The Impact of Human Resource Development on Public Employee Performance in Ethiopia: The Case of Konso District

Abstract

Public organizations in Ethiopia are investing a massive amount of resources for the purpose of enhancing the knowledge, skills, and behavior of their employees. However, public managers lack knowledge regarding the actual impact of human resource development on the performance of employees. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of training and development on the performance of public employees at the local level. This article employed a mixed research approach and estimated the impact by using simple regression model. Data were collected from 250 employees drawn from sixteen public organizations. The article finds that despite poor achievements in the areas of training need assessment, administration, and evaluation, training and development has a significant positive impact on the performance of employees. It is recommended that public managers should make training and development their top priority responsibility and create supportive and collaborative environment for such initiatives.

Keywords: Training and Development, Public organizations, Employee Performance, Impact, Konso, Ethiopia

DOI: 10.7176/JRDM/69-04

Publication date:September 30^th 2020