Remuneration Challenge:An obstacle to conducive employment relationsand a trigger for poor service delivery in a Local authority in Zimbabwe
Journal Title: International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 11
Abstract
Zimbabwe‟s major local authorities are failing to remunerate their workers as per agreed contracts of employment. This has often seen a lot of work stoppages by council workers as they embark on industrial action or threaten to dos so as a way of forcing management to accede to their demands of being paid salary arrears albeit deteriorating service delivery. The study was a qualitative survey and participants were drawn from local authorities‟ such as officers, senior administrators, councillors,workers‟ union members as well as labour experts and officers drawn from the Ministries of Public Service, Labour and Social welfare and that of Local government, Rural development and National housing. The study established that the weaning of local authority from government financial support had brought untold suffering to the council workers whose welfare had worsened as well as the rate payers who were subjected to poor service delivery. Workers were disgruntled with the huge salaries and perks that management awarded themselves yet they were owed several months‟ salary arrears. A lot of corrupt and fraudulent activities coupled with rate payers, some companies and government departments defaulting payment of rates, were contributing to serious financial deficits that affected councils operations including the remuneration of workers. The economic situation punctuated by liquidity crisis was also adversely affecting the councils‟ cash inflows. The study recommended that there was need for; a culture paradigm shift on how council should conduct its affairs, conducting audits to expose shoddy dealings and irregularities as well as incorporating residents into task forces that should address issues of rates defaulting in order to boost revenues.
Authors and Affiliations
Dominic Uzhenyu
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP18934
- DOI -
- Views 399
- Downloads 16
A study on Effectiveness of Training and Development in Cement Industry
Training effectiveness in cement industry is a critical aspect of the development of knowledge of workforce. The objective of this study is to examine effectiveness of Training. To survive in the globalised era, organi...
An Exploratory Study on Leadership Blind Spots; A Leadership Perspective
Leadership Blind Spots means, not or unable to see beyond his/her vision by a leader. Those who aspire to become an entrepreneur, a professional in any field, a manager or a leader who has a vision will have to take th...
slugVIDEO SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTION
Many algorithms have been proposed for detecting video shot boundaries and classifying shot and shot transition types. Here we are using two different methods for comparison, using GIST1, Color Histogram. Color histogr...
slugAccurate Face Recognition Using PCA and LDA
Face recognition from images is a sub-area of the general object recognition problem. It is of particular interest in a wide variety of applications. Here, the face recognition is based on the new proposed modified PCA...
slugIMPLEMENTATION OF LEAN METHODOLOGY IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
While the concepts of lean production are frequently applied in service organizations there is little work that rigorously has examined implementing lean production in contexts other than manufacturing as well as lean...