Human Resource Professionals’ Role in Maintaining Employee Engagement during Merger; a case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and former Construction and Business Bank
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to examine the level of HR role and employee engagement and then examining the relationship between the two variables. The study was made based on the interview conducted with some selected employees of the bank and the questionnaires administered to 315 clerical, professional and administrative employees of CBE and former CBB. Descriptive statistics and spearman correlation were used for the data analysis. Change requires active employee engagement that derived by active involvement of HR professionals. Due to a competitive scenarios, the bank need to have HR professionals who know their role and actively involved during such change through which the employees reach to the highest engagement level. The result of the this study revealed that the employee engagement and HR professionals involvement at CBE are low. From the study it was also noted that there exists a statistically significant positive relationship between employee engagement and the role of HR professionals. Hence, to achieve its vision of becoming a world class bank, CBE has to have employees who are highly engaged and actively involved HR professionals that strive to take their bank to the highest level.
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Human Resource