The Practices and Problems of Restructuring Educational Organizations: The Case of Oromia Region
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2007-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Since recent years, several attempts have been made to reorganize and
restructure the educational organizations of Oromia regional state along
with the decentralization policy and strategies so as to fulfill the
envisaged educational goals and objectives. However, the frequent
organizational and structural design was one of the critical problems that
impeded the realization of such goals. To that effect the frequent
practices of reorganization and restructuring of educational institutions
had gone up to the extent of being the fashion of the day. The major
purposes of the study, therefore, were to assess the practices and
problems of restructuring educational organizations of the region. It was
mainly intended to examine the effectiveness of organizational structure
in supporting the delivery of regional educational services and its
compatibilities with the goals, mission and strategies of educational
organizations.
The research methodology employed in this study was descriptive survey.
Accordingly, research questionnaires were prepared and pilot tested and
administered to a sample of 176 subjects of which 159 of the
questionnaire were properly filled in and returned. The respondents were
selected using purposive as well as availability sampling methods. In
addition to this, the structured interview, observation check-list and
review of various organizational documents were also used. The gathered
data were analyzed using some statistical tools like percentage and
means, chi-square, t-test, and one-way ANOVA test.
The major findings of the study showed that there were highly frequent
reorganizing and restructuring of the educational organizations that were
originated from lack of adequate preparation and vigorous study to
restructure them. Consequently, these practices resulted in poor
institutional performances both at organizational as well as individual
levels. The study a lso revealed that there was incompatibility of
manpower requirement with approved organizational structure. To this
effect, the existing manpower was found to be inadequate both in terms
of quantity and quality required.
Therefore, in order to mitigate these problems, it is recommended that
the Regional Education Bureau should take some intervention strategies
in creating viable and effective organizational structure and system that
respond to the need of the society based on professional study. It should
also establish transparent and clearly defined parameter which serves to
create effective orga nizational structure that can support the
implementation of the on going decentralization policy and strategies of
the country.
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Restructuring Educational Organizations