Publication: Input is as Good as Output: Effect of Training Inputs on Competencies of Business Trainees in Marsabit County, Kenya
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2018
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Mount Kenya University
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Abstract
Business training is a key intervention mechanism for building competencies
of business trainees which have yielded satisfactory results around the
world. Efforts to enhance business competencies of youths, women and
self-help groups in Marsabit Central and Marsabit South Sub-Counties
which employed Systematic Training Cycle (STC) approaches had mix
results. In addition, the youth development index and gender equality index
were below the national indices of 0.58 and 0.65 respectively. The study
areas also have unemployment rate of 65% among the youths and women.
Motivated by these scenarios, a study was designed to analyze effects of
business management training input on the business competencies of the
trainees in the study areas. The study showed that about 50% of all business
trainers have not trained their trainees in basic business management areas
while 35.5% of the business trainees did not receive any repeat training as
attested by the t-test (t = 0.01, p-value = 0.992, α=0.05) and Pearson Product
Moment correlation coefficient (ρ=0.897). It was further established that
generally the training input did not have significant effect on the business
competencies of the trainees (b0 = 0.141, α = 0.05). However, sourcing of
funds (p = 0.041, α=0.05), business communication (p= 0.029, α=0.05) and
product/service selling (p = 0.044, α=0.05) had some significant effects on
the trainees. These results depict that training inputs have not significantly
enhanced the business competencies of the trainees. This implies that
there could be internal or external training programme factors that may
have contributed to such low business competence transfer.
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Systematic Training Cycle, Training Inputs, Business Competence