Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate factors affecting budget utilization in case of Bahirdar City Administration Health Department. To achieve the objectives the researcher was adopted the mixed research approach. The study focused total count of all target population in the study area or census method used both quantitative and qualitative data, and it was collected through questionnaires of a total of 148 respondents. The Primary data was collected using closed ended questionnaires and prepared in the form of likert scale type by constructing into five-point scale. Independent variables are recoded in to three categories. To test the four research hypotheses which were closely associated with the research objectives, the research was used by Ordinal logistic regression model. The data was analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study found that the four independent variables (management support, organizational work culture, employee’s related factor and monitoring & evaluation) all have significant effects on budget utilization. Based on the findings, the study concluded that management support, organizational work culture, employee’s related factor and monitoring & evaluation significantly affects the budget utilization. The study recommended that budget utilization should be improved, give special attention to better budget plan forecasting and focus on performance of government budget. Keywords: Budget Utilization, Organizational Work Culture, Employee’s Attitude, Management Support, Monitoring & Evaluation, Health Department and Budget Performance. DOI : 10.7176/PPAR/9-8-04 Publication date : August 31 st 2019
Highlights
Effective and efficient budget utilization is determinant of socio-economic development of any given country including Ethiopia
Response Rate During the survey, a questionnaire was distributed to a total of 148 participants who are found in BDCAHD staffs included ten health centers and finance department staffs
This briefly discussed that the multicolliniarity of this study shows that management support has the value of Variance Inflation Factors (VIF) 1.692 and tolerance value 0.591, organizational work culture has the value of VIF 1.861 and tolerance value has 0.537, employees related factor has the value of VIF 1.547 and tolerance value 0.646, and monitoring and evaluation has the value of VIF 1.637 and tolerance value 0.611
Summary
Effective and efficient budget utilization is determinant of socio-economic development of any given country including Ethiopia. For effective use of budget and to gain an understanding of how public budgets have been utilized, and how they contribute to government policies, it is important to monitor the results of budget utilization. It is important for governments to define and keep track of indicators to consider what they are trying to achieve with their policies and how far they are progressing and to use the information to plan . For this reason, there is a strong link between budget monitoring understanding how public budgets are being utilized There is a strong link between budget monitoring understanding how public budgets are being utilized (Rebecca, et,al. 2011)
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