ASSESSEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES THE CASE OF DASHEN BANK

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the practicesof strategic human resource management at Dashen Bank S.C. pertinent data were gathered from West Addis Ababa District branches clearly looking on the practices of training and development, performance appraisal, recruitment and selection, employee relation, reward and compensation and SHRM alignment with corporate strategy.Questionnaire was distributed 125 employees of the bank out of which 120 usable questionnaires were collected and used for further analysis.Respondents were asked to reflect their perception towards the human resource management practices in Dashen bank S.C. Data processed via SPSS Version 20.0 software and analyzed through descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency and mean analysis). The result from the survey shows that majority of the Respondents were not happy by the HRM practices like training and development,performance appraisal, recruitment and selection,employeerelation, reward and compensation was not good. Dashen Bank S.C should focus its attention in adjusting the Recruitment and selection practice; improvingthe employee relation of staffs and creating good reward and compensation system, giving adequate training at the right time to the staffbased on marker assessment is recommended.