Poor work ethic still haunts Botswana - report

This was revealed at the launch of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 in Gaborone last week. According to the findings of a survey presented by Letsogile Batsetswe, a research consultant with Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC), poor work ethics tops the list of 15 factors identified as the most problematic for doing business in Botswana.

Respondents in the study were asked to select five most problematic factors from a list of 15, which included corruption, crime and theft, government instability/coups and tax regulations.  Poor work ethics came out at the top of the list after being identified by 17.4 percent of the respondents. Inadequately educated workforce and inefficient government bureaucracy followed at 13.0 percent and 12.9 percent respectively.