Assessment of Human Resource Development Practices of Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The development of human resource is as important as managing it. This current study examines the current practices of Human Resource Development on Employees’ Performance of Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency”in Oromia regional state. Descriptive survey design was adopted in this study. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches employed. Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency was purposively selected out of Oromia Regional State Sectors and from these selected Oromia Cooperaative Promotion Agency 132 total of employees included under the study using census method and the individual respondents stratified into top level management ,expertise and supportive staffs used for data collection. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources to achieve the objectives of the study. Data analyzed using descriptive statistics through SPSS –software. The finding of the study reveals that employees promotion, salary,, reward systems, refreshment and induction training were practiced and have positive influence on the human resource development in the Ormia Cooperative Promotion Agency. Whereas employees performance appraisal system, frequent feedback giving is less practiced in the Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency. Therefore, the researcher concluded that time based, performance based and frequently giving feedback were over jumped in this selected sector. The researcher suggested that the leaders of the employees should give performance feedback and employees performance appraisal system, for their employees to bring change in the organization. Keywords : Human Resource, Training and Development DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/13-15-04 Publication date: August 31 st 2022