Performance Management of Selected Government Secondary Schools in Addis Ababa City Administration
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identifi; and examine the implementation of performance
management in public secondan; schools of Addis Ababa city administration. Presenting
eight basic questions regarding to what extent performance management is implemented in
the secondary school collected information and data needed for the study. The Sample
populations of the study were drawn from 10 government secondary schools in all sub-cities.
Descriptive survey method was employed for the study. Simple random sampling technique
w.as used to select respondents. Primary data were collected by administering questionnaire to
10 principals, 10 deputy principals, and 200 teachers that were selected from the government
secondary schools of Addis Ababa. The data was analyzed by using ANO VA-test and chisquare
test. The result revealed that performance management was implemented to some
extent in the secondan; schools of Addis Ababa. According to the findings the major problems
that negatively impacted on the implementation of performance management were lack of
need-based training programs, low commitment of the school management, little participation
of teachers in the school performance management, lack of performance-result-based
promotion scheme, and insufficient institutional capacity and subjectivih; in performance
reviewing. To redress the problem, the respondents recognized result-oriented performance
management system as the best practice that contains both result and process. Therefore, it
was recommended that trainings and developments should be need-based and using
continuous coaching is important, the Education Bureau should improve institutional and
managerial capacity of school managers and administrators,teachers' involvement in goal
setting of the schools has to be enhanced. In addition school managers have to develop the
culture of setting agreeable performance measurement standards with the teacher and
providing a timely feedback for teachers during the performance reviewing period
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