The Practices And Problems Of Human Resource Training And Development In North Shoa Zone Education Offices (oromia Region

The major purpose of this study uus to investigate the practices andrnproble m s of human resource training and development in north shoa zonerne ducation offices (Oromia R e gion) .Descriptiv e s urv e y research method 'UXlSrnemployed to conduct the r esearc h. Questionnaire and do cument analysisrnu£re u sed as data gathering tools. 60 exp e rts and 29 educationalrnmanagers u£re involve d in the s tudy from eight W)redas and one townrneducation offices randomly selected including the zone e ducation office.rnThe data u£re analysed using p e r centage and m ean .rnThe findings that revealed that the training and development sections inrnthe e ducation offic es focu sed only on identifying training needs andrnfacilitating implemen tation of training and development programmes.rnHou£ver, all approac hes of training needs analys is u£re not used to comernup with appropriate and comprehensive needs. Objectives u£re als o setrnprior to the de s ign of training and d evelopment programme s though mostrnof the programmes u£re arranged by Oromia education bureau. The studyrnalso indicated that on-the-job training and development methods u£re notrnapplied in the offices. Moreov er, mechanisms u£re not set to evaluate thernout come training and d evelopme nt programmes. The managers' capacityrnto plan training and development programmes and their commitment tornallocate resources for these programmes u£re not ques tioned. Hou£ver, thernc apacity of managers to monitor and evaluate the programmes 'UXlS not asrns uch promising. [n general, though an attempt 'UXlS made to implementrnhuman resource training and dev elopment programme s in education officesrnof the zone, from the finding s of the study it can b e concluded that thernprogrammes were not implemented in a manner that UJOuld enhan

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