PwC takes a look at the effectiveness of incentives - challenging the existing executive remuneration model by looking at the psychology of incentives.
Read more >>South Africa's productivity is at its lowest level in 40 years, according to Adcorp's Employment Index, reports
The New Age, and labour productivity growth, an important indicator for job creation, had remained negative throughout the year.
Read more >>Business Report reports that the National Planning Commission wants to create 11 million new jobs by 2030 but to achieve this, the country must create an environment that will encourage sustainable employment, increase exports and increase competitiveness.
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Business Report says the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) received 2651 applications during the first funding period in terms of the newly created Jobs Fund and has approved projects worth R320 million for grant funding.
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Hot on the heels of the Moody's ratings cut for the South African economy, Standard & Poor has revised its Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment on South Africa from Group 4 to Group 5 according to
Business Live.
Read more >>According to
Mail and Guardian Online, there is good reason to try to keep the South African textile and clothing industry going because it could create many more jobs, raise skills levels and eventually pay better than survival wages.
Read more >>John Davids, reports
allafrica.com, is a rare land reform success story in an equally uncommon partnership with white farmers among hundreds of failed government attempts to close the racial divide in commercial farming.
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