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CTI exemplary performance worth emulating
2006-05-12 11:40:48
By Editor
On Tuesday this week, President Jakaya Kikwete presented eleven Awards to different manufacturers who had excelled in the Manufacturer of the Year Award 2006.
There were ten contestants who won Awards in the small, medium and large-scale categories from different manufacturing sub sectors, plus the overall prize, which went to Tanzania Breweries Limited.
Organised by the Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI), the colourful event was attended by ministers, ambassadors and other members of the business community.
Without delving much into what transpired in the occasion, perhaps it would be of great significance to note that CTI move represents a new hallmark in the development of manufacturing sector in particular and the country’s economic growth in general.
It is important to note that with the exception of institutions such as those of the academia and to a lesser extent those of the farmers, there is no other field where rewarding the producers and managers for the sake of bolstering productivity in the country has been set up.
In the circumstances, there is every reason for the public to take such event as an inspiring example.
The CTI move, therefore, stands as a pioneer or prototype, not only in the field of manufacturing, but also in the terrain of goods production.
Based on this score, nobody would hesitate to give serious commendations to both the industrialists’ body for their staging of the impressive event and to the manufacturers who did well in the assessment done by their umbrella organisations.
Perhaps at this moment when we are commending the industrialists for the good work done, it is also pertinent to sound a word of advice to other producers in the country, particularly in relation to how such rewarding systems create great impacts to production.
Let it be understood that rewarding systems have far greater impacts in enhancing production and productivity than many other settings in the system of wealth production.
A good reward package to an employee, manager or entrepreneurs has far greater effects in terms of increasing production, productivity and even changing the quality of the work done. And vice versa is the case.
It is because of this that some firms, organizations or group of firms find it appropriate to give recognition to employees, managers, firms and even a set of producers so that in the final analysis they go for what is excellent in society.
Again based on the CTI pioneer case, we believe other firms in the field of production have a lot to learn here. We would, therefore, expect to see other productive sectors also joining to swim in similar if not necessarily in the same water.
We have such sectors like commerce, construction, agriculture, health, etc whose general performances have not been all that impressive before the eyes of the public.
We expect that their different umbrella organizations like the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture, Dar es Salaam Chamber of Commerce, farmers’ organisations, constructors institutions and even bodies for the professional doctors will now come up and take the path taken by CTI.
We should remember that the most important thing in all this is advanced quality production and growth, consumers’ satisfaction and enhanced economic growth.
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