Perhaps employees do not see the point in acquainting themselves with all the fine details for as long as they
know the institute has mission and vision statements unless their job descriptions point them in that direction. A
second reason may be attributed to management‟s inability to get that mission-organisational alignment where
components form the basis for measuring and rewarding performance as suggested by Bart et al. (2001). In an
attempt to explore any possible relationship between staff category and the level of awareness of the
components/contents of the mission and vision statements, the following hypothesis was tested: