Browsing by Author "Abebe, Rahel"

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    An Assessment Of Project Managers’ Competency In Teklebrhan Ambaye Construction Plc
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06-25) Abebe, Rahel; Bekalu, Wubshet (PhD)
    The purpose of this research is to assess the competency of project managers in Tekleberhan Ambaye Construction. This study was conducted on Tekleberhan Ambaye Construction selected Addis Ababa sites. The research purposefully takes the whole population which only found in projects in Addis Ababa. Both primary and secondary data are collected to achieve the intended research objectives. Data collected using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Specifically questioners, semi-structured interviews to key informants and document analysis were employed as instruments of data collection. The respondents were all project managers and site engineers which have the capability to manage a project. Questionnaires were distributed to all project sites for 12 employees. The data were analyzed using SPSS and interpreted in percentage. The findings of this study revealed that: all project managers have a good competency skills and have the knowledge about what is the company expect from them. Also the organizations give different types of training for the development of human and technical skills. The research findings shows that there is no time centered training for its employees, no induction training for new employees as well as the company mostly focused on the technical skill trainings. The findings also support among different types of project competency aspects and under their roles the employees have a good competency skill and have great knowledge about it
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    Evaluation of the Transportation System for Disables Versus Policy Implementation in Addis Ababa City
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-05) Abebe, Rahel; Teklu, Bikila (PhD)
    The purpose of this study is to evaluate the transport system for disables’ regarding related policy implementation in Addis Ababa City. The paper has administrative, policy and academic significances. This research covers spatially those organizations working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian National Association of the Blind, the Ethiopian National Association of the Physically Handicapped and the Ethiopian National Association of the Deaf. Thematically the research limited to the evaluation of the road transport system for the people with disabilities against the related policy implementation. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used and descriptive research method. These Participants of the research were selected randomly using small population size sampling method, and from the selected sample first hand data collected through questionnaires, semi-structured interview, focus group discussion and observation. Secondary data were collected from published and unpublished, hard and soft copy documents. After collecting primary and secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods were used to analyze the data and presented in tables, figures and in text forms. The researcher found and concluded that the transport system for disabled people in Ethiopia is inaccessible and the causes for inaccessibility are lack of infrastructure provision, environmental barrier, non-existent Law enforcement and lack of public awareness, poor design of flow entities or public transport, are identified as causes for transportation system problem for disabled people. Moreover, Addis Ababa transport policy has limited emphasis for disable and the policy is not implemented. Finally, the researchers recommend that infrastructure should be accessible, the vehicle design should be accommodative and the government should implement the international agreements related with disables. More over the policy should be revised and participatory. Key words: Transport, Policy, Disables, People with Disable