An Assesment Of Human Resource Manegement Practices Of Selected Public Office, In Case Of Hababo Guduru District, Horro Guduru Wallaga Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

Human resource management processes are a way of attracting, motivating, and keeping people in order to maintain the organization's environmental sustainability. The study aimed at assessing human resource management practices in Hababo Guduru district, with due emphasis on practices of recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, training and development, and compensation. The study adopted descriptive-type research. Data collection was carried out using structured questionnaires, mainly using 5-point Likert scale items. A systematic random sampling technique was used with 125 participants taken from 201 employees of the offices, and the data were presented in the form of tables employing the use of frequency distribution, percentages, mean, and standard deviation analyzed using descriptive statistics by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software. The findings of the study showed that there were different problems identified in each practice of human resource management, like recruitment and selection mechanisms that are not based on properly established job descriptions for a position. The top-level management does not pay attention to the training program for employees. The performance appraisal system does not make employees happy by the results of appraising their performance, and reward management is not linked to employee performance in offices. These practices were poorly perceived by their employees as helping their performance. The researcher concluded that the practices of human resource management in the organization under study had been implemented with various problems in their processes. The study recommended that the organization need to reconsider how it uses it human resource management practices to address identified problems and improve organizational achievements