Challenges Of Democratization In The Democratic Republic Of Congo (Drc)

Yigzaw, Gedifew Sewenet

doi:10.18196/jgp.10299

Cited by 2 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, two major factors complicate the recruitment process: (1) the conflict of generations and (2) the practice of referral of certain youths to public service positions by relatives with political mileage or those with executive job positions in the public sector. The current study sought to objectively investigate the influential employment factors by conducting empirical research through factor analysis in order to obtain valid and reliable outcomes of the employment criterion in the DRC, a country with multiple socio-political variances (Yigzaw, 2019).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Congolese Information Technology Graduates’ Employability: Towards Sustainable Employment

Héritier Nsenge,

Lucy Waruguru,

Simon Nyaga

2023

Sage Open

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

High unemployment rates in many developing countries have prompted research to focus on sustainability and inclusiveness of employment in line with the sustainable development goal target 8.6. The democratic republic of Congo (DRC) in sub-Saharan Africa experiences one of the highest youth unemployment rates owing to its long-term socio-political and economic instability. Qualitative and quantitative research studies have linked low employability of university-educated youth in the DRC to tribalism, corruption, and insecurity. The current study sought to identify contextual factors that predict employability of information technology (IT) graduates in the DRC. The study surveyed 355 graduates (274 male, 81 female) using 43 questionnaire. Bartlett test was 3,930.05 for Chi2 ( p-value = .000) and KMO test scored 0.68. McDonald’s Omega test of reliability of the instrument scored 0.77 with a total cumulative variance of 72.02%. Results of this study advance the conflict theory by pinpointing the true factors which influence the employability of IT graduates in unstable developing countries. This study has discovered that socio-political background of graduates, graduate academic competencies, graduate-employer relationship, and university employability strategies are the contextual factors that predict the employability of IT graduates in the DRC. The Cronbach’s Alpha test of reliability for the retained contextual factors scored .78, .75, .63, and .53, respectively.

show abstract

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Congolese Information Technology Graduates’ Employability: Towards Sustainable Employment

Héritier Nsenge,

Lucy Waruguru,

Simon Nyaga

2023

Sage Open

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The same is true even in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where leadership crisis has been the norm since the country gained independence in 1960 (Yahaya & Bello, 2020). Research has widely recognized (Njie, 2016;Muyingi, 2017;Yigzaw, 2019) that failure in leadership is probably the main cause of the state's failure in DRC. This national failure due to failed leadership is translated through ineffective political leadership, lack of economic development, social crisis, and chronic instability.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Description of the Leadership Experiences of Alumni of the Christian Bilingual University of Congo in the Workplace

Asobee¹,

Gemechu²

2022

OJL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigated the leadership experiences of alumni of the Christian Bilingual University of Congo (UCBC) in the workplace, using a holistic leadership approach as a context, with the aim to learn the nature and challenges of their leadership practices and identify areas of need for leadership development in order to enhance their leadership effectiveness in a challenging work environment. Leadership experiences in the workplace represent both a daily challenge and a developmental opportunity that many leaders face and fail to handle in the current Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous global context. Inaptitude in leadership has been almost always associated with Africa's current miserable and underdevelopment state. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor leadership and mismanagement have been paralyzing the whole nation in the last several decades since independence in 1960. This alarming situation has been translated through ineffective political leadership, lack of economic development, social crisis and chronic instability, corruption, injustice, greed, selfishness, duplicity, pride and many more vices that continue to describe leadership practices at all levels. A qualitative study using phenomenological research design described lived leadership experiences of 13 purposefully selected UCBC alumni in the workplace. Data were collected through one to two hours of in-depth interviews and analyzed through qualitative content analysis procedures. Findings revealed nine major themes that emerged through first-cycle and second-cycle coding processes. The themes were discussed along with literature reviews and recommendations made for contemporary practitioners and future research.

show abstract

Challenges Of Democratization In The Democratic Republic Of Congo (Drc)

Cited by 2 publications

References 0 publications

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Congolese Information Technology Graduates’ Employability: Towards Sustainable Employment

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Congolese Information Technology Graduates’ Employability: Towards Sustainable Employment

Description of the Leadership Experiences of Alumni of the Christian Bilingual University of Congo in the Workplace

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About