A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Administration in Corporate Management
(MBA-CM) of the Mzumbe University
The purpose of this study was assessing the role of leadership in the growth of youth small and medium enterprises at Kinondoni municipal Council in Tanzania. The study employed a case study design with targeted population in this study were 1,840 youth and employed simple random and purposive sampling to select sample of 95 participants in this study. The study relied on primary data that were collected using questionnaire and interview. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and correlation analysis.
The study observed that creating visionary business activities, inspiring business activities, promoting daring in business, promoting risk taking business activities, promoting impacting skills in business activities, promoting management business activities and promoting problem solving business activities are the important roles leadership plays on youth enterprise development at Kinondoni Municipal Council. The study found that there are positive and weak significant relationship between role of creating visionary business activities, inspiring in business activities, skills impact in business activities and problem solving business activities on capital growth investment in business activities, sales growth and profit growth because the p-value is less than 0.05 while there are positive and weak insignificant relationship between daring in business activities, risk taking in business activities and management business activities on capital growth investment in business activities because the p-value is greater than 0.05.
The study recommends that it is the time for the youth at Kinondoni Municipal Council implements the leadership roles related with creating visionary business activities, inspiring business activities, promoting daring in business, promoting risk taking business activities, promoting impacting skills in business activities, promoting management business activities and promoting problem solving business activities as strategies in facilitating performance of their business activities.