Businesses and their role in sustainable job creation.

1. Businesses and
their role in
sustainable job
creation.

2. • A sustainable business is one which will operate
successfully in the economy for a long time.
• For a business to last it needs to offer consumers goods
or services that they need, at a competitive price and
quality.
• Sustainable job creation
• (offer long-term, stable job opportunities to employment-
seekers.

3. Brett Dawson- The group
CEO of Dimension Data
• ‘of all the socio-economic challenges facing South
Africa, unemployment must be the greatest.”
• ‘It represents not only wasted potential and
productivity, but is depriving us of the future it
deserves. Of course, employment means much more
than earning an income:

4. Brett Dawson- The group
CEO of Dimension Data
• It promotes self-worth, independence and
innovation. More jobs would have an invaluable
effect on the social fabric of this country, reducing
poverty, crime and violence.’
• Reduce poverty, crime and violence.

5. sustainable job creation.
• To create more sustainable jobs
• We need sustainable businesses.
• More competitive
• Internationally competitive

6. Taking advantage of the moves
in economic activity.
• Many international businesses send their to operations
to Asian countries where doing business is cheap and
easy.
• There are about 85 million manufacturing jobs in China!
• China has recently increased it’s minimum wage…
• What could this mean for us???

7. Difficulties in South
Africa 
• An inefficient government bureaucracy.
• An inadequately educated labour force.
• Labour regulations that place strong restrictions on a
business’s ability to be profitable.
• We are ranked 95th in the world for labour market efficiency.
• Labour reforms are needed! (Changes to labour policy)

9. Businesses and their role in the sustainable
use of natural resources.
• Solar and wind energy in new buildings.
• Low energy globes in old buildings.
• Recycle water
• Use timber from planted forests for furniture and as a
building material in roofs, floors, props, window and door
frames.

10. Environmental issues
• Limited fossil fuel resources (oil, coal)
• Air pollution
• Global warming
• Limited clean water for consumption.
• Soil erosion
• Loss of equatorial forests that supply oxygen and regulate
rainfall patterns.