Browsing by Author "Hassen Seid"

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    The Effect of Total Rewards on Employee Engagement: the Moderating Role of Perceived Reward Fairness (Empirical Evidence from private Banks in Ethiopia)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2019-06) Hassen Seid; Lakew Alemu
    With the reported downward spiral of engagement levels worldwide, and many Research indicating that employees are no longer satisfied with traditional reward systems, organizations are becoming aware that in order to deal with this, attract best talent and keep them engaged, they need to shift their attention to total reward strategies. The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between total rewards and work engagement in Ethiopian context and to determine which reward categories significantly predict employee engagement. The study further endeavored to determine whether perceived reward fairness had a moderating effect on the relationship between total rewards and employee engagement. A quantitative, cross-sectional research design was adopted. By dividing the total population in to strata and then by using a non-probability convenience and purposive sampling strategy, 315 questionnaires were collected and analyzed from two randomly selected private banks in Addis Ababa. The 17-item UWES, WorldatWork total reward model and 18 item questioner to test perception of fairness developed by Moorman (1990) were chosen as measuring instruments. Evidence from the study suggested that three total reward dimensions explained 37.5% of the variance in employee engagement. From the study it was found that Intrinsic rewards had the biggest significant effect on employee engagement. Similarly, Work life balance also had a significant effect on employee engagement .unlike the two Extrinsic rewards was found to negatively affect employee engagement. In addition, results from the study inferred that perceived fairness moderated the relationship between total rewards and employee engagement. Evidences from the study suggested that Total Rewards and perception of fairness are important engagement factors for employees in the workplace. unlike the other two subscales, Extrinsic rewards had negatively affected employee engagement implying that more research is needed and Organizations seeking to implement total reward strategies should pay attention to which reward categories have a positive impact on employee engagement.
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    The Effects of Government Expenditure and Tax on Economic Growth in Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-07) Bargicho Seida; Hassen Seid
    This study is under taken to analyze the effect of government expenditure and tax on economic growth in Ethiopia. The objective of the study is examining which components of government expenditure and tax compositions stimulate the economy and which of them do not both in the short run and in the long run. In the descriptive part of the analysis the researcher found that the trend of both government expenditure and tax has been growing throughout the year under consideration at real term. The current government disperses the largest part of its total expenditure in the form of capital expenditure as opposed to the Derg regime where the largest part of the expenditure was distributed in the form of recurrent expenditure. From the revenue side both the Derg and EPRDF governments on average collected a larger part of their tax revenue in the form of indirect taxes. However, during the Derg regime out of the total indirect taxes domestic indirect taxes constituted the largest share and followed by import duties and taxes while the reverse is true for the current government. In the econometric analysis Co-integrated Vector Error Correction approach is applied for the identification of which components of government expenditure and tax compositions have significant effect on the Ethiopian economy, based on the Ethiopian data from the sample period of 1980/81 to 2013/14. The estimation results indicate that, in the long run current expenditure and direct taxes have negative and significant effect on the real GDP. However capital expenditure and indirect taxes have positive and significant effect on the real GDP. On the other hand, in the short run, government current expenditure, government capital expenditure and direct taxes do not have any significant meaning in explaining economic growth, whereas indirect taxes have positive and significant effect on the short run real GDP of the Ethiopian economy.