Assessing Recruitment, Selection, Training and Development practice and challenges: The case of SNNPR, Hadiya Zone Duna District

In Ethiopia, depending on the government's ideology the country's policies and strategies are executed. From early times up to now different governments with different policies, rules and regulations came in to power. For instance, the Derg regime (1974-1991) had its own socialist idea with a centralized policy system. Consequently, designing of policies and decision making took place in a centralized system. In addition to this, all the civil service organizations were highly centralized. This research attempts to assess the practices of human resource management in SNNPRG using questioner collected from selected public sector bureaus of Duna Woreda and secondary data of official documents. The findings reveal that their good performance of selection, recruitment and training management compared in some sectors but still there is problems facing the practice better. However recruitment and selection faced the challenges such as; it is not merit based, using inappropriate selection channels, absence of attractive salary scale, and the current regional civil servants recruitment procedure is not always allow bureaus to recruit the right candidate for the right position. Regarding, the training and development the bureaus are facing problems such as; Training and development is not based on the need assessment (Improper need assessment), not frequently given, it is given only for small number of days and no equal access to get training