Browsing by Author "Tesfaye, Samson"

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    Assessment of Acceptability of provider Initiated HIV Counseling and Testing among Tuberculosis Patients on DOTS in Selected areas in Gamo Gofa Zone, SNNPR
    (Addis Abeba Universty, 2009-07) Tesfaye, Samson; Enquoselassie, Fikre (PhD)
    Background: HIV counseling and testing is fundamental to both HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Patients need to know their sero-status to benefit from available care and treatment options. Therefore, multi-focused counseling and testing strategies need to be instituted in order to reach risk groups. Provider Initiated HIV Counseling and Testing (PIHCT) is getting implemented in most facilities utilizing Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) to increase uptake of HCT as most the important opportunity. Different factors might affect PIHCT service uptake which demand timely assessment. Objective: To assess acceptability of PIHCT and factors influencing its uptake among tuberculosis patients in selected areas in Gamo Gofa zone. Methods: Institution-based, cross-sectional study was conducted from January to April 2009, on 440 patients attending Tuberculosis clinics from four weredas in Gamo Gofa zone. Study site were selected based on their annual TB case load and evidence of HCT service presence. Regression model was used to assess factors associated with acceptability of PIHCT. Results: 373 (84.8%) patients were initiated for HIV counseling and testing by their TB treatment supervisor and of these 336 (89.8%) had under gone HIV testing and the overall acceptability was found to be 76.4%. knowledge and attitude variables like willingness to disclose status of TB to others (AOR= 3.9; 95% CI= 1.9-8.2), believing healthy looking person could be infected with HIV (AOR 8.8, 95%CI=2.5-31.7), agreed that everyone should be tested (AOR=7.1; 95% CI=2.3-22.1), and disagreeing PIHCT has negative influence (AOR=4.9, 95%CI=1.4-16.5) were each associated with higher odds of having tested for HIV following their supervisor initiation. Conclusion and Recommendation: The relatively high acceptability of PIHCT in this study shows fertile ground for the control, prevention and treatment of both HIV/AIDS and TB. The programme needs to be strengthened and TB supervisors should keep their efforts to promote PIHCT
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    Performance Management Practice and its Effectiveness in Motivating Employees: The Case of Dashen Bank S.C.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-05) Tesfaye, Samson; Ensermu, Matiwos (PhD)
    This study give due attention on the practice of performance management practice and the effectiveness of this practice on the motivation of employees in one of leading private bank in the country. The research is designed to apply descriptive statistics by using questionnaires and document review. A sample of 246 participants was randomly selected and questionnaires were administered from which 186 of them retuned the questionnaires. The key finding ofthe study shows that even if most respondents reported that they have the required knowledge about the bank’s mission, vision and overall strategic objectives of the companies including their jobs, the bank has a disorganized and unstructuredperformance management practiceas well as the measurementof performanceof the employees gave focus on complying rules instead of on outcomes. Likewise, most of the employees show de-motivation by the performance evaluation system of the bank. Moreover, it is found that changes in the practice of performance management have effect on the motivation of employees and also the selected eight motivational factors have a positive relationship with themotivation of employee even if there is a varying degree of effect they have on the motivation. The study extended its recommendationon that the bank should conduct continuous assessment and evaluates its employees in a cyclic fashion by implementing performance management system. And performance evaluation process should have incorporatedstakeholders (team mates and customers) and self-assessment,adding on these, the bank should exert more effort to improve employees’ motivation by linking its reward system with the performance management process