Practice and challenges of Organizational Capacity Development at Hope University College
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess the practice and challenges of Organizational Capacity
Development at Hope University College. In order to achieve this, descriptive survey method
was applied, because this method can describes the current situation of the UC more clearly and
precisely than other survey methods. OCD helps organizations as a tool to perform their vision
and mission .HUC was one of HEIs working in developing educational system of the country and
training young generation to be productive citizen. In order to win the desired strategies and to
be competent in the market the college planned to reorganize its working system alongthe
principles of Organizational Capacity Development.OCD used as a development instruments to
enhance the activities of the college to provide quality education. This research was designed to
investigate what practices and challenges were faced the organization during the
implementation of capacity development as a means of development. The researcher organized
basic question in order to see the practices and the challenges. These basic research questions
were, what are the current organizational practices of organizational capacity in Hope
University College?,what are the challenges for enhancing the effectiveness of organizational
capacity development at Hope University College?, how Hope University College manage
performance assessment and evaluation in order to identify progress and the challenges during
past strategic plans? Andwhat are the prospective strategies for enhancing the effectiveness of
the Organizational Capacity Development in the Hope University College?. Thirty Eight
respondents were selected from 79 employees using purposive sampling technique. As
concerning data source both primary and secondary sources were implemented, the primary
data collected using semi-structured interview and secondary data were gathered through
document analysis. Based on the data from the respondents the UC has strong practices related
leadership,developmentof infrastructures,management,human resource management, internal
and external relationship meanwhile the result of the research indicates that there are gap
related to resource of finance and finance management, participation of employees on
managerial activities and training and development. Based on final result of the researchthe
researcher concluded thatlack of human resource management experience, absence of training
and development,disorganized management of resource, low participation of employees at
managerial activities, absence of networking relationship with other private educational
institutions, increasing of turnoverand unorganized performance evaluation were basic gaps
identified by the study.And finally the researcher recommend the following organizing strong
human resource management, recruiting energetic staffs, participation of staffs in managerial
activities should be increase, internal fund resource should be assessed, both physical and
technical infrastructure should be organized in order maintain for further organizational
capacity development.
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Practice and challenges, of Organizational Capacity