Browsing by Author "Sintayehu Hunde"

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    Assessment of the Abuse of Ethiopian Women Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-05) Sintayehu Hunde ; Dechasa Abebe
    Women migrant workers claim a significant component of the labor force in the Arab labor market. Over the past few years, the Plight of migrant workers has been reported in the Gulf due to the persistent exploitation and abuse of their rights. The purpose of this study is to highlight the sources of the predicaments Ethiopian Women migrant workers are facing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These problems include; forced long working hours of up to 20 hours a day; seven days a week, unpaid wages and salaries, physical violence, rape, crime and other forms of exploitation. The international division of labor proposes that the reproduction activities have been progressively commodity in the context of the global market economy. As such our study uses in depth interviews and questionnaires to investigate and enumerate the root causes that contributing the abuse of Ethiopian women migrant workers in Saudi Arabia. The scope of this thesis is limited to women Saudi returnees who are engaged in small scale enterprises through Addis Ababa Bureau of Labor and Social Affairs those returnee workers who use both illegal and legal means of recruitment process through PEAs. In addition, the approach of this study is narrowed down to focusing on abuse, exploitation, trends and practices of migrant workers in the Gulf Countries, particularly in Saudi Arabia. The themes of the result from interviews and questioner are discussed with relevant theoretical explanations provided in the research study
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    The Status and Prospect of Change Management in Engineering Firms in Ethiopia: The Case of Stadia Engineering Works Consultant PLC
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06) Sintayehu Hunde; Bahran Asrat (PhD)
    Companies are in an external environment that is always changing and creating pressure on them. STADIA Engineering Works Consultant Plc is an Ethiopian based company established in 2010 and it is stated that the company has been actively offering a full range of tailored consulting solutions on consultancy services in road and bridge sector. Observing some gaps in human development and due to the current turbulent change factors it became necessary to study the status and prospectus of change management in Stadia so that the prevailing situation is identified, and proper change management design is set in. Accordingly, in order to study the status and prospective of change management in Stadia, descriptive case study was made using questionnaire survey as a data collection instrument. The questionnaire was prepared adopting from Peggy Simonsen (Peggy Simonsen, 1997) works based on Development Culture of Peggy Simonsen, the 5Ps Strategic Change Model and Employee Involvement, EI. It was intended to measure whether the company is in a position to provide an environment to grow/change, whether the work force is properly managed, and whether the workforce is aware of the need to take the initiative for personal change and development. The evaluation criteria established by Peggy Simonsen (Peggy Simonsen, 1997) based on Performance and Development Index is adopted for the assessment. As a means of further verification and consolidation, physical observation of company documents and processes were made and also focus group discussion was made with the top management of the company. Descriptive generalization was made analyzing the data using Excel packages, descriptive statistics, and Cronbach alpha. The analysis results indicated that Stadia Engineering Works Consultant is on the average at a moderate level of rating in its change management and/or organizational development. The company is specifically at super rated range in the areas of organizational system, organizational process and/or information flow but at a relatively weaker level, though still in the moderate range, in relation to human development( inspirational trainings, coaching). It is recommended that Stadia adopt intensive trainings, and research and development.