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The Impact of Automation on Employment in Manufacturing Industry: a case of Coca Cola company in Tanzania

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dc.creator Goodluck, Sospeter
dc.date 2020-11-10T11:16:17Z
dc.date 2020-11-10T11:16:17Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-05T08:08:43Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-05T08:08:43Z
dc.identifier APA
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4518
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4518
dc.description A Thesis/Dissertation Submitted to School of Business in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of Master's Degree in Master of Business Administration (in Corporate Management)of Mzumbe University
dc.description The overall objective of this study was to examine how automation affects employment in the manufacturing industry in Tanzania, the case study of Coca Cola kwanza Ltd at Sam Nujoma Road Mikocheni Light Industrial Area in Dar es Salaam.This study aimed to: determine the influence of automation on the performance of manufacturing industries; understand the extent to which automation has affected jobs, skills, and wages in manufacturing industries; establish staff awareness on the cost and benefits of automation in the manufacturing industry. In this study, both descriptive and inferential analyses were used in the analysis of data, the descriptive analysis was conducted by indicating frequencies and percentages while the inferential analysis was performed through simple regression to indicate the connection between automation and employment in a company. All department staffs with a total number of 700 employees at Coca Cola kwanza were evaluated andthe major findings shown that the emergence of automation into the production process caused a decrease in the production cost per unit output through the time-saving, minimum workforce, and defect rate in production, meaning that employment of automation increases manufacturing performance.Also findings of this study shown that automation in manufacturing industries contribute in increasing unemployment level as automated machines are replacing human workers. The research concludes that automation plays important role to an organization and it has enabled Coca Cola kwanza company to increase and maintain better performance, such that with automation, the manufacturing industries can improve their performance in terms of improving product quality and production capacity, improve speed and output, and reducing product variability leading to reduction of production costs. But automation has also resulted in decreasing the number of workers in the company to a high extent, whereby many normally skilled workers in manufacturing industry have been replaced by fewer highly skilled workers. Therefore the study recommended that the government and manufacturing industries should cooperate in adopting new technology and developing strategies that will be beneficial to the society and industries.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Mzumbe University
dc.subject Automation affects employment
dc.subject Manufacturing industry in Tanzania
dc.subject Coca Cola kwanza Ltd
dc.subject Sam Nujoma Road Mikocheni Light Industrial Area in Dar es Salaam
dc.title The Impact of Automation on Employment in Manufacturing Industry: a case of Coca Cola company in Tanzania
dc.type Thesis


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