Browsing by Author "Belay Demissie"

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    Assessment of Practices and Challenges of Project Time and Cost Management: a case study of Bishoftu City Infrastructure Construction Projects
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Belay Demissie; Solomon Markos (PhD)
    Time and cost have its proven importance as the prime factor for infrastructure construction project success. This study assessed the practices and challenges of infrastructure construction projects time and cost management focusing on infrastructures construction projects of Bishoftu city. The objective of this study was to assess the practices and challenges of time and cost management of infrastructure projects forwarding proper remedial solutions. Descriptive types of research design with both quantitative and qualitative data type were used to assess the practices and bring out the challenges to the front for future recommendations. Data collected using questionnaires and interview for primary data source and document review for secondary data source were used to collect information and have been analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Interpretations have been done based on the common points and conceptualizing and explaining issues interrelated to one another in the themes. The analysis was mainly descriptive and the information collected from both primary and secondary sources were processed with the help of Microsoft excel and the analyzed data were presented using tables, chart, and percentage. The study strongly assessed the practices and challenges of time and cost management for infrastructure construction projects. There are poor practices of application of project management strategy and techniques for initiation, planning, execution controlling and closing for both project time and cost management in the city. Projects are delaying from 2 % - 137 % and cost overrun of these projects are from 17 % - 152 %. There was no sufficient communication among the stakeholders. Project scopes were not adequately defined. Contingency plans were not properly included in the project plans and the project plans were not detailed to the extent understandable by all the stakeholders. The study recommended that the city should use proper project management tools and techniques for planning, execution and control. Involvement of all concerned stakeholders during project planning and implementation will help the city to overcome the challenges
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    Instructional Leadership Effectiveness of Governmental Secondary School Principal in Akaki Kality Sub-City
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Belay Demissie; Teshome Tola
    The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of instructional leadership effectiveness and to investigate some of the factors that affect its provision in secondary school of Akaki Kality’s sub city. Leader’s engagement in defining mission, managing curriculum and instruction, supervising instruction, monitoring student progress, promoting school learning climate were used as indicators to assess instructional leadership effectiveness. The context in which instructional leadership is held such as, personal characteristics, organization characteristics and district/zone administrative characteristics were treated as influencing factors./ the study was conducted in 2 secondary schools selected from 5 by using purposive 8 school leaders, and 56 teachers were used as the subjects of the study to obtain the necessary data. Questionnaire, unstructured interview and focus group discussion were the instruments used for data collection. The data collected through the questionnaire were analyzed using percentage and data obtained through interview and focus group discussion were analyzed qualitatively through descriptive narration or theoretical presentation for the purpose of triangulation. Findings from the data analysis revealed that most school leaders are not effective neither in each dimension nor in their overall instructional leadership role. Of the personal characteristics treated, only experience as department and unit leader as a leader and number of organizational characteristics, availability of instructional resource.In general School principals of Akaki kaliy sub-city are ineffective in many counts (supervisory support, professional support, community relation, curriculum development and etc…) to facilitate teaching and learning. This also showed that since principals’ effort to facilitate teaching and learning was low in many counts, learners are not effectively learning and teachers are not effectively teaching to improve the student achievement and the school as whole. Addis Ababa city administration education Bureau in collaboration with Woreda education office and sub city should define the instructional leadership roles of leaders clearly in terms of the five dimensions, provide trainings in the area revise and improve the selection and appointment criteria of leadership positions reduce and improve the organizational and district factors debilitating instructional leadership role of the leader.