PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE AND ITS EFFERCT ON PRODUCTIVITY AT SAVE THE CHILDREN – ETHIOPIA, COUNTRY OFFICE

Abstract

Performance management system enables organization to measure the performance of the organization itself, organizational members and the team as well. Save the Children International has establish the current performance system on October 2012.However is it not well understood by most of Save the Children International employees. This study therefore was undertaken to assess the overall employee performance management practices at Save the Children International. For the data collection, questionnaires were distributed to 68 selected employees uses simple random sampling technique and interview was undertaken with 5 senior management staffs of SCI. The literature review part of this study shows the purpose of performance management, its components and empirical studies. The research design employed in this research is a descriptive survey research using both qualitative and quantitative approach to collect data. This research draws upon the data collected using the designed tools and secondary sources available in the organization under study. For the data summarization SPSS software was used. The research findings shows that challenges that includes; employees not participating in formulation of their own performance plan together with their supervisor, lack of sufficient resources to excite the expected job, chance not given to assess own performance, biasness during the performance monitoring, insufficient capacity development facility, unfair rating, rewarding culture not usual in the organization and they believe the practice is to fulfill the requirements of submitting to the human resource department. As a result it is concluded that the practice of employee performance management is bad. All the main findings of this study are summarized, conclusions drawn and recommendations given to improve the practice of the employee performance management system which has the potential to significantly contribute to the development of the organization.