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OUR SOCIAL IMPACT CONTINUED
Profile of employees with disabilities as at 30 June 2017
Male
Female
Total
Occupational levels
A
C
I
W A
C
I
W
Top management
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Senior management
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
Professionally qualified and
experienced specialists and mid-
management
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
4
8
Skilled technical and academically
qualified workers, junior management,
supervisors, foremen, and
superintendents
12
8
1
1
12
13
4
15
66
Semi-skilled and discretionary
decision-making
3
0
1
0
3
0
1
2
10
Unskilled and defined
decision-making
0
0
0
0
8
2
0
0
10
Grand total
15
9
3
2
23
15
6
22
95*
* The total figure reflected is for SA operations only (excluding outside SA subsidiaries).
TALENT AND LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT
AfroCentric employs a number of internal facilitators who
provide functional and behavioural courses that equip new and
existing employees to perform their jobs. These courses, and
courses offered by external providers, are managed and
implemented through our Learning and Performance Academy.
In addition to short training courses, our Academy runs several
curricula that take new employees through several weeks of
training to ensure they are fit to perform their jobs once they “hit
the ground”.
The Academy also offers several accredited courses, allowing
employees to earn credits towards formal qualifications. During
the 2016/17 financial year, another round of our NQF 4 and
NQF 5 manager qualifications were rolled out by the Academy.
These 12-month qualifications involve classroom sessions,
workplace exercises, as well as submission of Portfolios of
Evidence. The qualifications are intensive learning experiences;
however, the skill and knowledge gained by our employees is
invaluable.
ONLINE LEARNING
Our Learning and Performance Academy offers online training
through our Online Academy. Company policies, legislative
courses, behavioural skill courses as well as functional training
courses are available to employees on an ongoing basis at any
time and in any place. We continue developing our online
offering, providing a wide selection of courses to our employees
to support them in their current roles and future aspirations.
Study Assistance Programme
Formal studies can be financially taxing. This often results in
employees not being able to pursue their study aspirations. We
offer a Study Assistance Programme, which sponsors selected
employees for their approved studies. The Study Assistance
Programme is available to the relevant employees according to
the business strategy and priorities. The Group funded
10 employees’ studies over the financial year, and will continue
to do so until completion of their qualification.
Over and above this, the Learning and Performance Academy
has partnered with Inseta to fund the studies of additional
employees. In total, 25 employees received funding for their
studies via Inseta over the financial year.
Our contribution towards eradicating the
skills shortage
As part of the AfroCentric Group’s contribution towards reducing
the skills shortage in the both the private and public health sector,
we spent almost a million Rand towards the bursaries of four
students studying to become medical doctors.