Transfer of Entrepreneurship Training to Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises in Tanzania: Rhetoric or Reality for Human Resource Development?

Abstract

The growing importance of entrepreneurship globally has led to an exponentialincrease in the variety of entrepreneurship training programmes. However, there is anobserved lack of standard and consistent interventions, which necessitates assessmentsfundamental to improving contents, objectives and methodologies of effective trainingof enterprise owners as a part of human resource development. Therefore, this studyexamines mainstream and entrepreneurship training evaluations to determinesimilarities and incongruities that affect training applications €”i.e., training transfer €”which is a crucial aspect of training effectiveness. This systematic desk review presentsthe dynamics between prominent transfer evaluation models and entrepreneurshiptraining evaluations. Key findings reveal unavailability of systematic models for theassessment of entrepreneurship training transfer, bias towards results-orientedapproaches to training evaluation, and a distinct lack focus on indicators of creativityand innovativeness in entrepreneurship training evaluation. The study culminateswith a synthesized conceptual framework useful in the research on entrepreneurshiptraining transfer.