Assessment of Bpr Implementation in the Wareda Education Offices of Borena Zone

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2011-04

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Addis Ababa University

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The Government of Ethiopia started to introduce Business Process Reengineering in some federal institution in 2004 and this was latter expanded to all federal and state level offices. As such, this study was conducted to assess the status of BPR implementation in the wareda education offices of Borena Zone by examining the existing BPR related awareness and attitude of education office workers and clients towards the design, BPR implementation practices, existing implementation monitoring and' valuation mechanism and the challenges impeding the implementation of BPR in the offices. A Descriptive survey method and qualitative and quantitative research approach were used to collect and analyze the data. Instruments such as questionnaire, interview, document analyses and observatioll were used to gather data. Availability sampling technique was used to select 5 wareda education office heads, 10 process owners,34 case workers, , 5 PTA chairmen, purposive sampling technique to select 5 CSGGOHs and 5 school directors'; lottery system to sample 20 teachers and accidental sampling method to select 5 other stakeholders (investors). Quantitative data obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed by using mean and percentage and data from interview, document analysis and observation qualitatively analyzed to complement the quantitative one. The study concludes that even if large majority of workers have positive attitude towards BPR, the implementation status of BPR in woreda education offices of Borena Zone is low due to: weak team sprit emanated from variability in awareness of the workers, poor communication net work, over focus on its hardware, weak monitoring and evaluation, lack of motivation and reward, inadequate training and education, poor commitment of the leadership and problem related to creating culture of change. To alleviate this, it is worth recommending that availing a system of offering regular research based training, s tretching open, honest, and clear communication Ildwork, strengthening monitoring and evaluation, establis h.ing reliable performance measurement system as well as reward and sanction and improving commitment of leaders by evaluating them based on their level of p erfonnance in implementing BPR.

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Bpr Implementation

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