ASSESSMENT OF PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT ETHIOPIAN MULU WONGEL AMAGNOCH CHURCH DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to assess the practices and challenges of employee performance management system at Ethiopian Mulu Wongel Amagnoch Church Development Commission. The study tries to address the basic questions of how the alignment was made between organizational goal with that of the departmental and individual goal, identifying the purpose of PMS, how the planning, execution, assessment and review process was handled and challenges faced while implementing performance management. The study was limited to Addis Ababa area; employees working on Head office, Addis Ababa branch office and Addis Ababa Projects, and who have served the commission for more than a year which is 64 employees to fill the questionnaire. Finding of the study revealed that lack of sufficient resource allocation to execute their job properly, the performance issue not addressed timely, performance evaluation standards were not fair, clear and capable of the true measurement, the strategic plan of the commission is not clear, realistic & attainable and not aware of all employees and gathering of information about employee performance was limited are the major problems noted. Furthermore, the result of evaluation did not attach with reward, recognition and development schemes. Having this in mind the researcher concluded that even though the Commission has some good qualities in clearly defining the mission, vision and values and developing strategy map, it should do more to make the performance management system to be more useful to the Commission. In order to fill the identified gap, sufficient resources should be provided for execute their job, addressed/take corrective action timely when the gap occurred on the performance issue, set or establish an appropriate and clear performance evaluation standard,, strategic plan of the commission must be clear, realistic and attainable and fully aware to all staff and information gather from different sources about the performance of an employee. Finally, it is suggested to that it should be provided some privileges to employees by applying reward, recognition and development