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Local workers’ morale ranks lowest in global survey

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Low morale: Experts have noted that employees generally burnout around the middle of the year and particularly in colder months. Low remuneration and workplace strife add to the problem PIC: LINKEDIN

An authoritative report comparing the competitiveness of 64 high and middle-income countries, has ranked local workers last in terms of motivation. The same report, however, ranks Botswana sixth in terms of compensation. Is the report broken or what gives, asks Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

In the absence of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) well-known Global Competitiveness Report, a survey by the Swiss-based Institute of Management Development (IMD), has become the world’s go-to review on comparative competitiveness.

Botswana signed up for the IMD’s Competitiveness Yearbook three years ago, allowing the Swiss researchers to gauge the country’s ranking in a list limited to high and middle-income economies. The only other country profiled by the Yearbook in Africa is South Africa.

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Local workers’ morale ranks lowest in global survey

An authoritative report comparing the competitiveness of 64 high and middle-income countries, has ranked local workers last in terms of motivation. The same report, however, ranks Botswana sixth in terms of compensation. Is the report broken or what gives, asks Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

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