Exogenous Factors that Seem to Undermine Miners’ Performance at a South African Platinum Mine

Abstract

The mining sector is viewed as the economic heartbeat of the Republic of South Africa. Mining houses acknowledge that human development is a powerful management instrument employed to encourage improvement in workers’ prowess, yet they are unaware of the significant implications that exogenous variables – inadequacy of housing could have on employees’ performance. This current paper was quantitative. Research instrument – A structured research questionnaire. The study surveyed 292 permanent underground miners’ from 2 idiosyncratic reefs. Using SPSS version 24.0, the empirical findings suggested that miners’ perceptions of exogenous factors were satisfactory even though their average production output was unsatisfactory.