Chapter 7

Public Sector
Human Resource
Practice in Ethiopia

Dr. Essayas Taye

legal frameworks of HRM
 Legal framework
• The legal framework of HRM in Ethiopia
-Proclamation imposed by the house of
representatives
-Regulation imposed by minstry of counciles
-Directives and policies by ministry of
employee-employer

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 Importance of HRM,Cont…nd
The significance of HRM can be discussed in four dimensions:
National, social, corporate, and professional.

1. National significance
 Human resources and their management play a vital role in the
development of a nation.
 The effective exploitation and utilization of a nation’s natural,
physical and financial resources require an efficient and
committed man power.
 Countries are underdeveloped because of their peoples are
backward.
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 Importance of HRM, Cont…nd
• The level of development in the country depends primarily
on the skills, attitudes and values of its human resources.
• Effective management of human resources helps to speed
up the process of economic growth which intern leads to
higher standard of living and fuller employment

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 Importance of HRM, Cont…nd

2. Social significance
 Provide suitable employment that provides social and
psychological satisfaction to people.
 Maintaining a balance between the jobs available and the
jobseekers in terms of numbers, qualifications, needs and
aptitudes.
 Eliminating wastage of human resources through conservation of
physical and mental health.

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Dimentions- Importance of HRM

3. Significance for an organization

-HRM can help an organization in achieving its goals more
efficiently and effectively in the following ways:
Attracting and retaining the required talents ---through
effective HRP, recruitment, selection, placement,
orientation, compensation and promotion polices.

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 Importance of HRM, Cont…nd

• Developing the necessary skill and the right

attitudes among employees—through training,
development, performance appraisal etc

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 Importance of HRM , Cont…nd

 Securing willing cooperation of employees ---

through motivation, participation, grievance
handling, etc.
 Utilizing effectively the available human resource.
 Ensuring that the enterprise will have in future a
team of competent and dedicated employees.

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 Importance of HRM, Cont..nd

4. Professional significance
It contributes to professional growth in the following
ways:
Provide maximum opportunities for personal development
of each employee
Maintain healthy relationship between individuals, and
different work groups
Allocate work properly
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 National Objectives of HRM
• The objectives of HRM is to provide with efficient and
effective work force that is to provide the right people
with the right talent , knowledge and experience that are
able to contribute towards the achievement of objectives.
The objective includes:
 Legal objectives
 Owners’ objective
 Employees’ objective
 Social objective
 Enterprise’ Objectives

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 Objectives of HRM, Cont…nd
Legal objectives (legal requirement)
• Governments require HRM to comply with government laws and
regulations such as:
– Avoid discrimination based on sex, age, disability etc.
– Allow equal employment opportunities
– Fair treatment
– Minimum pay
– Affirmative action
– Fair working conditions ,
– Avoid Sexual harassment etc.

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 Objectives of HRM, Cont…nd

Owners’ objectives
• Owners of business require their employees to
contribute to the profitability of their organization
through the satisfaction of customers.
• Owners of non-business require that the human
resource attribute to the satisfaction of the client or user
through economic operation.

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 Objectives of HRM, Cont…nd

Employee’s objective
• Employees of organizations require the HRM to assist them
in achieving personnel goals such as
– Adequate income
– Security
– Pleasant working condition
– Room for growth and development , and
– Better quality of work life
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 Objectives of HRM, Cont…nd

Social objectives
• The society provides challenges to HRM.
• They require the HRM to contribute quality product of a
high value by promoting fair Promotion and healthy
environment, etc.

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 Objectives of HRM, Cont…nd
OBJECTIVES OF HRM FUNCTION (to an enterprise)
• The contributions of HRM makes to organizational
effectiveness include the following
1. Helping the organizations reach goals
2. Efficiently employing the skills and abilities of the work
force
3. Providing the organization with well- trained and well –
motivated employees

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 Objectives of HRM, Cont…nd
4. Developing and maintaining a quality of work life that
makes employment in the organization desirable.
5. Communicating HRM policies to all employees

6. Helping to maintain ethical policies and socially

acceptable behavior

7. Managing Change to the mutual advantage of

individuals, groups, the enterprise, and the public.

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