An Assessment of Academic Staff Personnel Management in Regional Colleges of Teacher Education
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2004-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This thesis was based on the findings of the research study entitled "An Assessment of Academic
Staff Personnel Management in Regional Colleges of Teacher Education ". The main purpose of
the study was to investigate the problems attached to the prevailing system of managing the
teaching personnel in some selected Regional colleges of Teacher Education, and suggest some
practical steps to be taken to improve the situation. To this end, an attempt was made to look in
to the current practices and major factors affecting the recruitment and selection of the
academic staff, their utilization, and professional development. A descriptive method was
employed to reveal the current state of academic staff personnel management in the colleges.
The sample colleges were selected from Addis Ababa, Oromia, Amhara, and SPNNR regional
states on the basis of purposive sampling technique. The subjects of the study were 82
instructors, 16 authorities in charge of recruiting and selecting instructors and 16 academic
heads. The respondents sampling was carried out through purposive and availability sampling.
Information was obtained through questionnaires, interview and documents. The result revealed
that the sample colleges lacked an appropriate planning of the academic staff needs mainly due
to lack of the required skills on part of the staff managers to analyse staff needs in quantitative
and qualitative terms. Moreover, most of the authorities didn't get any training or orientation
focused on systematic recruitment and selection techniques. Nor had they adequate experience in
handling the issue. Academic qualification and cumulative G.P.A. were found to be the prime
selection criteria of instructors; the professional assistance rendered by internal and more so by
external supervisors was found to be inadequate; and the number of training opportunities for
short-term and further education offered to the academic staff was found to be unsatisfactory.
Therefore, it is concluded that the recruitment and selection of the academiC staff was so
inappropriate that the colleges have faced a critical shortage of the required staff in various
disciplines; the utilization of the staff is unlikely to make a positive contribution to the effective
utilization of knowledge, skill and ability of the instructors. Hence, it is recommended that
Regional Education Bureaus and Regional offices of Capacity Building should plan and take the
initiative to provide the staff managers with training or orientation that focuses on skills
necessary to analyse staff needs, and on systematic recruitment and selection techniques; the
colleges ought to revise their terms of recruitment and selection criteria in such a way that
experience and technical competence are given weight in the recruitment and selection of
instructors; qualified and competent supervisors be assigned at REB level, and staff
management should make more effort to periodically assess training needs of the academic staff
and find ways to develop their abilities and up-grade their academic level.
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Assessment of Academic Staff Personnel Management