THE price hikes we have witnessed in the last few months call for a deeper analysis of how businesses in this country operate. Profiteering is still rife in the Zimbabwean economy. Some of the price adjustments are justifiable while the majority are not. (more…)

WHAT exactly do we mean when we say a person is competent? The dictionary defines competent as “having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully”. (more…)

THE year 2019 is here and my predictions are that there will be a lot of things happening on the human resources front. Given that most human resources issues are linked to business performance, let's first look at the business side of 2019. (more…)

IT IS very likely that most organisations are overstaffed in various roles for various reasons. Some could not react quickly when we went into the multicurrency regime. In some cases, regulatory and company procedures made it difficult to make changes in the head count in line with the…

  PAY practices have the biggest impact on the profitability and sustainability of any business. For this reason alone companies cannot afford to just copy what others are doing without linking the changes to their own business circumstances. (more…)

I HEAR a lot of people when giving career advice even to high school students say: “follow your dreams". This works in a few careers but does not work in many others. Here is why. (more…)

GOAL alignment in organisations is a precondition for a successful performance measurement system. Individual goals need to be aligned with higher goals in the organisation both vertically and horizontally. Lack of goal alignment is one of the reasons why performance management systems do not produce the desired positive…

THE question why people engage in unethical behaviour is a difficult one for most people to answer. What drives people to act unethically? This is the question that I will try to answer in this article. (more…)

DESPITE several declarations by senior executives that human resources is their greatest asset, the situation on the ground in most organisations does not portray this scenario. (more…)