An Investigation into productivity of manufacturing SMEs in the Gauteng Region

Abstract

Government, labour and business have mandated Productivity SA, as an institution, to enable manufacturing industries to improve in their productivity and in turn to grow their country's economy, but still low productivity is currently a serious epidemic facing manufacturing industries amongst the SMEs in South Africa, where SMEs are operating below minimum efficiency scale leading to lower productivity levels. Labour productivity and capital productivity are currently becoming an economic problem and sector problem whereby in terms of labour productivity. What needs to be addressed is that how efficiency influences the productivity of the manufacturing SMEs in the Gauteng Region? The primary objective is to investigate the productivity of in the manufacturing SMEs and to develop some guidelines on how efficiency can improve the productivity of manufacturing SMEs in the Gauteng Region.