We believe in people and that our business cannot succeed without the support of our employees. We also believe that our values must be aligned with that of our employees in order to have people who enjoy their work and who have fun when they are at work. One of the critical success factors for us going forward is to get the balance between work life and private life right.
In order to achieve this we have decided to focus our human resources attention on six critical areas:
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We will therefore create an environment where:
- employees share our vision of growth, our values & beliefs
- employees experience the growth of the company and the benefits of being associated with a growing company
- employee personal growth can flourish
- employees can stretch themselves to become the best they can be
- employees and the company are regarded as leaders in their fields of expertise
- a dynamic business model drives our success
- innovation is integral to the employees and the organisation
- employees regards us as the employer of choice
- there is dynamic leadership through-out the organisation.
To be able to operate in this environment we need employees who:
- are experts in what they do
- are regarded as leaders in their fields or have the capacity to become leaders
- shape the environment
- wants more than a 9 to 5 job
- challenge the norm
- generate new ideas continuously
- have an entrepreneurial spirit
- are self motivated
- are willing to have a close link between outputs and rewards
- are results driven
- are dynamic
- are self starters
- are energetic
- are innovative
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The company will use one of the following four employment methods when employing a person.
- Long term employment – Permanent employees
- Value add –specialists
- Project basis – Contracted
- Trainee/Intern
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It is of utmost importance to recognise the efforts that people put in to perform their daily tasks whether it is positive (confirming that what the employee did was good) or negative (indicating that what the employee did was wrong or bad).
The following are the areas that we will recognise:
- Good and bad performance
- Doing the right things better than what was expected
- Not doing the right things
- Achievement of goals
- Targets
- Deliverables
- Growth of employees
- Achievements
- Work
- Studies
- Personal
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- Employee – individual performance
- Relations
- Birthdays
- Dedication/commitment
- Industry Leaders
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We believe in rewarding people appropriately for the work that they have done and have reward systems to cater for:
- Work done as per agreement (salary)
- Exceptional performance (incentive)
- Going the extra mile (incentive)
- Initiative (incentive)
- Innovation (incentive)
- Target selling (Sales commission)
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The development of our employees is top priority for the company.
We need to ensure that we develop the employees in the following areas:
- Functional or Specialist areas (Technical)
- Management skills:
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- Time management
- People management
- Negotiation skills
- Human Resources
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- Soft skills (life skills)
- Admin skills (Filing, business communication)
- Business skills
- Communication
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The most important area for employees is the environment that they operate in. The better the environment the happier the employee.
In order to achieve this we will have:
- Flexible working environment within 5 years
- Across disciplines (Growth of individual)
- Time
- Place of work
- Systems in place
- Maturity levels
- Safe and secure working areas
- Branded environment
- Learning environment
- Open door policy
- Tools and technology to do the work
- Innovative and out of the box thinking
- Environmental friendly
- Growing company
- Performance managed environment
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human resources strategy