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Managers taught to motivate workers
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Aubrey Mchulu - 05-05-2003 |
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Zimbabwe-based HR Productivity Services Managing Consultant Onias Jambwa has said motivation of staff is the key to achieving organisational success both in the public and private sectors.
Jambwa, whose organisation facilitated a senior managers’ training programme locally coordinated by Integrated Management Services (IMS) in Blantyre, said in an interview that the main focus of the three-day course was to look at issues affecting performance of individuals in organisations to improve their performance.
“Once the issues affecting the performance of the people are tackled, the performance of the organisation will improve,” said Jambwa.
IMS marketing and business development director Annah Kamwaza said in a separate interview IMS developed the course content after looking at the trend in Malawi where companies were closing down due to, among other things, financial problems.
Topics discussed during the programme included establishing a performance management culture, developing job descriptions, responsibility for performance management, performance management models and change management.
One of the participants Baxton Kayuni, human resources manager at Lever Brothers Malawi Limited, said the training tackled relevant issues which, he said, will help the managers to effectively assess staff performance and achieve high productivity.
“The programme dwelt much on the people and not systems. We discussed ways of making people effective because organisations have often tended to ignore people’s contribution to their overall performance,” said Kayuni, adding an organisation’s success starts from individual contributions.
Another participant, George Banda, who works as director of personnel and administration at the Malawi Entrepreneurial Development Institute (Medi) in Dowa, said the course was beneficial to his organisation whose mandate is to train small-scale entrepreneurs to start businesses.
Banda said Medi graduates will now be drilled on how to run their businesses better and motivate their employees to achieve positive results so that their businesses do not close down.
“We want them to sustain their businesses and not close them down because that is the only way they can contribute to poverty alleviation,” he said.
The training programme, which drew 20 senior managers from both the private and public sectors, was funded by the Africa Project Development Facility (APDF) which assist African entrepreneurs and promote small and medium sized businesses.
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