ABSTRACT This study assessed the beneficiaries‟ satisfaction on benefits received from social security institutions: A case of local Authorities Pensions Fund (LAPF) Headquarters in Dodoma. Three research objectives guided the study. First, to assess the level of satisfaction to beneficiaries‟ on the benefits offered by LAPF; secondly, to identify the causes of dissatisfaction to beneficiaries‟ in relation to the of benefits received from LAPF; and thirdly, to evaluate new ways, if any...
ABSTRACT The study was all about the relationship between the usage of media of communication and employee job satisfaction. This research was conducted in Arusha, Singida, and Babati urban water authorities. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the relationship between usage of print media and employee job satisfaction, to assess the relationship between the usage of non-print media and employee job satisfaction and to examine the relationship between usage of modern media...
ABSTRACT The study aspired to assess the civil society organizations in protecting the children‟s rights, a case study of Urban District, Zanzibar. The study was conducted in Urban District of Zanzibar. A total number of 80 respondents formed the study sample taken from the Urban District which includes four categories namely: Civil Society Officials, Parents, Children, Children‟s Council Board and law professionals whereby children, parents, and CSOs Officials were randomly selected whi...
ABSTRACT Females have· been seen across culture to have issues when it comes to expressing themselves in the public. In an attempt to express themselves without fear, certain individual related factors could have influence. The study investigated the influence of perceived body image and self-esteem on assertiveness among female students in Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti state Nigeria. Ex-post facto research .design was used in the study. Three hundred and fifteen female university...
ABSTRACT Various studies have implicated personality trait and other factors as determinants of academic performance. This study examined the role of parenting styles and personality trait in learning strategies employed by students particularly, among university undergraduates in Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti and Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE). In this study, parenting style (authoritarian, authoritative and permissive), personality trait (extraversion, openness, agreea...
ABSTRACT This research was undertaken at Chamwino District, in Chinangali II project of Dodoma region, the area was selected as it is where the newly agricultural population engaging in grape production is higher. Mainly the study aimed at examining the role of household in the process of participatory development planning (PDP) of development projects (DP) in Tanzania. Specifically the study examined the household perceptions on participation processes of PDP, household‟s perception on pa...
ABSTRACT This study was based on Comparative Analysis on Listed Stocks at the Dar-esSalaam Stock Exchange, (DSE) using two commercial banks as a Case Study. Generally, the study analysed the performance of bank stocks in DSE. The specific objectives were to work out some financial ratios and compare both ratios of NMB and CRDB banks, to find out the Market Capitalization of both banks and lastly, to investigate the challenges facing DSE. The sample size of 52 respondents was used. Methods us...
Abstract Tanzania ministries as well as the sugar board of Tanzania are not aware of recent sugar markets trends. This study attempts to examine the performance of Tanzania sugar exports and estimate sugar exports supply function for the 1977-2013 periods. To estimate annual growth rates for quantities of sugar produced, consumed, imported and exported, the geometric average was used by means of detailed data from country statistics through NBS, FAO and ITC computations. A multivariate regre...
ABSTRACT The government and the general public, is highly concerned on the question of collection of taxes as it forms the base for the government muscles to spend. On that consideration, the government has been using several strategies to ensure that people pay their tax dues and that, tax collectors remit the same to the authority. One of such strategies is the usage of EFDs (electronic fiscal devices) by traders as directed by the government. This study was put in place in order to invest...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on The Factors Affecting Maternal Health Care Services in Government Hospitals and Health Centers in Dodoma Urban as social problem affecting most of women under the study area. It was guided by the following specific objectives; to evaluate maternal health care provider‟s availability situation in the study area, to examine the accessibility of maternal health care facilities/services in the study area and to investigate effects of relationship between maternal ...
ABSTRACT The intention o this study was to investigate the contributions of Action for Development Programs (ADP) towards the improvement of maize production in Tanzania. The study started by examining factors determining maize production in Mbozi before the establishment of ADP. The method used in this study was the case study. A sample size of 87 respondents was obtained from 640 members who were beneficiary of ADP and divided into two categories. The first category was ADP staff members ...
ABSTRACT In understanding organisational behavior, Workplace incivility was assumed to be influenced by delayed salary and perceived organizational support in an organization. An ExPostfacto research design was adopted for the study while a sample of 152 local government workers completed measures of delayed salary, perceived organisational support and workplace incivility as measured by a well structured self -report instrument. Result of the findings shows that there is a significant di...
ABSTRACT Electricity is the major energy source used across the world, and Zanzibar is part of the world that is continuously using electricity for domestic purposes and in production activities. The study sought to examine the contribution of electricity on poverty reduction initiatives in Zanzibar. The following were the study objectives: to determine the rate of growth of electricity in the study areas, examine the existing poverty reduction initiatives in Zanzibar Urban West region, asse...
ABSTRACT This study investigated sexual molestation among Christian religious leaders in Ekiti State, the study focused on the perception of the society about sexual molestation, factors responsible and consequences of sexual molestation among Christian religious leaders, structure put in place by the religious bodies and society to address this challenge and its success and ways by which sexual molestation among Christian religious lc:ider can be reel uced within the society. The popula...
ABSTRACT Social inequality in health care grew dramatically in the 1980s and has remained at a high level ever since. Health inequality is the differences that occurs in health status or in the distribution of health determinates between different population groups, these social inequalities in health are responsible for the dramatic differences that occur in health seeking behavior of people in the society at large. It was on this note that this research examines the effect of social ine...