The Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) was established through an Act of Parliament in December 1993 as a Parastatal with a tripartite board comprising of representatives from government, employers' and workers' organisations together with a few stakeholders.
The statutory mandate of the BNPC is to enhance the level of productivity awareness as an advocacy function and to enable individuals and organisations through training and consulting to be productive and competitive. The enablement process involves assisting organisations to adopt best management practices through productivity enhancing tools and techniques.
BNPC's Mandate:
- Stimulate and generate productivity consciousness in Botswana
- Promote increased productivity in all sectors of the economy
- Improve and develop standards of management in all aspects and at all levels
- Promote good/labour management relations
- Foster equitable productivity gain sharing between management, workers and consumers.
Strategic Objectives:
- To facilitate the reform of the Public Service in Botswana to where it is rated the best in Africa.
- To facilitate the improvement of the quality of Botswana's workforce to where it is ranked the best in the SADC region.
- To provide productivity statistics and information.
- To facilitate a culture of excellence within the private sector with a particular focus on SMMEs to enable targeted local businesses to achieve a regionally competitive rating on the business excellence model.
- To achieve a 400 rating on the Botswana Excellence Model by the 2009.
- To reduce BNPC financial dependence on government grant funding.
VISION
To be the lead catalyst in the transformation of Botswana into a Prosperous, Productive and Innovative nation.
SLOGAN
Together, we transform Botswana
MISSION
To empower stakeholders in the use of productivity and quality best practices for personal and collective success.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES | VALUES
(acted out as habits) | BEHAVIOURS |
Commit
(to theMission) | Selflessness
Integrity
Results focus | Always prepared to be of service;
Customer Focused delivery, done with passion. |
Be It!
(on theMission) | Assertiveness
Pro activity
Creativity | Walking the talk with empathy and insight;
Effective, efficient and fair actions as interdependent, accountable agents. |
Coach It!
(on theMission) | Learning orientation
Humility | Feedback given and received;
Choices made to improve personal effectiveness. |
QUALITY POLICY STATEMENT
Quality is the responsibility of every BNPC employee.
All BNPC employees, management and staff alike, are committed to providing transformation services through continuous improvement of BNPC’s Quality Management System.
This commitment is embedded throughout BNPC’s mission journey, embracing core values and guiding principles to deliver its vision as well as the following objective for quality:
• To operate quality management systems that meet or exceed the requirements of ISO 9001:2000;
BNPC PROGRAMMES
Productivity and Quality: This is a frontline advocacy and mobilisation arm of the BNPC that is responsible for inculcating productive behaviour at all levels of Botswana society by promoting public awareness, knowledge and utilisation of productivity and quality tools and concepts. For further details about the programme please click here for the annual report.
Enterprise Support: This programme aims at facilitating the empowerment of Botswana manufacturing and services enterprises to achieve sustainable world class performance through the application of productivity and quality best practices. For further details about the programme please click here for the annual report.
Public Service: This programme aims to facilitate the creation of a culture of high performance through programmes, which are aimed at improving service quality and performance in the Public Service. For further details about the programme please click here for the annual report.
Information & Research Services: The Programme's core purpose is to avail productivity and quality information to enable BNPC stakeholders to manage by fact in the delivery of individual and national prosperity. For further details about the programme please click here for the annual report.
