Factors Affecting the Adoption of E-Learning in UNECA

The adoption of e-Learning is found to be important to enhance employee performance of organizations. The study analyzes factors enabling and hindering the adoption of e-Learning in the UNECA. The study identifies enabling and inhibiting factors that affected the adoption of e-Learning on one hand and its possible impact on performance of employees in the UNECA on the other hand. Survey, secondary research and qualitative interview results are expected to empirically show that technological readiness, self-efficacy of employees and experience in the use of computer, internet and information technology are inhibiting factors in the UNECA context. The need for satisfying the growing stakeholders' demand and the desire to minimize cost but yet to enhancing service delivery of the organization are the driving factors. The study argues for the importance of e-Learning and concludes e-Learning is essential for the improvement of service delivery in the UNECA. Based on the driving and inhibiting factors identified, the study looks into employee readiness that is expected to facilitate the adoption of e-Learning with its possible impact on the development of employee performance in the UNECA