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Item Analysis of the profile of small and medium enterprises owned by public servants: the case of Dar es salaam region.(University of Dar es Salaam, 2005) John, SilverThe overall objective of this study was to determine the profile of the small and Medium Enterprises owned by the employees in the public services. The study used small-scale survey to collect primary data from a sample of 50 public servants who own business in Dar es salaam region. Results reveal that, generally the charactteristics of the business owned by the business owned by the public servants have some differences from those owned by unemployed persons. The employment characteristics of the owners, which included the age of the owners, their job positions, and locations of their work places, were found to influence most of the characteristics of businesses. These included the legal form of the businesses. As the employment persons, the business owners pointed out the need to apply the skills one obtained in the job and, and the need to have business which require less personal supervision as the main motivations towards choosing particular type of the business. The results point to the need for the policy makers and implementers to go into details of the needs of particular groups of stakeholders such as employed business owners, in the efforts to fight poverty in the country. The employers need to create and sustain environment conducive, to allow their employees to engage in the extra-job productive activities. Since the government is faced, most of the time with the budgetary constraints, this would allow public servants to generate supplement income to sustain their personal and family needs. Future study should be focused to establish the actual direction of the relationship between the owners’ employment and businesses characteristics. This will establish for example why; the older employed persons are involved in business more than younger ones? And what actually make the employed owners locate their businesses near/ away from their work places.Item Job embeddedness, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and academic staff retention in hard and soft academic disciplines in Tanzania’s universities(University of Dar es Salaam, 2018) John, SilverThis study examined the relationship between job embeddedness, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and academic staff retention in Tanzania’s universities. It specifically determined the appropriate job embeddedness model;examined the relationship between job embeddedness and academic staff retention, and moderating effect of academic discipline; and job embeddedness as a mediator of relationships between job satisfaction and retention, as well as affective commitment and retention. A survey was conducted using a sampleof 314 academic staff (210 male and 104 female) from five universities in Tanzania and data were analysed using SEM and AMOS. The results revealed that job embeddedness in the context of this study is a four factor model. As expected, more embedded academic staff members were more likely to stay in their universities and the relationship was stronger in soft than in hard academic discipline groups. Interestingly, academic staff members in hard academic disciplines that were more embedded in their community were less likely to stay with their universities. The results also revealed that higher perception of job embeddedness (organisation fit and sacrifice) increased the intention to stay among academic staff that are satisfied with their jobs, but had no effect on those who are committed to work.The results of this study point to the need for both the policy makers and practicing managers interested with academic staff retention to, first, integrate attitudinal and non-attitudinal interventions in their retention policies and strategies and, second, formulate and implement policies that accommodate behavioural differences of staff in different academic disciplines.