Business Reporter
Zimbabwe will need to train more business leaders in order for the country to effectively implement and realise targets in the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation, an academia said.
Bindura University of Science Education Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Eddie Mwenje made the remarks during a presentation last week on the ongoing reorientation of the university’s masters of business leadership degree.

He said the reorientation would result in the degree programme putting emphasis on human capital development with particular emphasis on leadership. The degree is offered over a two year period on block release.

It is the only such programme in Zimbabwe, as other universities offer masters of business administration degrees, and targets people in leadership positions. Twenty students are already enrolled while more will enroll soon.

Prof Mwenje said good leadership was key for Zim-Asset success considering the fact that “everything rose and fell on the quality of leadership” while human capital limitations behind most failure of most institutions.

He said the MBL was part of BUSE’s contribution to the Zim Asset, and dovetailed into targets set in the policy’s human capital development cluster. Zim Asset will guide Government’s development progarammes until 2018.

Prof Mwenje said leaders where the major difference between the success and failure of organization or institutions hence the need to train leaders and not just managers to fill in vacuums created by skills flight.

“The main issue is that we want to be able to capacitate leaders in terms of decision making, vision and also in building teams for us to succeed in these difficult time we need (to work as a) team,” Prof Mwenje said.

Prof. Mwenje said in even if the Zim-Asset programme was to receive huge funding support, it would not bear the intended results without good leadership skills within business organizations and related institutions.

“We want the students to zero in on issues of how we can revive the economy so that our companies start to produce again,” he said. He said in the past economic research dwelt on issues irrelevant to local problems.

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