Human resource development practice and employees‟ satisfaction: The case study Ethiopian Electric Utility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

Employees are major assets of any organization. The active role they play towards the organization success cannot be underestimated. The main purpose of this research study was to assess the relationship between HRD practices and employees‟ satisfaction in EEU. The study was used descriptive and inferential method of research design. The research design approach was used method of data collection for its primary data collection. The primary data was collected by semi structured interview and survey questioners. The secondary data was collected from written documents, fact in brief and magazines of EEU. The selection of the respondents in the corporation was carried out by using probability sampling technique under strata random sampling method. There were 12046 employees in EEU. From these numbers 372 employees were included as sample size representatives of the total numbers by calculation. The data analyses were used descriptive statistics, correlation and linear regression model to test the hypotheses with the help of statistical package of social science (SPSS) version 16.0 software. The data analysis was used quantitative and qualitative research approach for data analysis. The study finding revealed that HRD activities like learning, training, development, employee‟s performance evaluation and education shows positive association with employee‟s satisfaction. The findings also show that employees in EEU are satisfied by this HRD practices. Moreover, the study findings revealed that HRD practices such as: learning, training, development and employees satisfaction were significant predictors of employees satisfaction. Therefore, based on this finding the employees are satisfied in HRD practices at work, but it is recommended EEU will better improve on educated employee placement, payment for employees and better practices on HRD practices to make strong association between HRD practices and employee‟s satisfaction.