Browsing by Author "Getachew, Tsion"

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    Assessment of Affordability and Living Condition of Condominium Housing in Addis Ababa: The Case of Lideta Sub city in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-05) Getachew, Tsion; Legass, Asmamaw (PhD)
    This thesis attempt to explore the affordability and living condition of condominium housing in Addis Ababa. Among other condominium sites Lideta condominium site was chosen purposively. The researcher used mixing qualitative and quantitative methods and used primary and secondary data sources. To select the target population a researcher used simple random sampling technique and the required information collected from one hundred fifty one households living in studio and one bed room. The data generated to meet these objectives were collected via household survey, in-depth interviews, focused group discussion, personal observation, and by reviewing different secondary documents. The finding shows that, due to increasing the price of condominium houses, the less purchasing power of the urban poor can’t afford it. On the contrary, the middle and higher income dwellers are living in the condominium houses. Further the researcher find out whether they are middle and higher income dwellers but it is difficult to pay the down payment as well as the installment too. The result shows that, in the study area access of water supply, open space, size of the rooms and domestic noise are consider as the main challenges. While access of services, housing quality and creation of job opportunities for the youth are some examples of opportunities in the study area. In line with, the finding reveals that the housing development program has some difficulty to achieve its objectives toward making the urban poor to be a house owner with affordable price. The study mainly suggest that, such measures alleviate the difficulty of affordability and living condition: by creating a massive job opportunity and income generating systems for the urban poor’s to improve their financial capacity. Giving continuous capacity building programs to encourage the saving culture of the society. In addition minimize the shortage of water supply and also the government should work hard to achieve its objectives by delivering the affordable houses for the urban poor’s considering with their financial capacity. Key words: Lideta, Affordability, condominium, low income, housing, living condition
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    Challenges and prospects of Balanced Scorecard Implementation in the Development Bank of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Getachew, Tsion; Abagisa, Jemal (PhD)
    BSC is one of the management tools that help an organization to achieve its vision by aligning the organization’s strategic goals to every employee’s activity. As one of governmental financial institutions, DBE has implemented BSC in 2010. While implementing BSC, the Bank has faced a number of challenges. This study focused on investigating the challenges and prospects that DBE faces in general and the credit process in particular. To collect data interview and questionnaire have been used and the method used is descriptive method. The questionnaires are prepared for 51 credit process employees and 110 bank’s credit customers. The interview is for the top management official of the bank who works in credit area and support credit area. Out of the administered questionnaire, only 23 employees and 50 customers managed to return. The results that come out of the questionnaires and interview is analyzed using descriptive method of analysis and presented in the form of tables and graphs. The finding shows that the major challenges that DBE faces is emanated from lack of commitment of top management officials , lack of understanding of the tool, early cascading and considering the tool more as a tool of measurement rather than a tool for strategic management. However; the tool is also helps the organization by increasing the organization performance, by communicating the organization mission, vision and strategic objective to employees, by creating team spirit and others. So to avoid the challenges it is recommended that the Bank should give training about the tool, the Bank should define the measurements, and after being sure that the metrics measure the activities of the business units and the selected measure is easily quantifiable then attaching it with benefits will be wise in order to achieve what is set in the future