Abstract:
This paper was aimed to examine the effect of SHRM practices on employee
performance in private banking sector in Ethiopia in jimma Districts. This study used
descriptive research design to show the effect of strategic human resource
management practices on employee performance, the study population, which
consisted of employees in the private banks in Jimma town, and the sample size
comprised 165 respondents. To achieve the study objectives, the researcher developed
and distributed a questionnaire, asked interview questions and collected and analyzed
the data using SPSS, correlation analysis was done by use of Pearson correlation
coefficient in order to establish the kind of relationship existing between the
independent variables and the dependent variable while ANOVA was done in order to
investigate whether the variation in the independent variables explain the observed
variance in the outcome. To establish the contribution of each of the independent
variables multiple regression analysis was carried out. The correlation results
indicated that strategic recruitment and selection, strategic training and development,
strategic performance appraisal and strategic compensation significantly correlated
with the employee performance in private banks in Jimma Districts. The regression
result shows that 75.5% of the variance in employee performance could be explained
by the independent variables Recruitment, Selection, Training, Development,
Performance Appraisal and Compensation. The paper provided recommendations for
the organizations that they should arrange other forms of benefits to keep employees
motivated and improve the factors and to make its employees the major source of
competitive advantage.