Determinants of Performance of Employees Savings and Credit associations In Ethiopia (A case study of Ethio Telecom)
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Employee saving and credit associations (ESCAs) were financial sector operating behind a wall
in Ethiopia. The members were dramatically benefited from the associations as a source of
financing and investment for several years with a little general public recognition. The sectors
are primarily established for the interest of their members, saving, loan financing and an extra
dividend on the idle cash saved within the association. The number of cooperatives in general
currently approaches 1,500, excluding a small unions and voluntary cooperative not licensed.
The study was aimed to determine to what extent the loan management, saving capacity of
members, technology adoption, and Literacy status of workers and members had affected
performance of ESCAs. As a sample case study ETC ESCA was used. It has 7,200 members
from those for 379 sample size questionnaires were distributed and 361 were actually collected
and analyzed. The study was facilitated by use of primary data and secondary data. The study
adopted descriptive research design and inferential statistics in which multiple regression
analysis was applied to the data to examine the effects of explanatory variables on performance
of ESCAs. The main finding of the study is that; explanatory variables such as Loan
management, Saving capacity of members, Technology adoption, and Literacy status of workers
and members have positive significant effect on performance of ESCAs. But Saving capacity of
members has no significant effect on performance of ESCAs. All explanatory variables have
strong positive correlation with the performance of ESCAs.
Keywords: Saving, Credit, Performance, Loan management, saving capacity, Technology
adoption, and Literacy status.
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Saving, Credit, Performance, Loan management, saving capacity, Technology adoption, and Literacy status