Today, two seemingly significant scenarios can be observed in the real world of work – the labor market has dramatically changed and is still changing fast and companies are usually into reorganization, reengineering, and retrenchment, leaving only the core functions of their businesses.  With the influx of modernization and machination, only few companies, if ever, are hiring regular employees.  Gone are the days when regular employees greatly outnumber the casual, contractual, or temporary employees in a particular firm or business operation.  With shifting customer preferences, companies need to be strategically flexible in order to cut cost at every opportunity to remain competitive. This phenomenon has led to contracting out jobs, “labor only contracting” and now what some business gurus called it – the business of outsourcing.

Responding to this challenge, SOUTHERN GLOBAL SERVICES MULTIPURPOSE COOPERATIVE has trail blazed a new path in providing total service solutions.  As a service entity, one of its central objectives is to provide sustainable livelihood projects for its owner-members through engagement in providing a variety of services for its client companies in activities in its production, manufacturing, office administration, maintenance, and more. With the continuous rise of contractual or temporary employment spawned by the imperatives of market flexibility in the provision of goods and services, workers at this point in time, need even more protection ever than before.  Employers, on the other hand, must be assured of continued supply of services by a qualified, hardworking, skilled, competent and educated workforce as they venture and negotiate the rocky road of corporate survival in this highly competitive local and global business environment.

A new kind of security will be introduced – employability.  The ability to readily find a job, on the part of the workers, if and when they lost one, and the assurance of a steady supply of qualified, skilled, productive and competent workforce as partners or associates, on the part of the Company.

Such is a system wherein the member-workers can soon overcome the intermittent/marginal income they usually ended-up to.  Having a new mindset, transforming themselves into an entrepreneurs, will certainly bring them into improving and upgrading the quality of their working lives while they enjoy engaging their skills, talents or services to companies, who now become their clients or customers.  Being treated as customers, companies can now engage the services of the Cooperative Owner-Member for as long as they need them without fear or establishing an employer-employee relationship.  Thus, making them more competitive by being able to eliminate the costly recurring recruitment and training of personnel needed in the operation of their businesses.

At this  juncture, applying the Cooperative principles, systems and structures in a corporate setting, will certainly make a big difference, for both labor and management.  Workers turned entrepreneurs will find a gainful and productive opportunities.  On the other hand, employers now find a partner who could provide them with “services” they need at all times by a team of “partners-associates” – The Cooperative.

Currently, SGSMPC is now going forth towards Total Quality Service Management (TQSM) System – a revolutionary, leading-edge business model in the Cooperative Service industry.  This is a strategic advancement beyond the limited realms of plain manpower sourcing.  The heart of the TQSM System is to support our valued clients by providing a complete support service system – in order to permit them to have more time to effectively manage their core business.  More importantly, the Cooperative works hard to provide more benefits for its owner-members in order to further help them augment their morale through an significant improvement in their total quality of life. Truly, SGSMPC does not just aim to provide jobs but to change lives!