Those targeted were employees at Debswana at Head Office and its sorting arm Botswana Diamond Valuing Company which is also located in Gaborone, Orapa, Letlhakane and Damtshaa Mines in the Boteti area and Jwaneng Mine in the south. More than 300 printed questionnaires (two hundred) questionnaires were sent out and at the time of the deadline, only 37 had been filled. Another 100 (one hundred questionnaires) were then sent out. In addition to the printed questionnaires, some were sent by email to potential respondents. After this effort to get a credible number of respondents, the tally of respondents increased to 72 .
Summary of Findings
More details of the respondents follow and their demographic data was established in the last section of the questionnaire (Section E). There were 54.3% male respondents compared to 45.7% females. In terms of age, most of the respondents (50%) were between 31-40 years, 4.3% were between 18-25years, 22.2% were between 26-30 years, 21.4% were between 41-50 years and 1.4% were between 51-60 years. In terms of salary band, 8.3% were in the B Band, 53.3% in the C Band, 30% in the D Band and 8.3% in the E Band. With regard to the number of year spent working for Debswana, 2.9% had been with the company for less than 1 year, 38.6% had spent between 1 and 5 years, 24.3% (6-10 years), 17.1% (11-15 years), 8.6% (16-20 years) and another 8.6% had worked for Debswana for over 20 years. The spread of education among respondents was noted as follows: 1.4% were educated up to Junior Certificate level, 14.5% had a high school certificate, 33.3% possessed an undergraduate degree, 34.8% had graduate degrees while 15.9% had other forms of qualifications such as a professional accounting education. It was also found necessary to determine the income brackets of the respondents with 4.5% of respondents earning between P2001-P5000.00, 31.8% (P5001.00-P8000.00), 25.8% (P8001.00-P12000.00), 9.1% (P12001.00-P15000.00) while 28.8% earned over P15000.00.
