Performance Management Practices and Challenges in Ethiopia

This book is on assessment of current performance management practices and challenges at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. It employed quantitative descriptive cross-sectional research method. Target population size was 352 staff in Academic Year 2017/2018. A sample of 108 was selected using multi-stage sampling technique. The findings were: the employees of the College did not have good level of performance management per semester. The administrative staff members expressed more or less their agreement than the disagreement on the practice of alignment, performance pre-requisites, performance planning, performance assessment and performance management review. Moreover, the respondents somehow agreed with issues on the practice of performance renewal and re-constructing. Conversely, the staff agreed on those performance management effectiveness aspects in the College. It concludes that there are good and promising practices of the performance management aspects. But these change management interventions are surrounded by certain challenges which have emanated from low level of awareness of performance management and related issues and difficulty in monitoring and evaluation framework.