Workplace Challenge Programme
The Workplace Challenge Programme is a focused supply side intervention of the dti, managed by Productivity South Africa, aiming to actively encourage and support negotiated workplace change towards enhancing productivity and world-class competitiveness, best operating practices, continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, while resulting in job creation.
The key objectives of the Workplace Challenge Programme include:
- Implementing leadership practices in participating enterprises that promote teamwork, participation, continuous learning and flexibility.
- Focusing on simultaneous improvement of quality, speed / delivery, cost and morale in participating enterprises.
- Establishing close links with customers and suppliers of participating enterprises.
- Driving both linear (kaizen) and non-linear (kaikaku) improvement initiatives within the participating enterprises.
- Eliminating all forms of waste and making value flow within participating enterprises.
The Workplace Challenge Programme is geared towards promoting four aspects essential for success:
- Leadership Practices:
The goal is to improve teamwork and participation flexibility by involving those on the shop floor in the improvement of company performance. - Quality, speed, cost and morale.
- Continuous learning to facilitate growth.
- Inspiration by involving employees within smaller businesses in a cluster with larger companies.
Benefits of cluster membership
- Participating enterprises are assisted to focus on business objectives and alignment throughout the organisation.
- Enterprises are coached towards improved competitiveness and service delivery through continuous improvement of quality (improving customer satisfaction), speed (ensuring on-time delivery), cost-effectiveness (reducing reject rate / waste) and morale (reducing absenteeism).
- Enterprises often see immediate, results in the workplace, in the form of a visually clean and well-organised workplace.
- Leaders and teams are equipped with the tools and skills to implement world-best practices. Companies are coached in implementing world-class manufacturing principles.
- Usually one of the results is enhanced teamwork and spontaneous participation, continuous learning and useful product or process innovations from the shop floor.
- Attendance of Milestone Workshops where participants can benefit from mutual sharing in the lessons learned by each.
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