Exogenous Factors that Seem to Undermine Miners’ Performance at a South African Platinum Mine
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33423/jbd.v18i4.246Keywords:
Business Diversity, Business Management, Economic, Human ResourcesAbstract
The mining sector is viewed as the economic heartbeat of the Republic of South Africa. Mining houses acknowledge that human development is a powerful management instrument employed to encourage improvement in workers’ prowess, yet they are unaware of the significant implications that exogenous variables – inadequacy of housing could have on employees’ performance. This current paper was quantitative. Research instrument – A structured research questionnaire. The study surveyed 292 permanent underground miners’ from 2 idiosyncratic reefs. Using SPSS version 24.0, the empirical findings suggested that miners’ perceptions of exogenous factors were satisfactory even though their average production output was unsatisfactory.