Browsing by Author "Ejigu, Abraham"

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    Assessment of Project Management Maturity Level of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Ejigu, Abraham; Mohammed, Abdurezak (PhD)
    In today’s dynamic and complex business environment, organizations find themselves in a need to manage projects whether they are project driven or non-project driven organizations. However the practice of project management has to be improved to realize its benefits. The main purpose of this research project was to assess the project management maturity level of PMO of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. The maturity assessment was based on a five level project management maturity model devised by PM Solutions. To assess the project management practice of the projects, nine knowledge areas were selected from the project management body of knowledge guide. The research employed both qualitative and quantitative research methods to realize the purpose of the study. Hence, a questionnaire was devised based on reviewed literature to assess the practice of the knowledge areas. The collected data was triangulated with data obtained from other secondary sources and analyzed. Based on the analysis, the researcher concluded that most of the knowledge areas were being practiced informally. The knowledge areas also have lower maturity levels. Relatively some of the knowledge areas have higher maturity as compared to the others. This difference was traced back to already established processes and practices the bank uses in its operations. But lack of proper integration of these practices with project management practice has lowered the maturity level of the project management practice at the bank. Developing and practicing project management knowledge areas; devising procedures; carefully collecting, compiling and disseminating lessons learned from past project implementation; creating project management standards; and creating awareness among all stakeholders towards projects; strengthening the PMO’s human and other resources; and providing trainings have been recommended as a means of improving project management practice and attaining higher maturity
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    The Relationship between Press Freedom and Human Development: Evidence of East African Countries
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-12) Ejigu, Abraham; Gebru, Amanuel (PhD)
    This study attempted to establish a nexus between the three dimensions of press freedom (Economic, political and legal environment) and human development taking five year data from Six eastern African countries. Both Correlation and multiple regression panel linear regression analysis methods were employed. Preliminary tests of statistical assumptions were conducted to determine the use of data appropriate methods. The results indicate that consistently with the extant literature both political and economic dimensions of press freedom are important predictors of human development. However the legal environment failed to qualify as explanatory variable. Similarly qualitative analysis was also conducted through in depth interview with key informants of Ethiopian media practitioners who were picked up purposively and similar results were obtained which reinforce the output of the econometric analysis except deviation on the variable of legal environment. Recommendations for further research are presented based on the limitations noted. Keywords: press freedom, economic environment, political environment, legal environment human development.