MBA graduate Ms Nontobeko Myeni.Sacrifice Pays Big Dividend
Quitting her high paying job as a Plant Engineer at Foskor to focus on an MBA proved to be a worthwhile sacrifice for graduate, Ms Nontobeko Myeni.
A passion to acquire business and leadership skills for career advancement saw Myeni complete her dissertation in one semester with a pass mark of 75%.
‘I had to quit my job because I would not have been able to do my MBA without it affecting my family. The job is consuming and you are required to be on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,’ said Myeni.
Married mother-of-three, Myeni decided on a less hectic job with more flexibility with the rub being a 40% salary cut. She moved from Richards Bay to Durban to achieve a healthy balance between work and study and her private life.
She said the knowledge she gained from the MBA experience was worth it. ‘Doing an MBA opened my mind and being grouped with talented candidates challenged me. I now know more about myself and am able to manage myself which is handy when you also need to manage others. I could not have done this without the support of my family and my in-laws. I can’t wait to celebrate this achievement with them,’ she said.
Myeni’s research was titled: “Perceptions of Factors leading to Compliance on an Operation Improvement System at Sasol Wax in Durban”.
It explored the success of a new system to improve operations at Sasol Wax through evaluating how well it was used by employees. The study was supervised by Dr Cecil Gewel-Proches.