Analysis of the profile of small and medium enterprises owned by public servants: the case of Dar es salaam region.
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2005
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University of Dar es Salaam
Abstract
The 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.
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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark (THS EAF HD62.7.J6)
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Small bussiness, Public servants, Management, Dar es Salaam
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John, S (2005) Analysis of the profile of small and medium enterprises owned by public servants: the case of Dar es salaam region.Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam.