A Critical Study of Public Personnel Administration in Ethiopia with a Focus on Oromia State Government
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2007-07
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A.A.U
Abstract
In Ethiopia, a country of diversified people with their own distinct cultures, administrative
Systems, religious and political ideologies which had fallen under the administration of
aristocracy, no attempts were made to develop, nurture and adopt an indigenous national
ideology and system of administration. Abuses of authority, inefficiency, corruption and
Irresponsiveness were the main vices which still prevail in the political and administrative
structure at all levels of governments in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's civil service system, therefore, is in urgent need of in-depth analysis of problems
in specific contexts rather than prescribing western models as panacea for all evils in the
civil service. In this thesis, efforts have been made to critically examine the public
personnel administration system in federal Ethiopia with a focus on Oromo state
Government.
The scope of the research was limited to the assessment of the civil service administration
which is under the direct regulation of the Federal and Oromia Civil Service Commissions.
The Federal and the Oromia Civil Service Commissions were, therefore, the prime sources
of information on the overall national and regional pubic service systems.
The term public personnel is often used interchangeably with such terminologies as the civil
service, civil servants, government employees, public sector employees and the like.
Nowadays the idiom 'human resources administration' (HRA) is becoming popular instead
of personnel administration, personnel management or manpower administration.
Whichever idiom preferred, in its modern sense public personnel administration refers to
the administration or management of the human resources through systematic, pragmatic
and flexible approach towards the planning, attracting, developing, maintaining,
coordinating, motivating them in such a way that enhances employees' quality of life and
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Critical, Public