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Papers by Dr. Gebre Mirust Beyene

Journal of Research Administration, 2024

This article focuses on appraising the root causes of violence against women and children in Addi... more This article focuses on appraising the root causes of violence against women and children in Addis Ababa city administration. Hence, descriptive and explanatory research types, 517 sample size and both primary and secondary data were used. The article conclude that, even though different conventions and declaration, homegrown policies, rules and regulations were in place, the practice against women and children violence in Addis Ababa is poor. The involvement of government bodies, civil society, professional and humanitarian association, and NGO was recapped inadequate. Regardless of the types and causes of violence, violence against women and children has become an urban epidemic that has taken a toll on women and children's physical, psychological, sexual, and economic lives. Lawlessness and implementation gap; negligence and lack of sense of belongingness; economic problem/poverty; increase of migrants to Addis Ababa; harmful customs and disobedience; proliferation of sex films and the problem of using social media; proliferation of hookah and alcohol shops, proliferation of drug users, lack of coordinated civil society organizations and political instability were cited. Of which, urban poverty, unemployment, slum habitation, lawlessness, social structure, political turmoil, emigration, acculturation, wrong perception, youth addiction, psycho-problems, negative discrimination, poor infrastructure, poor media platforms and leadership failure were identified as root causes of violence against women and children. Therefore, the city administration should work on building a multi-sectoral and multi-level policy climate; building urban leadership and policy execution capacity; building women and child-sensitive social protection; creating comprehensive legislation landscape and developing victim compensation platform.

Journal of Innovations, 2024

Intellectual capital is a multifaceted resource that has emerged as the primary resource for driv... more Intellectual capital is a multifaceted resource that has emerged as the primary resource for driving innovation and contributing significantly to public sector performance. Hence, to analyze the mediating effect of organizational learning on intellectual capital and public servant performance, data from 517 samples was collected and analyzed using descriptive and explanatory research designs. The finding revealed that intellectual capital has a direct effect on public servant performance, but organizational learning is indirect. According to the SEM model, it is also suggested that organizational learning mediates the relationship between intellectual capital and public servant performance. Intellectual capital promotes organizational learning, which enhances public servant performance. This shows human, relational, and structural capital promotes and encourages knowledge acquisition, information interpretation and distribution, and organizational memory among public servants in Addis Ababa city administration. This confirmed the theoretical frame of the study. Hence, it is endorsed Ethiopian public sectors to apply intellectual capital and organizational learning to improve public servant performance.

Journal of Innovation, 2024

Research on humanities and social sciences, 2016

Ethics and professionalism are inescapable parts of everyday practice for everyone at any level o... more Ethics and professionalism are inescapable parts of everyday practice for everyone at any level of civil service hierarchy. Hence, the objective of this journal article is to critically evaluate the Professionalism and Professional Ethics in Tigray Region. For this reason, the relevant data was collected both from primary and secondary data sources. Finally, the factors that impede the implementation of Professionalism and Professional Ethics were identified and the discussion was concluded that regardless of the institutional framework in-place and the establishment of anticorruption institutions, the application of professionalism and professional ethics was highly inhibited by lack of civil service neutrality, lack of district level decentralized anti-corruption institutions at Zones, Woredas and Sub Cities and poor accountability system.

International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014

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The State of Employee Commitment to Organizational Goals in Addis Ababa City Administration, 2021

The state of employee commitment is a multi-dimensional individual's psychological attachment to ... more The state of employee commitment is a multi-dimensional individual's psychological attachment to an organization. The genuine aspect of public sector organizations also depends to a large extent on the human resources they possess. Human resources are considered the main element that makes an organization tick, and without them, nothing in the organization would get done. Attracting and retaining the best-committed employees is the goal of every organization, but this is easier said than done. The state of employee commitment to organizational goals will also be incomplete without measuring the role of leadership. Hence, using a mixed method approach, the study tried to examine the state of employee commitment to organizational goals using the components of the Tri-Dia-Model of Employee Commitment and the Quartile-Model of Transformational Leadership. Employee engagement and job satisfaction were also used as common denominators to check the interface between employee commitment and organizational effectiveness. Descriptive and explanatory research types were employed to describe and explain the significant predictors of employee commitment. The sample size was 400 determined using methodological formulas from public sectors of the Addis Ababa City Administration. After gathering the relevant primary and secondary data, descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, factor and content analysis were used to analyze data. The study discussed the details and affirmed that, employee disengagement, unnecessary political interference, poor leadership support, discriminatory employee treatment, unfair incentives and remuneration, employee dissatisfaction, and poor employee commitment are some of the major factors affecting public servants' ability to execute organizational goals. Therefore, the city administration should have to take remedial action to control unnecessary political interference and the dyadic leadership style to promote employee commitment. A clear-cut separation of power between party politics and government bureaucracy must urgently be established. If not corrected, the status quo practices may, in addition to employee disengagement, dissatisfaction and poor commitment, jeopardize the organizational democracy and organizational effectiveness of the city and that of the country.

Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development

Ethiopia's government has been attempting to promote economic growth and development by developin... more Ethiopia's government has been attempting to promote economic growth and development by developing comprehensive national industrial policies and strategies. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to analyze the industrial policy formulation practices in Adisabeba city administration: challenges and prospects. Under this applied research, a mixed research method has been employed to investigate the practices, challenge, and prospects of industrial policy formulation. The researcher has employed questionnaires, observations, and document review to collect data from key informants. A thematic content analysis has employed to systematically describe and categorize the meaning and content of qualitative data. Furthermore a descriptive method of analysis has been utilized for the quantitative aspect of the data. Employing such designs, the study shows that the city administration has good experience in adopting and industrial policies, and development strategies, pursuing a top-down policy-making approach under the ideological and policy direction of the central government. It has developed long experience of designing and executing development plans, master plans, and structural plans in general development policies and programmes. In addition, the city administration has experience of introducing economic and administrative reforms and development programs. Recently, the city administration has developed a lot of legal and intuitional procedures, regulations, and standards that help policy designing and enforcing concerning the city's development. The city administration has recorded rapid economic and intuitional development after the dawn fall of the Derg regime. Public institutions and bureaucratic apparatus that public policies can be developed have been instituted and expanded. All these recent intuitional and bureaucratic developments are the prospects for a better policy making process. However, lack of a comprehensive industrial strategy, corrupt practices and a rent-seeking conscience, poor oversight and accountability mechanisms, and weak institutional setup to monitor and evaluate the policy process are some of the barriers still existed. Finally, the researcher advised the city administration to introduce institutional reform, an institutional framework that prevents the misconduct and rent-seeking behaviour, expansion of private financial institutions and highly professionalized bureaucratic system, a legal framework that prevents party political intervention in policy making process, mechanisms for good coordination and communication, strong policy control, and evaluation system, institutional capacity building, an institutional mechanism and to accommodate multiple values and interests in policy process.

It is believed that a modernized civil service is imperative to bridge governance dynamics with p... more It is believed that a modernized civil service is imperative to bridge governance dynamics with public interest. The Ethiopian government has introduced the change army scenario as a new modality to modernize the civil service. However, some empirical evidence indicates that though the new scenario is introduced, the civil service effectiveness is inhibited by many administrative bureaucracies. Therefore, the objective of this research is to examine the practice of the change army scenario in Addis Ababa. The relevant data was collected both from primary and secondary sources. The factors that impede the practice of change army were identified and concluded that regardless of the institutional framework in-place and some positive changes that can be cited, the application of the change army scenario is highly inhibited by misunderstanding and poorly leading the way; the application of change army is not uniform across the civil service institutions and the new scenario is not internalized; better performers are not rewarded and there is also lack of appraisal uniformity. Celebration of success is almost not practiced. Hence, the reality of the change army concepts and goals needs to be well communicated. Follow-up should be in place to make uniform the application of the new practice. Civil service leaders and process coordinators have to internalize and play their active role in leading changes.

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2016

Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports, 2015

Public Private Partnership has gradually been becoming an operational concept attracting both Pub... more Public Private Partnership has gradually been becoming an operational concept attracting both Public and Private sectors in Ethiopia. The need for PPP has already been captured as an agenda since 1992 appearing in strategic government documents. Moreover, PPP has been institutionalized by issuing relevant Proclamations based on the priorities of the government. Nevertheless, in spite of the huge potential, the implementation of PPP has been very low in the tourism Industry. Therefore, this study sought to critically assess the alluring promises and the grim realities on the ground to ensure the applicability of PPP initiatives in Ethiopia‘s tourism. It examined the status of PPP application in tourism sector based on the conventional critical success factors. Hence, both quantitative and qualitative data types were used. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were also used. All available government documents and relevant empirical studies on PPP were also used as secondary s...

The fundamental nature and history of the Ethiopian land holding and use right was characterized ... more The fundamental nature and history of the Ethiopian land holding and use right was characterized by Feudal as well as Military system in which women were of the most disadvantaged groups of the society. These days, Ethiopia has introduced constitutionally recognized land holding and use laws that clearly ensure the issue of gender equality on land holding and use rights. Nevertheless, ineffectiveness of implementing these given rights was observed in many instances. Therefore; the study was aimed to critically assess and explain rural women land use right in Tigray: the case of Kafta Humera Woreda. To assess the facts and practices of rural women land use right, probability and non probability sampling techniques were utilized and questionnaires, FGD, as well as key informant interviewees were also used to collect primary data. Secondary data were captured from different documents. The study employed both descriptive and explanatory methods and it was quantitative and qualitative in...

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2015

This study was about the civil service leadership role to implement civil service reform in Tigra... more This study was about the civil service leadership role to implement civil service reform in Tigray Region. In Ethiopia, civil service leaders are required to contribute towards the development of public sectors. To this regard, the district level decentralization in Ethiopia let civil service leaders to provide high quality public services and to ensure freedom of choice and customer participation since early 1991.The 1990s was the period of change in government from Central Planning to Federal system. It was during this time that the government has tried to restructure the civil service system as a structural adjustment with federal outlook. Not only theoretically but also in practical discipline, civil service leaders have the responsibility to implement effectively government policies and strategies. It was with this intention that, the autonomous Ethiopia civil service institutions in general and that of Tigray region's in particular were established and the civil service leaders were begun to operate independently the civil service organizations. It is believed that, a successful leadership is the cornerstone of government institutions to implement public policy which intern can have a direct impact on the development performance of a nation. However, some empirical evidence indicates that, the civil service leadership approach is inhibited by many administrative bureaucracies. Therefore, the objective of this journal article was to examine leadership role in implementing civil service reform in Ethiopia: the case of Tigray regional state. To examine the leadership role, the relevant data was collected both from primary and secondary data sources. Finally, the factors that impede the role of leadership to implement the civil service reform were identified and the discussion was concluded that regardless of the institutional framework in-place, the civil service leaders were ineffective and were not played their role effectively as a result of the inadequate appointment of civil service officials and process owners.

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2014

The Ethiopian People's Democratic Revolutionary Front (EPRDF), currently ruling party, comes to p... more The Ethiopian People's Democratic Revolutionary Front (EPRDF), currently ruling party, comes to power after 17 years struggle for liberty and egalitarianism against the Military government. The May 1991 change of government (Socialist to Federal) was therefore a turning point for the civil service. It was during the early days of the EPRDF that the government tried to restructure the civil service system as a structural adjustment with federal sentiment (multi-party democracy and market driven economy). It was with this intention that, the autonomous civil service institutions were established and the civil servant was begun to serve with merit principles. It is believed that, a successful merit based human resource management is the cornerstone government institutions to implement public policies and strategies. This in turn also can have a direct impact on the development performance of the nation. However, some empirical evidence indicates that, the merit based human resource management is inhibited by many administrative bureaucracies. Therefore, the objective of this article was to examine the practice of merit based human resource management during the implementation of civil service reforms in Tigray regional state. To examine the merit based human resource management, the relevant data was collected both from primary and secondary data sources. Finally, the factors that impede the merit based human resource management were identified and the discussion was concluded that regardless of the institutional framework in-place, the application of merit disciplines as a guiding principles were highly inhibited by unnecessary political interference, poor separation of power, poor accountability system.

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2014

In the contemporary world today, building the capacity of civil service organizations has got a n... more In the contemporary world today, building the capacity of civil service organizations has got a notable recognition from policymakers, reformers and international development agencies. It rests on the principle that investing in human and social capital enables public servants to develop the capacities needed to thrive and to play an autonomous role in developing and renewing their communities. Both concepts and practices have evolved in the development communities, ranging from the institution-building to human resource development and then to capacity development/knowledge networks via reforming government Bureaucracies. It was with this intention that, the Ethiopian government reformed its civil service. It is also believed that, a successful civil service capacity building program is the keystone of government institutions to implement public policies and strategies. This in turn have a direct impact on the development performance of the nation. However, some empirical evidence indicates that, the civil service capacity building program in Ethiopia is inhibited by many administrative procedures. Therefore, the objective of this journal article was to examine the challenges of civil service capacity building programs. For this reason, the relevant data was collected both from primary and secondary data sources. Finally, the factors that impede the implementation of civil service capacity building were identified and the discussion was concluded that regardless of the institutional framework in-place and continual human resource development, the application of relevant training was highly inhibited by lack of skill gap analysis before training was provided for the civil servants of the study area.

Journal of Information Engineering and Applications, 2015

Information and Communication Technology is making the entire world as closer as human scale and ... more Information and Communication Technology is making the entire world as closer as human scale and nowadays it is becoming a hot government agenda. Thus, the Ethiopian government placed ICT policy to develop, deploy and use information and communication technology to improve the livelihood of every Ethiopian, and optimize its contribution to the development of the country. The objective of this study was therefore, to determine the challenges of ICT implementation in Oromia with specific reference to Goro Woreda. The study applied both qualitative and quantitative approach through concurrent mixed method. Primary and secondary data sources were used to collect relevant data. The quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed, described and explained by using descriptive statistics such as cross tabs, mode and chi-square test. Hence, the finding revealed that, though, some positive changes can be cited, the main challenges of ICT implementation in the study Woreda arre lack of manager...

In the past few decades, the importance of dynamics of University-Industry Linkage(UIL) in streng... more In the past few decades, the importance of dynamics of University-Industry Linkage(UIL) in strengthening national and regional innovation competency and global competitiveness has been progressively more acknowledged. However, establishing an effective UIL for a better economic development is still a challenging endeavor in Ethiopia, particularly in Tigray region. This study is aimed at assessing the status of UIL and in order to achieve such aim it analyzed the determinants of firms' intensity of interaction with the Mekelle University (MU) and the effect of the intensity of interaction on the relevant firms' innovation performance. The findings of the study showed that the status of UIL between the firms and the university in Tigray region was at an infant stage. The study also found that firm size, firm age (startups) and government supports have had a significant effect on firms' intensity of interaction with the MU. However, the firms' intensity of interaction with the MU did not have any significant effect on the firms' innovation performance. In contrast, cooperation with customers, other groups and suppliers, firm size, firm age, and in-house R&D activities were found to have a significant effect on the firms' innovation performance. In conclusion, the acquisition of knowledge and technology from university does not have an important role in firms' innovation performance in the studied region. Consequently, the government should design effective strategies and assign responsible bodies to implement the strategies, create awareness, and organize both firms and university to meet and work together in order to enhance firms' innovation performance.

Journal of Research Administration, 2024

Journal of Innovations, 2024

Journal of Innovation, 2024

Research on humanities and social sciences, 2016

International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014

ABSTRACT

The State of Employee Commitment to Organizational Goals in Addis Ababa City Administration, 2021

Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2016

Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports, 2015

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2015

Public Policy and Administration Research, 2014

Journal of Information Engineering and Applications, 2015

Studies at certain urban centers in Ethiopia reveal the ineffectiveness of Integrated Housing Dev... more Studies at certain urban centers in Ethiopia reveal the ineffectiveness of Integrated Housing Development Program (IHDP) in achieving some of its objectives. Identifying the contextual problems and their root causes plays a vital role in enhancing the program effectiveness so as to promote the housing ownership of lower income groups. The objective of this study was to critically describe and explore practical challenges and their root causes that hindered the effective implementation of the IHDP in the study area. To realize this, relevant theories and conceptual frameworks were reviewed in a way compatible with the study. Mostly qualitative data with few quantitative were collected from primary and secondary sources using questionnaire, interviews, focus group discussion, observation and document analysis. The data results were discussed with triangulation to arrive at conclusion. Accordingly, capacity and skill problems, financial constraints, problem of addressing the target groups, weak cooperation among implementing agencies, shortage of construction materials and corrupt practices were identified as major factors inhibited the effective implementation of the program whereas their major root causes were lack of relevant pre-assessment on the organization and inadequate training ,lack of diversified financial sources and low income of the target groups, lack of due attention and inflation, lack of clearly stipulated rules, inability to use local resources effectively, and weak transparency and accountability respectively.

Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development , 2022

Ethiopia's government has been attempting to promote economic growth and development by developin... more Ethiopia's government has been attempting to promote economic growth and development by developing comprehensive national industrial policies and strategies. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to analyze the industrial policy formulation practices in Addis Ababa city administration: challenges and prospects. Under this applied research, a mixed research method has been employed to investigate the practices, challenge, and prospects of industrial policy formulation. The researcher has employed questionnaires, observations, and document review to collect data from key informants. A thematic content analysis has employed to systematically describe and categorize the meaning and content of qualitative data. Furthermore a descriptive method of analysis has been utilized for the quantitative aspect of the data. Employing such designs, the study shows that the city administration has good experience in adopting and industrial policies, and development strategies, pursuing a top-down policy-making approach under the ideological and policy direction of the central government. It has developed long experience of designing and executing development plans, master plans, and structural plans in general development policies and programmes. In addition, the city administration has experience of introducing economic and administrative reforms and development programs. Recently, the city administration has developed a lot of legal and intuitional procedures, regulations, and standards that help policy designing and enforcing concerning the city's development. The city administration has recorded rapid economic and intuitional development after the dawn fall of the Derg regime. Public institutions and bureaucratic apparatus that public policies can be developed have been instituted and expanded. All these recent intuitional and bureaucratic developments are the prospects for a better policy making process. However, lack of a comprehensive industrial strategy, corrupt practices and a rent-seeking conscience, poor oversight and accountability mechanisms, and weak institutional setup to monitor and evaluate the policy process are some of the barriers still existed. Finally, the researcher advised the city administration to introduce institutional reform, an institutional framework that prevents the misconduct and rent-seeking behaviour, expansion of private financial institutions and highly professionalized bureaucratic system, a legal framework that prevents party political intervention in policy making process, mechanisms for good coordination and communication, strong policy control, and evaluation system, institutional capacity building, an institutional mechanism and to accommodate multiple values and interests in policy process.

Juornal of Research Administration, 2024

Customer loyalty refers to the continued beneficial relationship that exists between a customer a... more Customer loyalty refers to the continued beneficial relationship that exists between a customer and an organization. As a result, service quality plays a pivotal role in creating loyal customers. Satisfaction, on the other hand, plays a mediating role between quality and loyalty. This article is aimed at examining the "mediating effect of customer satisfaction on quality service and customer loyalty" in Addis Ababa city administration from a municipal service perspective. As a result, to analyze this projected municipal concern, data from 384 samples was collected and analyzed using descriptive and explanatory research designs. The finding revealed the direct effect of quality service on customer loyalty, but customer satisfaction is indirect. According to the SEM model, it is also suggested that customer satisfaction mediates the association between quality service and customer loyalty. Service quality promotes customer satisfaction, which enhances customer loyalty. This shows that the that the service quality model in terms of the five SERVIQUAL dimensions promotes and encourages service usage, service attitude, and service cognition, aligning with service price, service quality, and service repeatability, which helps to ensure customer loyalty in Addis Ababa city administration. This confirmed the theoretical frame of the study.