Effects of Human Resource Development on Employees’ Performance of Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The development of human resource is as important as managing it. This current study examines Effects of Human Resource Development on Employees’ Performance of Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency in Oromia regional state. Correlational design and descriptive survey were adopted in this study. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches employed. Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency was purposively selected out of Oromia Regional State Sectors and from these selected Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency132 total of employees included under the study using census method and the individual respondents stratified into top level management, expertise and supportive staffs used for data collection. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources to achieve the objectives of the study. Data analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression models. The findings revealed that employees’ performance had a moderately significant positive correlation with training and development, refreshment training, employee motivation, working environment and feedback. Employee performance, on the other hand, had a weakly significant positive correlation with induction training and salary. The regression results revealed that employee performance is significantly influenced by training and development, employee motivation, working environment and job design, and feedback. The study concluded that training and development, employee motivation, working environment, job design and feedback should be conducted in accordance with professional practices to increase employees' performance. Therefore, the study recommends that the agency should focus on improving human resource development such as training and development, career development and organizational development to increase employees’ performance.