A skills audit report done by PricewaterhouseCoopers may have SABC executives and staff member’s looking for new jobs. But after the report showed that “60% of executive and senior managers do not meet the minimum required level of strategic thinking skills for executives,” they may as well start applying at McDonalds.

The findings revealed that the most scarce and critical skills at the SABC were communication skills, time management, strategic thinking, broadcast engineering, budgeting skills, creative writing and scripting skills, and business management,” Andisiwe Makinana from Mail&Guardian reports.

It leads us to question what skills SABC executives even have. Can they flip burgers? The report also found that 56% of SABC executive and senior managers were unable to demonstrate adequate levels in problem solving and decision making. Which doesn’t bode well for the SABC improving anytime soon unless a major overhaul occurs.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ audit was specifically focused on permanent employees at SABC, revealing 24 fraudulent senior and Grade 10 certificates, and that 2 252 employee personnel files had no proof of a senior certificate. A further independent skills audit on almost 1300 freelance staff will be concluded at the end of the month.

With the SABC in such an alarming state their task of transformation to digital broadcasting is the least of their worries.

To read more on the reports findings, click here.

[ Source : Mail&Guardian ]