Human resource management
was Professional Counselling, which constitutes
57.1% of total engagement.
REWARD AND RECOGNITION
Figure 1: Director HR addressing staff on International
Sports Day
A synopsis of employee wellness programme
executed during the year under review are
outlined below. The employee wellness activities
are intended to promote healthy, dedicated,
responsive and productive employees who add
value to SALGA’s mandate.
An Employee Wellness day, focusing on
environmental issues, hygiene, nutrition, and
mind games, Financial Wellness Workshop,
Goal Setting and Staying motivated and health
screening were held.
Further, Men and Women dialogue, Work-
life balance awareness session, and Cancer
awareness sessions were held.
Cases handled through the EWP during the year
include; family legal issues, couple relationship,
debt management advice & planning; trauma
and family related counselling and bereavement
support were managed for the period under
review.
The employee recognition awards is SALGA’s
way of recognising excellence in employees.
Employees who perform well and also go the extra
mile while executing the SALGA mandate, are
nominated by their fellow staff members in order
to become eligible for an award. Recognition is an
important component in the HR value chain. A
formal recognition programme such as SALGA’s
Employee Recognition Awards (ERA) serves as
a catalyst to encourage even more outstanding
work amongst employees. SALGA furthermore
promotes the concept of working collaboratively
in a team as well as forming multi-disciplinary
teams to achieve a certain strategic objective. A
reward category recognising and rewarding the
best team was therefore included in the awards
categories.
Traditionally the ERA awards, being the
prestigious event focusing on excellence within
SALGA, have been held annually in December
and in close proximity of the SALGA National
Office. The SALGA Employee Recognition Awards
(ERA) conceptualized and launched in 2011 was
initiated with the following key objectives:
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Figure 2: Employee
Internatinal Sports Day
Wellness
Day
To recognize and promote excellence in
service delivery.
To honour dedicated, creative and
effective individuals, teams, business
units.
To recognize committed employees
or teams who are driving successful
projects and reward their outstanding
contributions.
To recognize positive behaviours that
support individual or team goals and
objectives.
To encourage a culture of recognition
of “going the extra mile” amongst
employees.
recognises
This utilisation rate for the EWP is 22.50%,
the utilisation rate at SALGA is above the
Government Sector benchmark (9.16%) for
the review period. During the period under
review the most commonly utilised service
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SALGA ANNUAL REPORT
2016/17