ABSTRACT There were allegations that, the rampant occurrences of road accidents caused by business based motorcycle drivers, were primarily caused by their poor driving behaviors. This study, was out to assess the business based motorcycle drivers‟ behaviors that influenced reckless driving. The study had three objectives, namely; to identify factors which made business based motorcycle drivers to drive recklessly, to determine their perceptions towards driving and to investigate on the cha...
ABSTRACT To remain competitive in the service industry, it is essential for companies to understand the concept of service quality and customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to gather more knowledge about the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction of NamPower residential customers in Namibia, using the five dimensions of the SERVQUAL model. The study investigated whether customer perceptions of NamPower services match their expectations; if perceptions exceeded e...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at exploring the impacts of HR practices towards the business and services organization in Tanzania context. And this is because for a number of years Tanzania services and business organization have had severe problems between the organization growth and labor performance thus encountering a number of firms or institutions extinctions or ineffective performance. And in recent years some business and services organization developed interest on the use of various HR p...
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the attitude of MBA students of the Namibia Business School at the University of Namibia, toward personal financial planning. The study followed a quantitative research approach using an explorative descriptive design. A survey method using a questionnaire adopted from a previous study on financial literacy and personal financial planning, namely the Financial Planning Scale, was adopted for this study. The population comprised of all NBS-...
Abstract The study was aimed at investigating the strategy used by the Namibian government in providing housing to the low-income families in the Okuryangava suburb in the Khomas Region. Simple random and purposive sampling methods were selected for this study. A questionnaire and interview schedule were used as instruments for data collection. The study found that government programmes in place for housing provision for the low-income people fail to meet their objectives and housing demands...
ABSTRACT Social security means any kind of collective measures or activities designed to ensure that members of society meet basic needs with adequate protection from the contingencies for required standard of living under a certain society. This study focused on the influence of the social security fund in the socio-economic welfare of the pensioners. It respectively addressed the livelihood strategy after retirement, the procedure and method used to pay pensions and strategies for social se...
Abstract The existing studies on the relationship between development finance and employment creation provide conclusive empirical evidence. This study was conducted to evaluate the development finance and employment creation from 2004 to 2014 at the Development Bank of Namibia. This study used a sample of 17 credit and lending employees from the Development Bank of Namibia head office. Seventeen Questionnaires were distributed using a simple random sampling technique and all questionnaires ...
ABSTRACT Change has become important and unavoidable in today’s business environment. The dynamic business environment of today requires organisations to appoint leaders of a required calibre. To effectively appoint such leaders especially at the board level, criteria is required to determine the skills possessed by an individual. The study was conducted to investigate and establish the existence of criteria for appointment of board members in selected public enterprises within the road in...
Abstract The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate the role of leadership in water technology innovations in enhancing job creation in the Kavango East Region. The main theoretical framework comes from theories on leadership as a key aspect to socio-economic development. Inclusive in this framework were perspectives of leadership support such as resources allocation, effective communication and clear vision as the most important qualities and actions which a leader needs to ...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at analysing the role of stakeholders in enhancing the Local Economic Development (LED) initiative at the City of Windhoek (CoW). The study examined stakeholders’ collaboration and management roles in enhancing the LED in the CoW. The study made recommendations to policymakers and principals on how LED can positively impact the livelihood of the people in the CoW. The study adopted a qualitative research design because the design allows the researcher to inter...
ABSTRACT Tourism has been regarded as one of the most suitable industries for the development of remote rural locations in Namibia. The potential for tourism activities to enhance the standards of living among rural communities is a viable endeavour. Towards that end, Community Based Natural Resource Management concepts have been applied all over Namibia in an attempt to empower local communities and allow them to generate economic benefits from their natural environments. The problem concer...
Abstract This study attempts to analyze the impact of capital structure on the financial performance of firms listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange. The numerous capital structure theories and inconclusive empirical evidence on the relationship between capital structure and profitability motivated the researcher to carry out this study. A quantitative study using secondary data from financial statements published on the websites of 21 of the 32 firms listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange us...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to explore students’ perceptions of the service quality offered by the Namibia Business School in relation to its degree and diploma programmes as well as to measure the gap between students’ perceptions and expectations from the Namibia Business School. The study chose a sample of n=114 from a population size of N= 228 of the programmes that ran on a long-term basis, where students would have been engaged with the school for a longer period and these s...
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the Namibian Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) in recovering loans. The Namibia Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) is a scheme designed to replace the Public Service Bursary The scheme, whose purpose was to sponsor students so that they would be bonded to work solely in the Civil Service. Soon after Independence, the demand for recruits in the Civil Service was significantly decreased, following the integr...
Abstract Sovereign Debt Management has become an important practice in many developing countries and emerging market economies. The debt crisis in 1982 and the recent European debt crisis has triggered the interest of many governments in developing countries to develop capacity in Sovereign Debt Management. Many developing countries had failed to honour their debt obligations and had applied for debt relief from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Namibia had no exception that it...