Skills Development in the Gauteng

As part of its broad strategy to tackle rising unemployment, poverty and tofacilitate black economic empowerment, the South African governmentresolved to promote skills development in the workplace. To this end, thenational skills development strategy was introduced. This policy came at atime when organisations were battling to increase productivity in theworkplace, due to skills shortage. This hampered economic growth andsocial development in South Africa. The purpose of this research was toexamine the implementation of skills programmes for an empowermentcompany in the Gauteng construction industry. The study used qualitativeresearch methodology. It was established that management showedoptimism regarding the implementation of skills plans, whilst workers feltthat practical training and financial incentives lacked. It was concluded thatskills development is impeded by poor planning and implementationprocesses. As a result, it was recommended that these be revised andaligned to improve service delivery