Browsing by Author "Bedada Tesfaye"

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    Supply Chain Performance Assessment of Malting Industry: The Case of Soufflet Malt Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06) Bedada Tesfaye; Denu Berhanu
    This research is to assess Supply Chain performance of malting industry in the case of Soufflet Malt Ethiopia. The study used six supply chain performance variables with each variable measured with specific indicators. The six variables are integration and collaboration with key strategic suppliers, supply chain responsiveness, Supply chain reliability, Supply chain Agility, Operational cost, and warehouse management. The total population of the study is 300 and using Stratified random sampling techniques 80 respondents used for this study. Descriptive and Explanatory research design is applied and both qualitative and quantitative data collected from the respondents that are directly involving in malt supply chain. Questionnaire and semi structured interview used to collect data. The quantitative data was analysed by using SPSS for descriptive statistics and qualitative data was used to further explain the finding from quantitative data. The findings of the study show overall Soufflet Malt Ethiopia Supply chain Performance is good in respective to integration with key strategic suppliers, reliability, responsiveness, and Agility. This research also indicate that Soufflet Malt Ethiopia need to work more on cost reduction and warehouse management. Additionally, suppliers are less reliable due to many factors in the ground and further action plan is required to solve this problem in the future. Establishing long term relationship with stakeholders in Malt Barley Supply chain is important. In conclusion, oufflet Malt Ethiopia is strong in SC reliability, responsiveness, and Agility. Discussion and Joint planning with suppliers need to be improved.
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    The Role of Human Resource Management Practices on the Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Case Study of PEACE Microfinance S.C
    (A.A.U., 2023-06-02) Bedada Tesfaye; Hailemariam Gebremichael
    The aim of this paper was to examine the role of human resource management practices on the performance of Microfinance Institutions the case study of PEACE Microfinance S.C. Relevant literature s were reviewed on the subject area and conceptual framework was developed. Explanatory research design was applied and questionnaires were prepared to gather primary data from target respondents. The total population at the time of this research plan was 73 selected judgmentally and all of them were employed using census sampling method. Out of which 72 (98.63%) were collected. The model summary indicated the presence of a significant positive correlation (R=.813) between the independent variables (human resource planning, recruitment & selection, training & development, reward management and compensation, performance appraisal and employee relation) and the dependent variable – organizational performance. Further, the R-squared value of 0.661 indicated that the independent variables accounted for 66.1% of the total variance in organizational performance (dependent variable). In general, the findings of this study revealed that Human Resources Management Practices has a positive effect on Organizational performance. Thus it is recommended that mangers of the company have to give more attention in their managerial function to successful implementation of HRM practices to improve organizational performance.