BNPC strives to improve work ethics
Keikantse Lesemela | Thursday September 11, 2014 10:54
Briefing the media yesterday, BNPC executive director, Tebogo Kesupile said currently they have more than 280 facilitators who will be training the public sector on work ethics.
“Our attitude to work as a nation is not good, so we really need to work hard to change this attitude because it affects the country’s economy,” she said.
The programme is based on three phases, the awareness, the training and the targeted interventions. “The work ethic is poor across all sectors, but we have started with the public sector and later we will involve the private sector,” said Kesupile. She said work ethic is a culture that is made up of attitudes.
“It relates to the ways Batswana view the work, so we need to change this culture as Batswana, we believe this programme will bring change to the country,” she said.
In the World Global Competitiveness Index 2014/2015, Botswana retained its position as 74th out of 144 countries. Last year it got the same position out of 148 countries; thus increasing this year’s performance 4.2.
BNPC executive director, Baeti Molake said even though the rank remained stagnant there is an improvement on quality. “We have recorded improvement in quality even though we are still underperforming in other pillars. This is a significant improvement we have to celebrate,” said Molake. He said Botswana is in transition towards the second stage of development, which consists of efficiency enhancers like higher education and training, goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness and market size.
However, the study shows that Botswana has been declining in the Global Competitiveness Index. It shows that in 2008, Botswana was at number 56 out of 133 countries, scoring 4.2. But in 2009, Botswana ranked at number 66 out of 136 countries and scored 5.6. For 2010, Botswana is ranked at number 76 out of 139 countries and has scored 4.1.
In 2012 it was ranked 79 and scored 4.1 out of 144 countries.