HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO QUALITY EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF HADIYA ZONE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the human resource management practices and its contribution to quality education in Hadiya zone secondary schools. For this purpose, a sample of 171(88.1%) teachers, 18(100 %) principal and vice principal, 24(82.8%) woreda education experts and 14(60.86) Zone and Regional education experts respondents were drawn through available sampling method with the combination of simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires, Interview and document analysis were used to gather data. Data gathered through questionnaire have been analyzed with descriptive statistics (mean and frequency) and inferential statics (t-test).Moreover, the data obtained using interviews and from document have been analyzed identifying patterns and themes drawn from participants’ own responses. The study revealed that human resource management practices in the sampled zone contribute to quality education. The calculated result obtained using inferential statistics showed that there were no significant statistical differences between the opinion of principal and education offices experts respondents on different issues raised under the practices of human resource management and its contribution to quality education at Zone. Finding indicated that the majority of respondents were replied that human resource management practices contribute to quality education. However, in the sampled zone human resource management practices conducted without per-plan. Recruitment and selection were run in the absence of right persons at right position in the right time, which, influences negative impacts on quality education, also appraisal practices not focused to the quality education and the on-job and off-job training not separate the shortage of teaching staff by kind and by subject in secondary school. In addition, there were challenges such as turnover of teaching staff, lack of commitment of responsible bodies’ lack of skilled manpower, relation of blood and politics and low salary were some of major problems of the practices. The study concluded that the sampled zone has human resource management practices with some limitations. Therefore, it has been recommended that the human resource management practices shall be planned and designed systematically in order to address these constraint. Generally, the study suggested that human resource management practices have to be strategic and systematic in order to achieve the quality education.