Shumey, Berhie (PHD)Samuel, Eshetu2020-02-252023-11-042020-02-252023-11-042019-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/20718A thesis submitted to school of graduate studies, Addis Ababa University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of art in public administration and development managementThe general objective of this study is to examine the impact of human resource development on the performance of public financial institution in the case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia using profit as a proxy for financial performance and education and training expenditure, health expenditure, number of employees, salary and wage, and asset as a proxy of human resource development over the period of 2005-2018. Wide differences of various empirical studies are found in the model specifications, human resource development approximation and the results obtained. The sources of data being used in this study are secondary data which obtained from various sources. Descriptive statistics and time series econometrics/regression are used in the model to analyze the data. The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) is the Multiple Linear Regression Model (MLRM) are applied in order to investigate the impact of Human Resource Development on performance of public financial institution. Human resource development occupies a central role in modern thinking about growth of organization. This study investigates whether investment in human resource development represented by investments on education and training, salary and wages, expenditure on health improvement of employees, number of employees and asset affects the performance of commercial bank of Ethiopia. The results obtained in this study shows a positive and statically significance relationship between expenditure on education and training, health and total asset of the bank with performance confirming which the literature and empirical results. Based on the outcome of the estimation, therefore, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia is expected to increase its level of investment in developing its human resource. On the other hand, increase in number of employees and wage and salary expense have negative and statically significant impact on performance of the bank. In order to enhance the contribution of human resource development, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia has to allocate adequate finance which will help to work on quality of education and providing basic health services to employees.enCommercial Bank of EthiopiaHuman Resource DevelopmentPublic Financial InstitutionThesis