Birru, Tesfaye (PhD)Taffa, Gadissa2020-06-032023-11-182020-06-032023-11-181996-05http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/21411Human resources are the most important assets to an organization and their effective management is the key to its success . Human Resource Management (HRM) facilitates the most effective use of employees to achieve organizational goals The rapid expansion in the use of computers has brought the growth in the applications of computer to the Human Resource (HR) area . Originally, the use of computers in this area was limited to such routine functions as producing pay checks, pa\Toll reports . etc . Today full fledged Human Resource Intonation Systems (HRlS) have been developed that support other activities beyond these routine functions. The various type of systems that co me under HRlS fall into three major categories : Decision Support Systems (DSS), Executive information Systems (E IS) , and Expert Systems (ES) . E:I.-pert systems development in HR domains is helpful for solving unstructured HRM activities This study experiments with the development and application of ES in HRM , taking personnel selection for promotion in Federal Civil Service Commission of Ethiopia as a case and using existing resources and facilities at the School of Information on Studies for Africa (S ISA ) As a result a prototype expert system is developed using expert system shell – Knowledge Pro and rule based knowledge representation approach. The features and capability of the prototype system developed in this work is demonstrated and discussed . The know ledge required for perfuming the task is extracted from : domain experts, written documents (on rules and regulations of promotion process), and anal\"Sis of actual cases processedenInformation ScienceThesis