ABSTRACT Agriculture is one of the major economic activities in Tanzania. The sector links crops cultivation, forest, fishing and livestock production. Livestock contributes seven percent of the total Gross Domestic Product and poultry production contributes 1.8% only. Poultry farming present an interested case and continue to play an important role in the context of food demand resulted by high population and mounting land constraint. On the other hand, Poultry sector is still underutilized...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the Knowledge and Awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder among school teachers in Ekiti State. The study is a school based cross-sectional study. A total of 107 teachers were sampled for the study. Knowlecege of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASK-ASD) was used to assess knowledge while an ordinary awareness questionnarc was used to assess the teachers awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) . Five hypotheses were tested. 111e result revealed that there is no sig...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at assessing the influence of information technology on the performance of small and medium enterprises in Tanzania by comparing between adopters and non-adopters. The study used descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling to test relationships of which path analysis, T- test and correlation analysis were done to analyse IT skills, IT usefulness, It ease of use and IT cost effectiveness in relation to dependent variables of the performance such as mark...
ABSTRACT This research aimed at examining the problems influencing organizational core values as the available solution for organization failure to attain its set objectives. The researcher was concerned with the growing rate of sick public sectors, which are perceived to have affected community development. The study taking DAWASCO as a case study, begun with the proposition that there were direct link between organizational core values and better performance of public sectors, in provision...
ABSTRACT The improvement in management sciences and technology, which demands complex skills, knowledge, and experiences has made staff training a compulsory task. It is because of this trend that this work is being carried out inorder to evaluate the training and development programmes in Nigeria Public Sector with special reference to MB-Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company, Emene, Enugu State. The research equally probes into the impact of Human resources training and development on worker...
ABSTRACT This study was concerned with the role of secondary school inspectorate department on enhancing students‟ performance. The main aim was to explore the extent to which school inspection has an impact upon students‟ performance. The study was essentially quntitative with some aspects of a qualitative approach and it employed 61 respondents. These were 50 teachers, 8 school inspectors, 1 chief inspector, 1 district education officer, 1 district executive director. Empirical data we...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the HIV sero-status disclosure behavior of infected individuals in Enugu State Nigeria and to ascertain whether this is related to their quality of life. Respondents were adults living with HIV/AIDS who were residing in Enugu State Nigeria and who were recruited through snowball sampling process involving support groups registered with the Enugu State Agency for AIDS Control (ENSACA). The study had 474 valid responses of which 41.5% are males...
ABSTRACT This study, has intended to investigate the relationship between employees’ perceptions on customer services and customers’ loyalty: A case study of Malaika hotel. A cross sectional research design and explanatory design was adopted; a sample size of 138 respondents was obtained through a purposive and systematic random sampling. The study has used quantitative method for data analysis. Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version23 was used to analyze the data. Finding...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the assessment of strategies for effective human resources training and utilization in the Nigerian public organization. As a strategic as well as operational activity of the human resources management that has been for long denied adequate attention, the researcher used four specific objectives to capture the over all objective of the study. The relevance of the study lies on the fact that it among other things explored the areas of strength and weaknesses in t...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of decentralization reforms on health service delivery in the local government authorities in Tanzania. The study specifically assessed the community perceptions on the role of decentralization reforms, the influence of decentralization reforms on improved quality, access and delivery of health care services and finally identified and analyzed major challenges in the implementation of decentralization reforms in Tanzania. Karagwe District was the case ...
ABSTRACT This study used a 2x2x2 factorial design to examine framing, certainty and gender effects on security strategy decision. One hundred and twenty (60 male, 60 female) first year students of psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, whose ages ranged from 16-29 years (M = 20.35 years, SD =2.85 years) participated in the study. Framing was varied into positive and negative framing conditions certainty was varied into certainty and uncertainty conditions, while gender was categorized in...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Moshi District Council. The main objective of the study was to investigate how decentralization has influenced secondary schools teachers‟ management. The study was guided by four specific objectives to which decentralization has affected secondary school teachers management in Moshi District council; to examine to what extent Moshi District Council officers affected teachers‟ management under decentralization appropriately, to investigate how the adm...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the interface between neoliberal reform and food security in Ebonyi State, between 1999 and 2013. While observing that agriculture had in the past contributed to both national and state prosperity and food security, the study also noted sharp decline in the performance which coincided with the Nigeria’s implementation of neoliberal policies under civil rule in 1999. Most of the policies targeted the agricultural sector, include: deregulation of agricultural...
ABSTRACT The study focused on examining the implementation of administrative decentralization in Mbozi District Council, Tanzania. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the components of Administrative decentralization in Tanzania, to examine how Mbozi District Council implement decentralization particularly Human resource management component, to examine the influence of administrative decentralization in the performance of the Council and to examine challenges for effective...
ABSTRACT The study investigated HIV/AIDS status, locus of control and religious affiliation as factors in death anxiety among three hundred and ninety (390) adults in Nsukka Local Government Area. It was hypothesized that HIV/AIDS status, locus of control and religious affiliation will not be a significant factor in death anxiety among adults in Nsukka Local Government Area. Three instruments were used for data collation in this study: The Death anxiety scale, Locus of control of behav...