Factors Contributing to the Loss of
Date
2011-04-15
Authors
Holl, Ivan
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Abstract
South Africa has been experiencing a shortage of qualified resources since the
early nineties, particularly in the skilled and professional sector. This study
explores the loss of engineers from the profession within the context of South
Africa. It probes the contributing factors that influence engineers to emigrate to
other countries. It also explores career migration as another loss to the
profession as many of the registered engineers leave the engineering
profession for other professions.
A discriminant analysis function was developed to distinguish among three
mutually exclusive groups: those who are content with their current situation,
those who consider emigration or career change and those that have left the
country or changed careers. The data for this analysis was gathered through a
survey that was sent to all registered professional engineers at the Engineering
Council of South Africa.
The key findings of this research were that the classification of engineers in the
group that is content with their current situation can be predicted with
confidence, those who consider with less and those that have left, a mere
guess. The contributing factors for emigration and career migration have been
substantiated through this research.
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MBA - WBS
Keywords
Retention of employees, Engineering profession