Workplace discrimination is defined as a work environment that exhibits bias or discriminatory behaviour in the treatment of the employees based on a number of varying factors, such as marital status, gender, pregnancy, sexual preference, race, colour, nationality, disability, belief, or age. Such discrimination occurs at all stages and levels within an organisation, from employment…
Category: Skills Development
The benefits of eLearning in the workplace
The workplace skills gap is the gap between what employers want and what job seekers have to offer. It has a negative impact on the company’s operational performance and its overall growth, but employers do not always have enough resources to provide sufficient opportunities for learning to equip them with the skills and the knowledge…
Do you have a Soft Skills gap?
When employers consider training solutions for their employees, they often only focus on the technical competence and abilities pertaining to a specific set of skills or tasks. For example, employers will want their welders to improve their welding skills, or they will want to train their engineers to improve their engineering skills. These are referred…
How to minimize Skills Development Expenditure
The Amended Construction Sector Code was published on 1 December 2017. This code has implications for entities that previously, under the Codes of Good Practice, didn’t need to make any contributions to obtain a specific level. This specifically refers to Qualifying Small Enterprises (QSEs) that qualify for automatic level 1 or 2 sworn affidavits in…
Are Mentoring Programmes worth it?
Doing business today requires having low-cost, yet high-quality, solutions. Starting a mentoring program in your business allows you to capitalize on your greatest resource, your employees. Mentoring programs are a cost-efficient way to get employees engaged and empowered. What are the benefits to the mentor? Being involved in mentoring provides some tangible benefits that can reward mentors…
Skills Development and BEE – a perfect combo
With Skills Development as a priority element on the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Scorecard, you now have the opportunity to earn 30 vital points. This means you must emphasise the Skills Development element and at least meet the 40% sub-minimum required as a Priority Element. Should you fail in doing so, you’ll be discounted…
The need for cultural sensitivity training in the workplace
As recently highlighted in the media, the South African public are still very sensitive and highly reactionary when it comes to advertising campaigns that can be interpreted as racially or culturally insensitive. As a result of this miscommunication and misinterpretation, there has been a loss of both time, money and, perhaps most importantly, it has…