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Contact Person (Training) Mr. Mark Mfunguo
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Seminars & Training The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) has used different approaches to sensitize its members on the importance of human resource development through the adoption of needs – based and member driven training programmes. ATE has always stressed that training is a major tool in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness which are absolutely necessary for higher performance in almost all work places. It is through training that the workforce is provided with requisite attitudes, skills and current knowledge to perform well at assigned tasks and responsibilities. ATE has stressed to its members that worker training begins with the induction or initiation and orientation of newly employed staff. This enables newly employed workers to capture the demands of the work environment thus aligning themselves to perform well. The Association has seized every opportunity to sensitize Human Resources Managers on the importance of having in place a well designed induction and orientation programmes for their newly recruited employees; such programmes have the effect of acquainting new employees with the kind of tasks they will have to perform and how best they can perform them to attain the right set performance targets. In other words ATE has insisted that employee training ought to begin at the employee induction and orientation programmes of the enterprises. 2. ATEs TRAINING PROGRAMMES The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) has offered a number of training Programmes on Industrial Relations Issues, Supervisory Management, Strategic Management and Competitiveness Market Issues. The aim has been to provide the management of member enterprises with requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage their enterprises proactively and to enhance their competitive edge. In accordance with the evaluation reports which we have compiled systematically at the completion of each training, most participants have found the training provided educative, informative and useful in performing their managerial roles better. Of recent the Association has been training human resource practitioners
on understanding of the New Labour Laws of Tanzania with the objective
of equipping those key personnel with requisite skills and knowledge
of the application of those New Labour Laws at the wok places
prior to their becoming operational in August 2006. Our statistics show that ATE has trained over 1,200 human resources practioners on the New Labour Laws since August 2004. In addition a number of enterprises have requested for In – House Training for their human resource practioners and senior personnel which ATE has provided. In House Training Programmes usually take 1 – 2 days duration. The Association has also developed three pocket size booklets which contain the two Acts of the New Labour Laws and a Guideline. These booklets have been useful and handy in the dissemination of the New Labour Laws. 3. FUTURE ATE TRAINING PROGRAMMES It is the intention of the ATE to provide training in other work place related issues such as: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) initiatives, Effective Supervisory Skills, Productivity Improvement Programmes, Performance Target Setting and Evaluation and other relevant work place issues including skills on bipartite Trade Union and Management Bargaining and effective Negotiation skills. To gauge members and non – member enterprises on how best such training should be conducted and contents the ATE will endeavor to capture member’s training needs through a members training needs questionnaire so that ATE can effectively respond in providing appropriate programmes across the board. Currently, however, the ATE has found the participants pre-programme “EXPECTATIONS” and after – training “EVALUATIONS” by participants very valuable and useful in improving the design of future programmes with a view to making them more relevant and targeted. |
