The Performance of Training Executive A gencies in Tanzania: Do Skills and Skill-based Organizational Strategies Matter?
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2024
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Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science
Abstract
questionnaires and interview to examine five training EAs: Tanzania Public Service College
(TPSC), Agency for Development of Education Management (ADEM), Tanzania Institute of
Accountancy (TIA), Livestock Training Agency (LITA), and Fisheries Education and Training
Agency (FETA). Regarding the sampling technique, the study adopted the multi-stage sampling
design. In the first step, training EAs were divided into two strata (basing on establishment age).
From the old aged stratum, three EAs were selected, and two from the newly aged stratum. In the
second step, the academic staff from the training executive agencies was sampled purposefully.
The cross-sectional explanatory analytical survey was used to collected data once without tracking
data changes. While descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data from the
questionnaires, thematic analysis was employed to analyze the qualitative data. Regarding the
skills availability among the Tanzania’s training executive agencies, the findings showed that the
majority of the employees possessed the necessary professional, project management, inventive,
and interpersonal skills. Few employees possessed pedagogical, technological, and multicultural
skills. The findings on the degree of performance of Tanzania's training executive agencies
revealed unsatisfactory performance, and it was determined that these agencies had not
significantly enhanced the delivery of public services. The findings also showed that training EAs
underinvested in skill-based organizational strategies. Notably, when individual competence levels
rise, executive agencies' performance is likely to increase. Furthermore, the findings showed that
human resource strategies and partnerships were the most important factors in improving the
Tanzania’s EAs performance.
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Skills, skill-based organizational strategies, executive agencies, performance.