Browsing by Author "Abebaw Bekele"

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    Assessment of Project Team Work During COVID-19: The Case of Eka Kotebe General Hospital
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-10) Abebaw Bekele; Bahran Asrat (PhD)
    Teams operating in high-risk fields have distinct, often covert, characteristics influenced by the nature of their task, their hazardous and unforgiving operating environments, and the ambiguous ways in which clues to a crisis often emerge. Health care teams are among the high-risk operating teams, especially in the time of pandemics, like COVID-19. An explanative research design, with mixed approach was used in this study. The study area was Eka Kotebe General Hospital and COVID-19 frontline health professionals were used as study population. Adopted data collection tools on collective leadership, work engagement, psychological safety and organizational citizenship behavior were used to collect the quantitative data. Key informants were interviewed on the changes during the pandemic, as the qualitative part. This study included 242 participants, among which 60.7% of them were males. The mean age of participants with SD was 30.2 years. The healthcare professionals demonstrate effective planning, problem-solving, and support within their teams, though proactive problem identification could be enhanced. Work engagement was positive, with a need to improve perceptions of physical vitality. Psychological safety was high, except for speaking up about colleagues' mistakes. Overall, employees exhibit positive Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and collective leadership. Regression analysis reveals work engagement, and psychological safety as influencing factors on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Collective Leadership. Encouraging psychological safety, work engagement, and addressing specific areas for growth can enhance team dynamics, organizational citizenship behavior and collective leadership. Additionally, qualitative findings highlight positive changes during the COVID-19 response and the potential for sustainability with proper support. For the future, conducting longitudinal studies to track the evolution of teamwork dynamics during extended crisis situations is recommended
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    Documentation of Some Peculiar Cultural Features of Traditional Poetry School; The Case of Debre Meheret Abun-bet St. Gabreal Monastery Qene School, Gonderer
    (Addis Ababa University, 2010-06) Abebaw Bekele ; Sirgiw Gelaw
    This study was designed for the documentation purpose on the cultural practices of the anicient traditional church school. For this purpose one of the Qene school in Gondar, Debre Mehiret Abund Bet Seint Gebrel Monstry Qene school was selected based on some important considerations like: the number of students, background of the students, the facility of the school and the duration of the school. Interview based questions check lists, focus group discussion content analysis and participation observation were the method used to collect the necessary data. Interview based questions were given to 10 interviewers (students, teachers and other respondents), focus group discussion were made among the students audio recorder photo and video cameras were also used. All the methods were focused on the cultural elements of the school, to find out the most common cultural practices in the school, the actual condition of these practices and some problems that the students and the teachers faced with. Thus based on the collected data, the Housing Culture, the Clothing Culture, the Students relationship, Conflict and its resolution, the Teaching Learning and the Culture of Searching for food, are discussed in the paper. The study also find out the change in the above practices, though, the extent of the change varies. Except the Housing Culture which remains more or less unchanged, the other practices are highly changed, and economic problem is the serious one and it brings the change in the school’s practices. Due to the change in the traditional way of searching for food i.e., Begging, the other practices are also becoming changed. And the study made some possible recommendations aimed at supporting the school. So as to make the school more functional as it was previously.