Clarification: Botswana labour force work ethic rating
| Monday July 28, 2014 12:29
To this end, the information might have misled the public into thinking that there has been a study based on the said variables which concluded that the performance of the country’s labour force was determined by the said characteristics.
Therefore, the BNPC would like to clarify the issues pertaining to the rating of work ethic of Botswana’s labour force with specific reference to the Botswana Quality Workforce (BQW) Study of 2010. The variables as used in the study referred to the profiles of the respondents who were involved in rating the work ethic of the country’s labour force.
Thus the respondents could be of a certain gender, age, educational level, religious affiliation and citizenship. Therefore, the variables as used in the study refer to the catergorisation of the respondents who rated the national labour force and not the performance of the Employees themselves being rated on the basis of the said variables. Hence:
l Analysis by gender suggests that the females rate the work ethic of the labour force to be relatively higher ( mean rank 3.4) as compared to the males (mean rank 3.2);
l The rating by age suggests that the older respondents (age 60 and above) rate the work ethic of the labour force to be very high ( mean rank 3.8) while younger respondents rated it poorly at (mean rank 2.8);
l The decomposition of the respondents by education level suggests that employees with tertiary level of education ranked the work ethic of the labour force to be high (mean rank 3.6) as compared to respondents on other educational categories;
l The categorisation by religious affiliation suggests that Muslims rate the work ethic of the labour force to be relatively higher (mean rank 3.4) as compared to other religious groups. For example Christians and people from other religious affiliations rated it (mean rank 3.3);
l The categorisation by citizenship provide very interesting results where Batswana rated the work ethic of the labour force to be very low ( mean rank 3.3) as compared to the rating by foreigners (Zimbabwean 3.4; other Nationalities 3.4).
In conclusion, we do hope that this article serves the objective of clarifying the findings of the BQW study and the profiles of the respondents.
Stryker Motlaloso
BNPC