African SMEs’ Performance and Behaviors during COVID-19

the statement, indicating that it is not a threat for female coworkers to be replaced by male co-workers.

Figure 3.39: “Thinking about it, I am more inclined to having male employees in my company’s team”

Training & Development

In this section we try to uncover whether training and development took priority during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and what were their underlying characteristics. First, we see whether staf training, and development came as a priority during the pandemic. Our survey results show that for most African SME “During the COVID-19 outbreak, I thought it best to orient the staf towards training that would enhance their skills and capacities”

Figure 3.40: “During the COVID-19 outbreak, I thought it best to orient the staf towards training that would enhance their skills and capacities”

This is true for 69,2% of our surveyed population. 146 of our respondents (65,2%) answered yes to “During the COVID-19 outbreak, I was able to train and develop my staf” as shown in the chart below.

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