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Skills Development Challenges and Their Mitigation in Informal Micro Enterprises in Tanzania

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dc.creator Msuya, Mwanaidi Shafii
dc.date 2019-03-16T13:11:31Z
dc.date 2019-03-16T13:11:31Z
dc.date 2019-01
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-05T13:34:58Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-05T13:34:58Z
dc.identifier Mwanaidi Shafii Msuya (2019), Paper Title: Skills Development Challenges and their mitigation in Informal Micro Enterprises in Tanzania. Business Education Journal (BEJ),
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/141
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/74360
dc.description Possession of relevant skills opens new opportunities for informal microbusiness to improve their productivity hence become competitive. However, the available means of skills development are not user friendly to micro enterprises. The objective of this research is to investigate strategies of skills development relevant to informal micro businesses in Tanzania. Based on desktop research the study identifies challenges of skills development to include; ignorance, perceived cost, lack of resources, employees poaching and lack of contextualized skills development programs. The study proposed a set of alternative approaches to skills development in informal micro business which include; e-learning, public funded or low-cost skills development schemes, usage of psychological contracts, contextualizing the skills development programs, and ubiquitous learning.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education
dc.relation Volume 2;Issue No: 2
dc.subject Skills development, informal microbusinesses, micro enterprises, informal workers.
dc.subject Skills development
dc.subject informal microbusinesses
dc.subject micro enterprises
dc.subject informal workers
dc.title Skills Development Challenges and Their Mitigation in Informal Micro Enterprises in Tanzania
dc.type Article


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