Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Employability of Graduates from Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Tanzania: The Moderating Role of Self-Efficacy.

Waziri, Mahija (2024) Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Employability of Graduates from Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Tanzania: The Moderating Role of Self-Efficacy. Doctoral thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study aimed to examine the influence of entrepreneurship education items of knowledge, training and competence on the employability of Technical and Vocational Education and Training graduates in Tanzania using self-efficacy as a moderating variable. The Human Capital Theory and Self-efficacy Theories were employed to inform the theoretical framework. The research was conducted in Tanzania under a survey strategy that employed 353 respondents. The Convenience and snowball sampling techniques were used to gather representative. Structural Equation Modelling was used to test the postulated hypothesis of the study. All relevant model assumptions were tested to ensure that the estimates were not biased by their deviations in the data. The moderation analysis on self-efficacy was conducted using the multi-group moderation technique using Structural Equation Modelling was used. The findings showed that entrepreneurship knowledge, training and competence positively and significantly influence graduates’ employability. The results of the multi-group moderation analysis suggest a positive and insignificant effect on the relationship of entrepreneurship knowledge and employability, while suggesting positive and significant moderating effect on entrepreneurship training and competence on employability of graduates. The study concluded that, Human Capital Theory can be moderated by the levels of self-efficacy, hence improves its ability to predict employability. In summarily, results indicated that, entrepreneurship competence contributes more on graduate’s employability than others. Thus, study recommends training institutions to focus on building entrepreneurial competence to endure graduates’ employability. Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, employability, TVET graduates, Tanzania

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