ABSTRACT The study was based on assessing the trends and problems of Own source revenue collection in Local Government Authorities. It was conducted in Singida Municipal Council where Utemini, Ipembe Majengo, Mandewa, and Misuna wards were selected for study. This study specifically focused on three issues which are Identification of methods used to collect revenue in Singida municipality, problems affecting revenue collection trends and the contribution of other sources of revenue to the dis...
ABSTRACT This study, on factors contributing to the increase of child labour in Tanzania, was conducted in order to fulfill three objectives. These were; to identify factors that led to the growth of child labour in Dodoma urban, to establish the activities performed by children engaged in child labour and to establish challenges facing children to engage in child labour. The study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality, by considering it as a proxy of other cities/towns in the country, which f...
ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the inventory management practiced in organization using a case study of the higher learning organization located in Dodoma Municipality. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were employed as well as the sample of 51 respondents was taken. Data collection was carried out March 2013, while data analysis and report writing was done from May to June 2013. The study used questionnaires, personal interviewed, documentary reviewed and observatio...
ABSTRACT The Purpose of this study was to understand the knowledge transfer from developed nations to local businesses in Tanzania. The objectives of the study were to understand the major business conducted by Bakhressa Group of Companies (BGC), to assess the transfer of knowledge towards production and to identify the challenges face by BGC in adopting knowledge transfer from developed countries. Data collection methods include structured questionnaires, Focus Group Discussion (F-G-D), Key ...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the factors influencing loan repayment among SACCOS members, specifically in CHAMIHADO SACCOS in Dodoma Municipality. It was guided by three specific objectives namely: to understand the loan process of CHAMIHADO SACCOS members, to assess the loan repayment rate among members and to determine factors influencing loan repayment among CHAMIHADO SACCOS members. The sample size of 88 respondents were employed whereby simple random sampling and purposive sampling techn...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of social security investments in improving retirement benefits, a case study of Local Authorities Pensions Fund (LAPF) Head Offices in Dodoma. Four research objectives guided the study. First, to find out the types of investments held by LAPF, in the second place was to find out the proportion of members contribution towards payment of their retirement benefits; thirdly, to find out the proportion of investment income towards improvement of the retirem...
ABSTRACT The non-financial supports and performance of micro-enterprise in Tanzania from government and non-government agencies was clearly addressed. Specifically the study addressed types of non-financial supports offered by government agencies to micro-enterprises, types of non-financial supports offered by non-government agencies to micro-enterprises and relationship between non-financial supports (from both agencies) and performance of Micro-enterprises. The study was adopted a cross-sec...
ABSTRACT Job satisfaction is a special ingredient for employee’s productivity. It is believed that, happy employees are productive than unhappy employees, for that reason, job satisfaction is quite imperative for the success of organization. This study intends to address the factors influencing job satisfaction among Employees in Pensions Funds, Dodoma Tanzania. Specifically, it considered organizational factors, technological factors on job and tasks related factors on job satisfaction. Th...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to examine the importance of employee’s participation in decision making and its impacts on workers performance. It was guided by three objectives namely: to examine the perception of workers towards participative decision making, to analyze the extent to which employees participate in organizational decision-making affects performance, and identifying managerial factors affecting workers participation in decision making. The study used Management by objecti...
ABSTRACT This study, was conducted to investigate challenges facing women in management positions, in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Tanzania, taking the University of Dodoma as a case study. The specific objectives of this study were to determine how women entered in management positions, to evaluate the level of job satisfaction, to understand the perceptions of people towards women in management positions and to identify challenges encountered women in management positions. To...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the factors that hinder the growth and survival of small and micro enterprises (SMEs) in Tanzania; with Tanga City SMEs as a case study. This study focused on three issues. These include the investigation of the major factors constraining the growth and survival of (SMEs), exploration of the efforts made by the government to deal with problems facing (SMEs) and an assessment of solutions to the problems. The sample size was 180 respondents. The study used prim...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to examine the influence of informality on employee’s performance in public institutions. This included looking at how informal channels of communication, social networks and managerial interpersonal skills influence the performance of academic staff in public universities in terms of teaching, research and consultancy.The population of studyincluded all academic staff in University of Dar es Salaam and University of Dodoma with the sample size of 100. The study em...
ABSTRACT This study, seeks to describe the contributions of hides and skins to the small scale livestock keepers in Tanzania. The study was conducted at Kwimba District in Mwanza Tanzania. A cross sectional research design was adopted; a sample size of 151 respondents was obtained through both purposive and non-purposive sampling techniques. The study has used both quantitative and non-qualitative methods for data analysis. Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) and Excel were used to ...
ABSTRACT This study had three objectives to accomplish, namely; to explore the perceptions of customers regarding services offered by CRDB bank, to explore the factors which are key determinants of customer satisfaction for services offered by CRDB Bank, to investigate on the challenges facing the bank in making its customers satisfied with the services offered and to analyze the relationship between customer satisfaction and retention for CRDB bank. The study was based at Dodoma Municipality...
ABSTRACT The banking sector is one of the most powerful financial management agencies which have a major role in the economic growth of Tanzania. Due to its necessity on the national economy every bank has the need to maintain good organizational culture for the employees as to avoid bank stress. Depending on the type of culture that is created in an organization, it can have a positive or negative effect on employee performance and job stress. Therefore, this study has intended to analyze th...