Factor Affecting Employees Performance in Public Service Sectors in Case of Dano District, West Shoa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine factors affecting employees’ performance in the case of Dano District Public Service Sectors. Data was gathered from seven public service sectors in Dano District. The research is quantitative research approach. Primary data was collected using respondents with N=154, the respondents were selected using cluster (Administration cluster, Development cluster and social cluster) sampling technique and from each sectors selects lottery system and analysis. The independent variables are leadership, working environment, training and monitoring and evaluation whereas the dependent variable is employees’ performance. The data analysis was on descriptive and inferential statistics and further by use of regression model run on Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 27. The primary data gathered in the form of questionnaires with a Likert typed-scale were then analyzed using the multiple regression method. The correlation result indicated that there were positive relationship between all of independent variables and the dependent variable. This implies that any increase or decrease on the independent variable will bring corresponding change on employees’ performance. And it’s found that the independent variables has an 82.8% influence on the dependent variable while the remaining 17.2% is influenced by factors which are not covered in this study. Therefore, the public service sectors should periodically review by district public service and human resource development office on the practice of leadership, working environment, training and monitoring and evaluation in order to improve the limitation and to identify its effectiveness on employees’ job performance.