Assessing Managerial Effectiveness of Woreda Education Offices in West Arsi Zone, Oromia National Regional State
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2012-06-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The objective of this study was to examine the managerial effectiveness of Woreda EducationOffice in West Arsi Zone. The study was delimited to 5 Woreda and one Administration Town.The source of data was primGly and secondmy sources. The primmy data was collected fromWoreda education heads, team leaders, experts and Zonal head. While, secondary data wascollectedfrom documents of Woreda Education Offices that was related to planning, resourcesand the criteria of assigning and recruiting educational managers. Total of 89 copies ofquestionnaires was distributed to 22 Woreda Education Officials and 67 experts of EducationalOffices. Besides, interview was conducted with Woreda education heads and zonal head. Adescriptive survey method was used. The participant's of Woreda education experts wereselected by simple random sampling, whereas, the Woreda education officials and Zonal headwere selected by availability sampling. As the result of the analysis made the following findingwere obtained under managerial junctions and availability of resources. More specifically, themajority of respondents were rated poor in common that, preparing short, medium and longterm educational plan on the basis of Zonal and Regional level plan, the involvement ofstakeholders and gathering detail information during plan preparation and decision making,quality of decision making, the assign of right person at right places, the high turnover, thequality of leadership, recognizing rewarding and commitments of educational leaders, teamheads and experts, 'the availability of qualified and experienced heads and officials ineducational planning and management, availability of transport means and other infrastructureand the availability and utilization of financial resources. To this regarded, woreda educationoffices in West Arsi Zone was poor implementation of educational goal and objective.Therefore,Woreda Education Office~: should commitment, motivate in there woke, establishedgood governance and establishe conducive environment in their offices
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Assessing Managerial Effectiveness of Woreda Education