EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION is essential if you want to have a transport company which keeps ahead of the times. Effective work teams can be managed in this manner more successfully as part of an integrated organisational development.
This is the way in which they will endeavour to actively seek out innovative technologies which will contribute to a reduction in prices, says Nandha Naidoo, chief executive of Cargo Movers.
In this way, he says, staff will help protect the environment, improve the quality of service and also improve the sustainability of the company to serve
customers in the long term.
In line with international trends, my company recognises the importance of sound environmental management and focuses on this during the planning period in any undertaking, he says.
Naidoo was an employee for 15 years in the shipping and allied industries before opening Cargo Movers in 1989, initially as a transport broker with a single truck and a staff of two in a small office down Durban's Sydney Road.
In less than two years it had blossomed to owning 18 vehicles, employed 30 staff and had opened an office in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg.
With a depot at Maydon Wharf, the company now occupies larger offices in Durban and operates a 24-hour work schedule, with Sunny Naidu now filling the role of chief whip in the operations division, and who single-handedly co-ordinates the transport activities.
You have to enjoy full employee participation in everything you do to achieve the best results, says Naidoo. It is this company's belief that each and every employee should have the opportunity to meaningfully influence decisions that affect him or her, either directly or through representation.
It is a policy that has worked, and has consequently provided full
satisfaction to our list of clients.
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