by SAVIOUS KWINIKA
Africa Editor
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) - SYSTEMS Applications Products (SAP), the global market leader in enterprise application software, says its Sabbatical programme had received special recognition as one of the leading employee engagement strategies.
The project has earned the company a place in the Triple Pundit’s Top 10 Employee Engagement Strategies.
SAP Africa CEO, Pfungwa Serima, said the SAP’s Social Sabbatical programme was aimed at addressing this challenge while also creating a foundation for employee learning and innovation with a focus on team volunteering, mentorship and coaching.
Serima said an international team of 30 SAP high potentials recently travelled to South African communities in Mabopane, Tembisa near Johannesburg and in Swaziland, bringing their business and IT expertise to local projects, such as the development of an efficient supply chain strategy to strengthen the local artisan sector.
The programme, said Serima, also gave SAP employees a unique opportunity to further develop leadership skills, business acumen and connect with leaders and organisations from all over the world.
“An engaged workforce is critical to ensuring that SAP achieves its ambitious African goals.
"Our objective is to increase our employee engagement index to 82 percent in 2013 (up from 79 percent in 2012). This is critical to foster a workforce culture based upon innovation and career development.
“Effective employee engagement is directly linked to our ability to innovate, deliver customer value, positively impact lives and ultimately become the engine for economic growth in Africa to help solve African problems," Serima said
According to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey, sponsored by SAP, the world needs to create more than 500 million new jobs by 2020 to provide career opportunities for the unemployed as well as for young people who will be joining the workforce.
The bulk of this challenge falls on countries in the developing world, including South Africa, Brazil and India.
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by SAVIOUS KWINIKA
Africa Editor
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) - SYSTEMS Applications Products (SAP), the global market leader in enterprise application software, says its Sabbatical programme had received special recognition as one of the leading employee engagement strategies.
The project has earned the company a place in the Triple Pundit’s Top 10 Employee Engagement Strategies.
SAP Africa CEO, Pfungwa Serima, said the SAP’s Social Sabbatical programme was aimed at addressing this challenge while also creating a foundation for employee learning and innovation with a focus on team volunteering, mentorship and coaching.
Serima said an international team of 30 SAP high potentials recently travelled to South African communities in Mabopane, Tembisa near Johannesburg and in Swaziland, bringing their business and IT expertise to local projects, such as the development of an efficient supply chain strategy to strengthen the local artisan sector.
The programme, said Serima, also gave SAP employees a unique opportunity to further develop leadership skills, business acumen and connect with leaders and organisations from all over the world.
“An engaged workforce is critical to ensuring that SAP achieves its ambitious African goals.
"Our objective is to increase our employee engagement index to 82 percent in 2013 (up from 79 percent in 2012). This is critical to foster a workforce culture based upon innovation and career development.
“Effective employee engagement is directly linked to our ability to innovate, deliver customer value, positively impact lives and ultimately become the engine for economic growth in Africa to help solve African problems," Serima said
According to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey, sponsored by SAP, the world needs to create more than 500 million new jobs by 2020 to provide career opportunities for the unemployed as well as for young people who will be joining the workforce.
The bulk of this challenge falls on countries in the developing world, including South Africa, Brazil and India.
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