Empowering South Africa Through Productivity: Presentation to the Select Committee

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

2. 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 Institutename changed to Productivity SA - 2007

3. 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

4. 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 Africa’s productivity by unleashing the spirit of continuous productivity improvement in all South Africans.

5. KEY FOCUS AREAS • Productivity Promotion Campaign for South African Citizen • Productivity in Public-Benefit Organisation • Productivity in Enterprises (Social Plan, Workplace Challenge and SMME’s) • Knowledge Management and Research • Corporate Services (Human Resources and Finance)

6. 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

7. ALIGNMENT WITH THE MINISTER’S PROGRAM OF ACTION • Contribution to employment creation • Enhancing Skills Development • Strengthening multilateral and bilateral relations • Promoting sound labour relations • Monitoring the impact of legislation

8. PRODUCTIVITY PROMOTION CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTH AFRICAN CITIZEN

9. 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

10. 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 AWARENESS CAMPAIGN • National Productivity Awareness Drive • Promotion of Productivity Solutions (SP, WPC) • Productivity related information

11. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH

12. 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

13. PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANISATONS

14. 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

15. PRODUCTIVITY TRAINING

16. PRODUCTIVITY IN ENTERPRISES

17. TURNAROUND SOLUTIONS (SP) Projects OBJECTIVE To prevent a decline in the country’s 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

18. SECTORS/ACHIEVEMENTS MORE THAT 96 000 JOBS IMPACTED UPON

19. PROVINCES COVERED

20. 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

21. 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

22. Second Economy Interventions

23. Second Economy Interventions

24. CORPORATE SERVICES

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

26. 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