Browsing by Author "Abraham Yilma"

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    Assesment of Strategic Public Reltions Practice: The Case of Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (Ethiopian Ata)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2019-11) Abraham Yilma ; Ton Veen
    The purpose of this study is to assess the strategic public relations practice of Agricultural Transformation Agency/ATA. ATA is founded to accelerate the Growth and Transformation Plan of Ethiopia. ATA envision that smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability in contributing to Ethiopia‘s achievement of middle-income country status. The role of communication/Public relations department is to lead the development and successful implementation of the communication strategy to reflect external engagement, internal communication and promoting the institution as well. The student researcher targets to assess the strategic role and practice of public relations in Agricultural Transformation Agency. The researcher basically asks the role and practice of Communication department in ATA, the nature of organizational strategic communication plan, internal and external communication plan and driving public relations methods and theories in the public relation / communication department. This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to access relevant data‘s for the research. In-depth interviews, document analysis, web analysis, questionnaires were the research instruments that haven been used for this study. The collected data organized thematically and according to the research questions, but some data‘s are interpreted without following the research question structure. This study has intensely indicates role and practice of public relations, basic gaps, issues regarding to the nature of organizational structure and theories and models of public relations. It gives some critical recommendations and professional concepts that would help the agency to improvise its public relations practice.
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    Assignment of Internal Auditors to other Fields of Job and its Implications on Internal Audit function: The Case of Oromiya Semen Shewa Finance and Economic Cooperation Offices’
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-01) Abraham Yilma; Sewale Abate
    To assure that the budget and resources obtained are used for the purpose of public sector offices, internal auditing has paramount importance to give quality audit tasks and strengthen the anticipation that the Finance and Economic Cooperation Offices and public servants will perform their functions effectively, efficiently, ethically by following and introduce with applicable laws and regulations promulgated by the government. There has been a practice of assigning auditors to other fields of job in Oromiya Semen Shoa Finance and Economic Cooperation Offices. Thus, the general objective of this study is to investigate the main impacts of assigning internal auditors to other fields of job on internal audit functions and, on the strength of IA. The study examined, the impact of assigning internal auditors to other fields of job as to the existence of competent and experienced internal auditors, and its impact on strengthening internal audit in the FEC Offices, whether the management has taken immediate action to fulfill vacant IA place by qualified/experienced auditors on behalf of those auditors who has been assigned to other fields of job. The study Investigated also the impact of assigning internal auditors to other fields of job on internal audit functions, whether the management has practiced job rotation for internal auditors of Finance and Economic co-operate offices to enhance auditors competency and strengthen internal audit. In the Finance and Economic Cooperation offices of the Oromiya Semen Shawa region, internal auditors are simply assigned by management to other fields of job, the management has not taken immediate actions to fill vacant IA places by experienced and qualified auditors, the newly assigned auditors have insufficient knowledge of audit standards and all skills of audit tasks. As a result, the internal audit of the offices is not strong and quality audit tasks have not been performed.