Determinants of Professional Associations' Performance in Ethiopia
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2022-02
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A.A.U
Abstract
Recognizing the performance factors in professional associations is crucial, in order to tackle
the decline in professionalism and its detrimental effect on our economy and society. Hence,
the objective of this study is to examine whether certain Intra-organizational factors affect
performance of Ethiopian Professional Associations. As identified by literature the Intraorganizational
factors are Management capacity, Program performance and Transparency.
Consequently, explanatory research design was applied using the probability sampling
approach, namely simple random sampling, n= 47. probability sampling is utilized on the
population, since it determines the likelihood that a sample is representative of a population.
Primary data were collected using self-administered structured questionnaire that was
submitted to single respondents in the respective associations and the response rate was 70.2%.
Secondary data about associations membership growth was collected from ACSO. The result of
secondary data analysis showed that associations membership growth is irregular and doesn’t
shows a definitive pattern. Then after a correlation analysis between the three independent
variables and the dependent variable was conducted. The results of the correlation analysis
indicated that there was strong correlation between Management capacity and PA’s
Performance furthermore, the correlation between program performance, transparency with
PA’s performance was substantial. The study went on to regress the 10 factors which are under
the three independent variables namely, management capacity, program performance and
transparency against the dependent variable (PA’s membership growth) to estimate the
relationship between the Intra-organizational factors and performance of PA’s. The findings of
the regression analysis revealed that 7 out of the 10 factors have shown to be significant in
determining the performance of PA’s whereas; the remaining 3 factors have shown to be
insignificant. The study recommends that more internal & external factors should be explored
in the literature to uncover more factors that are important in the determining the performance
of Ethiopian PA’s.
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professional association Performance, Intra-organizational Determinants of performance