environmental sustainability building

Introduction: Early sexual debut has become an emerging global concern, and adolescents who begin early sexual activity are less likely to use condoms and more likely to have multiple partners and early child bearing which intern brings about higher rates of maternal and child morbidity and mortality. Higher rates of unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections among adolescents make it fundamental to understand factors associated with early sexual initiation ...

This study aimed to assess the roles of motivation on the performance of Africa Humanitarian Action employees. The study adopted the quantitative research design and the descriptive survey method to provide answers to research questions. A census was conducted to select the target group of 135. The study employed the use of self-administered questionnaire to collect the required primary data. Statistical Program of Social Scientists (SPSS) version 20 was used. On top, descriptive statistical ...

Background: -Fasting, the voluntary abstention from all restricted foods, is a feature of many religions, and the putative health benefits have attracted both scientific and popular interest. There is clear understanding that religious fasting has great effects on metabolic syndrome. There are no available literatures that give information concerning Ethiopian Orthodox Christians fasting influence on metabolic syndrome indices and serum electrolytes to date. Objective: -To determine effect o...

Introduction: Fluoroquinolones are a group of antimicrobials which are widely used globally and thus microorganisms becoming resistant to them. As there is limited current data on specific microorganisms’ resistance to fluoroquinolones in Ethiopia; this study aimed to generate information on the bacterial resistance against fluoroquinolones. Objective: To assess the bacterial resistance trend to fluoroquinolone among patients’ specimens analyzed at International Clinical Laboratories and con...

The study examined the influence of job satisfaction on organizational commitment of employees in Ethiopian Management Institute. The data was collected through self administered questionnaire from 162 respondents. The instruments used for data collection were Meyer, Allen, and Smith (1993) 18 item revised version of the three component organizational commitment questionnaire and Spector(1985) job satisfaction survey(JSS)tool. Spearman’s Rank Correlation Statistical tool and linear regre...

Background: Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), in collaboration of Federal Ministry of Education (FMOE) and other partners, has developed strategies to address health workforce challenges by introducing the Medical Education Initiatives (MEI).The new medical education curriculum adopts alternative teaching and learning strategies that helps student to become self directed learners and guidance in clinical decision making process. Learning in problem based learning (PBL) schools, i...

Background: The level of satisfaction of patients about the health services can be considered an important tool of quality of services. Nursing care is a major component of the health services because it is one of the determinants of quality of health services. Patient’s satisfaction with the care they receive from health care providers has become one of the most important approaches to the measurement of the quality of care in recent times as against the predominantly clinical and admin...

The purpose of this study is to assess The Role of Performance Management Practice on Employee Productivity in East Africa Bottling Share Company (EABSC). The study was guided by four research questions which seek to answers whether the existing performance management practice of the company affects employee productivity or not. The study adopted an explanatory research design. Out of 411 target population a sample size of 203 was taken using Taro Yemani’s statistical formula and responses of...

The main objective of the study is to examine the effect of reward on employee motivation in International Rescue Committee (IRC), Ethiopia Program. A mixed research approach was employed to answer the research questions. The quantitative data was gathered using survey questionnaire and a total of 163 respondents completed the survey questionnaires. To triangulate findings and to better generalize the findings of the quantitative data, interview was conducted with the Human Resource and Admin...

The study was designed with a general objective of examining the effect of compensation practices (focusing on salary, benefit, career growth opportunity, supervisor support and non-financial recognition practice) on professional employees’ turnover intention. It was conducted in an organization called GOAL Ethiopia. The research design is descriptive in its nature and qualitative and quantitative data was collected as a primary and secondary data resources. Questionnaires were distributed to...

Motivation is stated as one of the most important contributor for high performance in a company. Organizations design motivation systems to encourage employees to perform in the most effective way. The key to create efficient motivation system is an answer to the question what really motivate employees. The general objective of this research is to study the impact of Ethio telecom motivational packages on employees’ performance in Ethio Telecom Customer Services Division.Thedescriptive resear...

The United Nation World Food Program (UN-WFP) implements P4P (Purchase for Progress) program in Ethiopia since 2010. The program mainly procures White Maize from different Farmers Cooperative Unions (FCUs). But, the total average Maize price of those smallholder farmers found a 2% to 11% higher than the price of a MT of Maize from traders. As a result, the WFP divert much of its purchase to traders even if its corporate strategy aimed to save 10% from total purchase value through buying 10% o...

The research objective was to assess the impact of EEU inventory management practices on service delivery. The study was a descriptive research design. The target populations for the study were employees working at head office and 3 regions in Addis Ababa. Simple random sampling techniques were applied to select a sample size of 110 employees from both managerial and non managerial positions. 97 employees (88.18%) response rate was obtained. Primary data was mainly collected using self- admin...

Performance Appraisal is one of the key important factor which is practice by human resource management of every successful organization. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of performance appraisal on employees’ job-satisfaction in the case of CBE. Currently in CBE most of employees not satisfied by the performance appriasal practice. They informally complains bias of the raters, lack of continuous communication, lack of trust in the supervisor, lack of clear performance e...

The value of human resource is an advantage to any organization and as a result training and development become a matter that has to be confronted by every organization. The practice of training in any organization is continuous process to refining the ability of employees. It is an effort to improve their performance, it is also an attempt made by the employer to provide opportunity for the employee to obtain enhanced job interrelated knowledge, skill and abilities. Therefore, the objective ...

Human resource is the most important resources in the organization. Making an effort to retain skilled and efficient workforce is very essential for the achievement of the given objective. However, the issue of employee turnover exists in most of the organization throughout the world. To prevent an excessive employee turnover rate, an organization has to set an effective retention mechanism. Among a blend of employee retention mechanisms, reward management is the one which has a great impact ...

This research was about performance appraisal system and their effect on employees’ work performance satisfaction. The major purpose of the research was investigated the effect of performance appraisal system on employees’ work performance of NTE share company employees and also their reactions towards the overall performance appraisal system depends on the distinctiveness, consistency, and consensus as well as its major factors such as fairness, employee-manager relationship, rewards li...

The study was conducted to analyze coffee value chain in Gedio Zone Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union (YCFCU). Yirgacheffe coffee is definitely among the most distinguished coffee varieties grown in Southern Ethiopia, a region known for its fine coffees. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the coffee value chain in YCFCU, to examine the relationship between actors and assess their linkage, to indicate each actor role in the value creation activities and to explai...