Improving the organisational effectiveness of cooperative enterprises in the Limpopo Province of South Africa

Abstract: The study is based on the cooperative enterprises in Limpopo province, with the highest mortality rate, the study investigated the cause of failure and came up with the Effective Cooperative Enterprise Framework, which is the integration of CVF for organisational effectiveness, OD interventions and principles and values of cooperative enterprises. The main findings of the report shows that members lack of cooperative knowledge within the cooperative members and the interested stakeholders. There is also a lack of interrelationship among the stakeholders, namely government (Agencies, local municipalities and departments), and corporates. The main aim of the frameworks is to instil cooperative members with the values and principles through behavioural science and develop a relationship where the stakeholders can engage in sharing experiences and finding a way in intervening within the cooperative enterprises. To make the cooperative members aware of both internal and external factors that brakes or makes the enterprise and effective organisation. The two frameworks which where developed in this study are Cooperative Effectiveness Internal Framework (CEIF) and Cooperative Effectiveness External Framework (CEEF). Data was collected using observations, case study, survey questions and interviews, the members of cooperative enterprises on the 200 cooperatives that were visited, had played a role in one of the four methods used in the study. The SPSS was used to analyse the survey questionnaires. The questionnaires were respondend to by 179 members out of the 250 survey questions that was given to cooperative members, group discussion, observations and individual interviews were done with 150 cooperatives and 13 cooperatives were chosen to form case studies included in this study. The cooperative had to take continuous learning very seriously and this needs to be done with the help of all the stakeholders supporting cooperative. It needs to be a must that cooperative member’s masters and practice principles and values of cooperative enterprises as this determines the success of their business.M.Tech. (Operations Management