Practices And Challenges Of Devolution Of Human Resource Management Responsibilities To Line Managers In Ethiopian Electric Utility

The purpose of the study is to show the practices of delegating some of human resourcernmanagement responsibilitie from HR department to line managers and to identify the challengesrnfaced. In this paper a descriptive research approach is used and designed for fifty linernmanagers, few middle and top level managers. Structured questionnaire was used to collect thernprimary data interview questions were designed to get the necessary feed back with respect tornthe study. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and presented using tables. It was foundrnthat 80 % of the overall FLMs responded HRM activities were devolved to them, while only 20%rnnot devolved or had no such plan at the time of this study. Based on the findings the studyrnconcluded that line managers of Ethiopian Electric Utility are involved in various activities and atrnthe same time they had faced with some challenges. The study recommended that HR professionalsrnshould work hard to improve their performance contribution, some HRM activities practiced byrnline managers as shown in the response and the intention of not considering HR activities as arncore component by First line managers are the weaknesses observed that shall be improved

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