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The impact of non-unionised participation platforms on employee productivity in the South African workplace

Gerhardus van Zyl
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences | Vol 9, No 1 | a31 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/jef.v9i1.31 | © 2017 Gerhardus van Zyl | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 18 December 2017 | Published: 10 March 2016

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Gerhardus van Zyl, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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Abstract

The aim of the article is to determine the impact that different participation platforms might have on employee productivity levels of the lower-skilled non-unionised employee segment of the South African workplace. A firm-based dynamic log-linear Cobb-Douglas production function model is used as it allows for the incorporation of the dynamic characteristics of the non-unionised employee segment of the South African workplace. The main conclusions of the study are that, i) the positive productivity spill-over effects of a formal committee participation platform in the lower-skilled non-unionised employee segment of the South African workplace are superior to non-committee participation platforms and, ii) a more dispersed racial participation rate, greater gender spread and a dynamic age spread for non-unionised employees are important contributing factors towards the enhancement of higher productivity levels for lower-skilled non-unionised employee participation platforms.

Keywords

Non-unionised employee segment; formal committee participation platform; non-committee participation platform; non-unionised employee dimensional productivity relationships; non-unionised employee attributes; firm-based characteristics

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