Volume 74, Issue 1, August 2024, Pages 11–29
Kigen Cheruyot Vincent1, Patrick Kasyula2, Beatrice Warue3, and Caleb Odhiambo Onjure4
1 Master of Public Policy and Administration Student, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
2 Lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
3 Lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
4 Lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
Original language: English
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Nearly 200 million people live in countries they are not citizens by birth. This is fueled by insecurity and human right violations, poverty and environmental degradation, economic disparities and absence of peace. Due to increased selective and varied migration policies, there is demand for migrants who are able to respond better to labour market needs and able to integrate easily with communities. This necessitates a need for training that improves worker competency and strengthens their capacity to deliver better services, which leads to continuing growth and development of the institutions they will be serving. The study sought to examine the effect of labour migration pre-departure training programs on the performance of Kenyan migrant workers’ in UAE. Specifically the study was to establish the effect of cultural awareness training, language proficiency training, legal awareness training, and job specific skills training on migrant workers’ performance. The study was anchored on Migration Systems Theory, Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory, the Human Capital theory and the Role theory. This study employed a descriptive research design. The target population was 60,626 migrant workers in UAE and the sample size was 384 respondents. The study findings showed that pre-departure training programs of (cultural awareness, language proficiency, legal awareness and job specific skills training) have a significant and positive influence at (P value = 0.000) on performance of Kenyan migrant workers’ in UAE thus improving their probabilities of enhanced results. The study recommends the policy makers to strategically put emphasis on the four pre-departure training programs (cultural awareness, language proficiency, legal awareness and job specific skills training) to further enhance performance of Kenyan migrant workers in the host countries.
Author Keywords: cultural awareness, employee performance, job specific skills, labour migration, language proficiency, migrant worker, pre-departure training.
Kigen Cheruyot Vincent1, Patrick Kasyula2, Beatrice Warue3, and Caleb Odhiambo Onjure4
1 Master of Public Policy and Administration Student, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
2 Lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
3 Lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
4 Lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Africa International University, Kenya
Original language: English
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Nearly 200 million people live in countries they are not citizens by birth. This is fueled by insecurity and human right violations, poverty and environmental degradation, economic disparities and absence of peace. Due to increased selective and varied migration policies, there is demand for migrants who are able to respond better to labour market needs and able to integrate easily with communities. This necessitates a need for training that improves worker competency and strengthens their capacity to deliver better services, which leads to continuing growth and development of the institutions they will be serving. The study sought to examine the effect of labour migration pre-departure training programs on the performance of Kenyan migrant workers’ in UAE. Specifically the study was to establish the effect of cultural awareness training, language proficiency training, legal awareness training, and job specific skills training on migrant workers’ performance. The study was anchored on Migration Systems Theory, Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory, the Human Capital theory and the Role theory. This study employed a descriptive research design. The target population was 60,626 migrant workers in UAE and the sample size was 384 respondents. The study findings showed that pre-departure training programs of (cultural awareness, language proficiency, legal awareness and job specific skills training) have a significant and positive influence at (P value = 0.000) on performance of Kenyan migrant workers’ in UAE thus improving their probabilities of enhanced results. The study recommends the policy makers to strategically put emphasis on the four pre-departure training programs (cultural awareness, language proficiency, legal awareness and job specific skills training) to further enhance performance of Kenyan migrant workers in the host countries.
Author Keywords: cultural awareness, employee performance, job specific skills, labour migration, language proficiency, migrant worker, pre-departure training.
How to Cite this Article
Kigen Cheruyot Vincent, Patrick Kasyula, Beatrice Warue, and Caleb Odhiambo Onjure, “The effect of labour migration pre-departure training on performance of migrant workers: A case of Kenyan workers in United Arab Emirates,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 11–29, August 2024.
