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`CTI members` businesses need capacity building programmes`
2007-07-26 09:53:17
By Patrick Kisembo
The Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI) has said lack of specialised and competent arrangements within the members` businesses on issues of human resource capacity building was a major constraint.
A member of the CTI Governing Council, Yogesh Manek told participants at a one-day training workshop on strategic leadership in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday.
Manek said the absence of competent arrangements had hindered the business chamber to deal with issues related to human resource capacity building for its members, their peers, suppliers and customers.
In a speech read on his behalf by the CTI Executive Director, Christine Kilindu, Manek said the CTI governing council decided to re-establish its business development unit, which is to identify human resource capacity gaps among the members’ businesses.
``We did that after realising that not all members and their stakeholders had the capacity to address the resources related constraints at the firm level,” he said.
Manek said the perception that members and other enterprises could themselves address human resource capacity constraints contributed to lack of activities on human resource direction.
``It is true that in the past CTI paid more attention and targeted its resources to influencing the formulation of business-friendly policies,`` he said.
Manek said: “We are only too aware that we paid inadequate attention and directed very little efforts towards addressing form level challenges facing our members and their peers, especially in the human resource capacity building.”
He said the re-established Business development unit would be dealing with all matters related to human resource capacity building, to organise appropriate training, workshops, roundtables and seminars to address the gaps.
He said the unit would have the responsibilities of assisting members and their stakeholders to prepare business profiles and plans.
``It will also undertake project write-ups and offer consultancy services appropriate to companies` needs,`` he said.
Manek urged firms to acquire new skills in managing and running their businesses more effectively and efficiently in order to withstand and sustain immense business competition in the world.
``We believe that strategic leadership enables executives in organisation to maximise use of their scarce human and financial resources in order to achieve maximum possible outputs, especially profit creation and customer satisfaction,`` said Manek.
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