October 2016

As another month comes and goes, we talk to another set of the country’s biggest and best and we hear the same thing we’ve been hearing all year – a successful business is built on people. The way management interact with employees is changing; it’s easy to communicate in the wrong way but for those who get it right, a happy and well-motivated workforce is a fuel that can propel your business to the next level – it really does pay to be a good boss.

Scribante Concrete, one of the largest privately owned ready-mix concrete suppliers in South Africa, has built a culture where employees are involved in all aspects of the business. One of SA’s leading asset managers, Argon Asset Management is investing in training so that employees are extremely well-educated. Esquire Technologies have trained people with no knowledge of the IT business, and are now working with those same people, 17 years later, on leadership succession plans. High-Tech Refractories has built a team that is 100% dedicated to customer service and is prepared to go the extra mile. One of the country’s leading estate agents, Chas Everitt, develop people to be employees for life; agents are well-respected, well-rewarded and as a result, highly motivated.

All of our feature companies create an environment in which employees are educated, empowered, understood and appreciated, and in every case, this has resulted in success.

Contact us if you have excellent working conditions and bright ideas relating to HR. We’re online @EnterpriseAfri1