MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES NEEDED BY FABRICATION AND WELDING ENTERPRISE OWNER MANAGERS FOR OPERATING FABRICATION AND WELDING ENTERPRISES

Abstract

Fabrication and welding enterprise owner managers (FAWEOMs) are supposed to equip themselves with managerial competencies so that they can successfully operate a fabrication and welding enterprise with minimal or no failure. Business failure leads to unemployment with consequences such as hunger, crime, hooliganism restiveness and the like. The needed managerial competencies by fabrication and welding enterprise owner managers that have the potential to guarantee enterprise success have not been empirically identified. To identify these needed managerial competencies, two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were postulated. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test statistic. The study was a survey deign. The population was 74. The population comprised of 23 vocational education teachers and 51 fabrication and welding operator. There was no bases for sampling as the population was relatively small. A researcher made questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. The study identified twenty six (26) management competencies that are needed by FAWEOMs as well as identified eight (8) ways through which FAWEOMs can acquire managerial competencies. Based on the findings of the study, one among the recommendations was that, fabrication and welding enterprise owner managers should acquire managerial competencies in order to guarantee the survival of fabrication and welding enterprises.