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The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23632 The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis Sutherland, Margie upetd@up.ac.za Hawarden, Verity UCTD Economic aspects Aids Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The social, demographic and economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic are disturbing for South Africa, and the implications for business are great. The objective of this research was to establish the impact of HIV/AIDS on small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry as the majority of employees within this industry are semi- and unskilled and it is this level of employee who has been most severely affected by the epidemic. In addition, the research attempts to analyse how companies have responded to the epidemic and lastly, to determine what has facilitated and hindered their response.The research was conducted using structured, face to face interviews with twenty small to medium organisations in central Gauteng employing from 20 to 300 people. The questionnaire addressed the impact of HIV/AIDS on the organisation and the subsequent response to the epidemic.The findings reveal that SME manufacturing organisations are experiencing the impact of HIV/AIDS, yet there is a disconnect between impact and response. The majority of companies are not proactively taking action to manage the consequences of the epidemic. Factors contributing towards the limited response are: negative implications of stigma, lack of information, perceived cost of response, time required to respond and uncertainty about the role of government. It appears that the long-term economic consequences of the epidemic have not been considered by companies when determining the nature and extent of their response. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:43:05Z 2010-06-23 2013-09-06T15:43:05Z 2007-04-08 2010-06-23 2010-03-30 Dissertation Hawarden, V 2006, The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDS crisis, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23632 > G10/236/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23632 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-144304/ © 2006 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Economic aspects Aids The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis |
| title | The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis |
| title_full | The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis |
| title_fullStr | The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis |
| title_short | The response of SME manufacturers to the HIV/AIDs crisis |
| title_sort | response of sme manufacturers to the hiv aids crisis |
| topic | UCTD Economic aspects Aids |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23632 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-144304/ |