This essay will go about critically discussing three of South Africa’s skills-upliftment initiatives in order to raise management’s awareness on the importance of uplifting employees’ skills. Firstly we will look at three initiatives in detail, then we will move on to looking at the most important skills-upliftment reasons within the South African organizational context by focusing on the advantages and benefits that come from the initiative as well as the implications of not having them .
Skills-upliftment is defined by Coetzee, as the enhancement of employees’ applied competencies in their jobs by improving their knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes through formal education, skills training and continuous development (Coetzee, 2013). This will help them maintain a sustainable career path and will also allow their children to learn from the parents on how to a run small business, be employed and have their own responsibility (Khayelitsha cookies company, 2010). Khayelitsha Cookies aims to focus on women in Khayelitsha and wants to build the community from within, strengthening not only business skills but also social upliftment by increasing self worth of women. The women have a 30% share of the business through a trust fund, so when there is a profit in the business the shares pay out which, teaches the women that if they work hard it will pay (Khayelitsha cookies company, 2010). Learn to Earn is a not profit organization that provide people in Khayelitsha with various skills development programmes like computer skills, baking classes, sewing, and administrative work skills, the NPO also provide life skills such as awareness, family relationships and conflict resolution skills (Khayelitsha cookies company, 2010). Many of the women who work at Khayelitsha Cookies have gone through training via Learn to Earn to broaden their skill sets. The initiative empowers not only women, but also the Khayelitsha community as a whole and wants to change their lives for the better. The advantage of this initiative is that is focuses on uplifting the social and employment sectors of women in one area, this being Khayalitsha, this ensures that the level of unemployment, crime and poverty decreases. Women fall into a minority group, and make up a large proportion of South Africa’s unemployed population, this paired with Khayelitsha being one of the biggest informal townships in Cape Town means that the skills development increases peoples standards of living from within. The implications of not having this
this subject, I have derived quite a simple yet elegant solution to our present dilemma. We need only relocate those who burden our society to a secure location where, whether they wish to or not, they will be instilled with the values, morals, and skills required to perform the most rudimentary of tasks. Since those who know nothing can understand nothing, no time will be wasted on the education of the truly inept who will under no circumstances amount to anything ever. These savages, after undergoing…
Biography - An Account of his life (1879-1981) Reverend Henry Ward was born in Golden Grove, St. Ann. He received his early education at Clapham Elementary School, and then moved on to St. George’s Elementary in guys Hill. There he passed the Pupil Teachers’ Examination with distinction and gained an exhibitioner’s scholarship to the Micro Teachers’ College. He distinguished himself at Mico, and his personal conduct was exemplary throughout his college career. In 1900, he graduated from Mico as…
....12 Bibliography………………………………………………….……………….......13 Reflective Review……………………………………………………………..….14 Introduction With the rise of Globalization, import and export of products and services have also grown steadily. The market also faced major upliftment, as many reputed organizations are aiming to establish their brands to other prospective parts of the world. However marketing a product to a new land involves various cross-cultural marketing factors and moreover it is not an easy process to establish…
------------------------------------------------- Feminism in India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Part of a series on | Feminism | Women and femininity[show] | History[show] | Variants[show] | Concepts[show] | Theory[show] | By country[show] | Lists and indexes[show] | Feminism portal | * v * t * e | Feminism in India is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities…
poverty line stated by the government of Nepal. A person earning less than the average national income. The rural areas where women engaged in agriculture have either part time job or no job. Women of dalit category or Muslim community, having skill and willingness to work but no source of…
Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 DECLARATION OF ETHICS 4 Abstract 5 CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 6 1.0 INTRODUCTION 6 1.1Background 7 1.2 Statement of the problem 11 1.3 Purpose of the study 11 1.4 Research questions 11 1.5 Definition of key terms 12 1.6 Acronyms: 12 1.7 Significance of the study 13 1.8 Limitations 14 1.9 Delimitations 14 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 15 2.0 INTRODUCTION 15 2.1 The origin of pastoral care 15 2.2 What is pastoral…