJECTIVE
• To promote productivity awareness, through
• Championing productivity nationally
• Influencing key decision makers from business,
• labour and society to support the national
  productivity
• campaign
• Imparting productivity related knowledge at a
  strategic
• level to support the national productivity
  campaign

Projects
Accelerate the National productivity movement
campaign Increase productivity awareness Level

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NATIONAL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
PROJECTS
OBJECTIVES To popularise the National
Productivity Movement Enterprises (e.g.
waste reduction, continuous improvement,
Annual Productivity Awards) To dissemination of
productivity-related info. (Productivity magazine
and other forms)

• National Productivity Awareness Drive
• Promotion of Productivity Solutions (SP, WPC)
• Productivity related information

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH
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PRODUCTIVITY IN INDUSTRY
Projects

• In-depth research reports supporting
  sector development strategies
• Annual productivity statistics
  publications
• Annual reports on International competitiveness
  (IMD reports)
• Seminars for economic policy-shapers from
  Government, Business and Labour
• Research report on the impact of
  productivity on labour legislation

OBJECTIVES This intervention aims to
provide decision makers in Government, Business
and Labour with information and knowledge on
productivity of economic sectors to improve
competitiveness of our economy Initiate,
conduct and co-ordinate productivity related
research through a network of research partners
Generate information to influence policy
debates Collate and disseminate the results of
research Distil lessons learnt and best
practices from successful cases inside and
outside the country for adaptation and
application
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PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANISATONS
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PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANISATIONS
Projects

• OBJECTIVE
• To provide productivity training to
• intermediaries such as educators Skills
• Development Facilitators and Education
• and Training Development
• service providers to leverage our reach to
• organisations and communities

• Educators trained to train learners on
  productivity
• concepts
• Training of government and SOE managers
• Implement customised Continuous Productivity 
• improvement processes
• Accredited ETD service providers
• Productivity Training of Skills Development
• Facilitators
• Productivity improvement in one public-benefit
• organisation

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PRODUCTIVITY TRAINING
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PRODUCTIVITY IN ENTERPRISES
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TURNAROUND SOLUTIONS (SP)
Projects
OBJECTIVE To prevent a decline in the countrys
employment levels in organizations and sectors
in distress through turnaround interventions
To retain jobs by sustaining companies through
proactive solutions. To conduct Future Forums
and Early Warning Systems training for the
Social Plan

• Establish Future Forums (FF)
• Develop turnaround strategies
• Establish Early Warning System (EWS)
• Conduct Impact assessment
• Conduct industry desktop studies
• Orientation of in-company Productivity Champions
  on self-implementation process

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SECTORS/ACHIEVEMENTS
MORE THAT 96 000 JOBS IMPACTED UPON
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PROVINCES COVERED
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WORKPLACE CHALLENGE
Projects

• Enterprises nurtured
• Capacity building workshops
• (for companies participating in Clusters)
• Implement workplace transformation in clusters
• of between 6 and 9 enterprises.
• Clusters participating in the aftercare
  programme
• Model Companies established to enhance
• competitiveness through demonstrating to other
  companies
• Manufacturing centres implementing Continuous
• Improvement principles
• Implement awareness and dissemination programme

• To improve productivity and
• competitiveness of South African
• firms and sectors through
• constructive labour relations and
• the implementation of continuous
• improvement principles at the
• workplace

OBJECTIVE
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PRODUCTIVITY IN SMMEs
OBJECTIVE To develop increased number of
sustainable small micro enterprises through
productivity improvement To instil a culture of
productive behaviour and best productive
practices amongst the SMME sector

• Projects
• Productivity competencies for emerging
  entrepreneurs
• Small and Micro enterprises improved their
  survival by increasing
• their profitability annually

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Second Economy Interventions


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Second Economy Interventions


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CORPORATE SERVICES
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International Partnerships

• Projects
• Implementation of partnership projects with
• Asian Productivity Organisation (APO)
• Japan Productivity Centre for Socio Economic
  Development (JPC-SED)
• Productivity SA still serves as PAPA Secretariat
  of Pan African Productivity Association
• AU Labour and Social Affairs Commission

• OBJECTIVE

• To create a forum of transferring cutting-edge
  productivity knowledge and skills to Productivity
  SA and other National Productivity Organisations
  in Africa

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ORGANISATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Projects
HUMAN RESOURCE AND FINANCE

• Implement Risk Management Strategy
• Implement the Fraud Prevention policy
• MTEF Budget submitted to Treasury
• Annual budget submitted to Treasury
• Adherence to PFMA

OBJECTIVE To create an enabling environment,
that continuously ensures the alignment of
financial and material resources to
organizational strategy