Background

Work ethics relate to an individual’s attitude and belief about work. The state of an individual’s work ethic relates to how that individual identifies herself/himself to various occupational responsibilities like goal-setting, accountability, task completion, autonomy, reliability, cooperation, communication, honesty, effort, timeliness, determination, leadership and volunteerism. A strong work ethic comprising these components is highly valued in the work place. Hence to foster these characteristics in the Public Sector, the Sectoral Committee- for Public Sector of the HRDC, came up with main strategies that would contribute to reducing the many hurdles that the public sector faces to recruit and optimise use of its human resources. The strategies formulated represent the priority initiatives to this sector in terms of capacity building to bring short-term, medium-term and long-term benefits. One of the strategies is the mounting of a training programme on Work ethics..