- Title
- Production and safety, health, environment and quality performance: investigating the corporate sustainability of Ngqura container terminal
- Creator
- Methola, Moleboheng
- Subject
- Industrial safety -- South Africa -- Management
- Subject
- Total quality management in human services Work environment Harbors -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/31984
- Identifier
- vital:31906
- Description
- Container terminals around the country play an important role in the economy. The Ngqura Container Terminal situated in the Eastern Cape, was strategically built as a terminal of choice to boost the economy of the Eastern Cape. Since starting operations in 2009, the Terminal has seen a steady improvement in volumes’ growth but unstable operational performance. The Port of Ngqura continues to seek options in fulfilling the purpose of its development. Zero incidences and best production performance are of strategic importance. Most researchers have identified a sustainability model as an effective tool of business success. Corporate sustainability can be viewed as evolving corporate management. It is an alternative traditional growth and profit maximization model, while it recognizes that corporate growth and profitability are important. Research indicates that Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) cover issues relating to the social, mental and physical wellbeing of workers and these are recognized as core to corporate sustainability. Researchers also stipulate that SHEQ do affect production performance. Supporting SHEQ, corporate sustainability can link SHEQ Management with human resources, environment, profitability and productivity. Working in safe and healthy conditions enhances the employee’s performance, increases their motivation and effectiveness, raises business productivity and consequently improves the quality of the product. The aim of the study was to establish whether there was a relationship between SHEQ performance, production performance and corporate sustainability at the Ngqura Container Terminal. The findings of the study from the literature review and the empirical study were used to evaluate whether SHEQ performance and production performance affected each other and the impact they had on corporate sustainability at the Ngqura Container Terminal. The literature review suggested that SHEQ performance and production performance do affect each other.
- Format
- xii, 118 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economics Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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