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    Human Resource Management Practices in Woreda Education Offices of South West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Dagne Bekele; Befikadu Zeleke (PhD)
    The main purpose of this study was to assess the practices of human resource management adopted by woreda education offices of south west Shoa zone in Oromiya Region of Ethiopia. To accomplish this purpose, the study employed a descriptive survey design. The study was carried out in five woreda education offices and five secondary schools of south west Shoa zone. A total of 292 individuals have participated in the study. Among them 210 were teachers and 41 were woreda education offices experts included as a sample through simple random sampling technique especially lottery method. Additionally 5 woreda education offices heads, 24 secondary school principals, and 12 secondary school supervisors were included through purposive sampling techniques. Questionnaires, interviews and document analysis were the main instruments of data collection. The questionnaire for the study was a three and five point Likert scale type. The questionnaires were administered to collect data from the selected woreda education offices experts and secondary school teachers, which secure a 96.2% response rate. Descriptive and inferential statics analysis were conducted and presented clearly. The questionnaire data were analyzed using the SPSS (statically package for social science) version 20 software. Finally findings of this study revealed that, the woreda education offices did not undertake environmental scanning, skill audit, and systematic recruitment and selection. The main conclusion made here is that employee generally demotivated due to lack of transparency, wrong selection and recruitment practices, lack of human resource planning specialist and skill audit. The study therefore, recommended that the woreda, zone and regional education offices with together should solve the problem that faced in the HRM practices. Key words: Human Resource Management, Personnel Management, Humana Resource Development