Practice and Problems of Recruitment and Selection of Teachers: The Case of Private Colleges in Amhara Region

Yirga Yitayew

dc.contributor.author	Yirga Yitayew
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-24T04:20:23Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-24T04:20:23Z
dc.date.issued	2010-08-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7809
dc.description	A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Art (M.A.) in Educational Planning and Management/EDPM/	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of the study was to examine the practice of recruitment and selection of teachers and to investigate the problems encountering the private colleges of Western Amhara in relation to these activities. The study employed a descriptive survey method. Ten out of the twenty one private colleges of Western Amhara served as a sample for the study. Data was gathered from college teachers and academic deans. The colleges were selected on the basis of simple random sampling and all the teachers of those sample colleges taken as participants of the study. All the academic deans of the ten private colleges were served as the source of information. Questionnaire and interview were the main instruments used to collect data. The quantitative data were collected and analyzed by using frequency and percentages and the qualitative data were analyzed qualitatively. The major findings of the study revealed that the method of recruitment they used to get applicants was personal contact with the employees, the selection tool the colleges used to evaluate the candidates was employment interview. The commonly used criteria by the colleges in order to select teachers were academic qualification and personal familiarity; and some of the problems they encountered in the process of recruitment and selection were shortcomings in being strict to follow policies, not following rules and steps of selection process properly, and not using pre-determined and fixed criteria against which the candidates were evaluated. Based on the findings· it is possible to conclude that the colleges were using personal contact as the method of recruitment which consequently does not give the colleges opportunity to attract reasonable number of potential applicants. Since the colleges were not using all the steps of the selection process, the qualities of teachers were not tested in a proper way. In addition, the recruitment and selection activities were not free from favoritism. Based on this the researcher recommended that the teachers should be selected on the basis of pre-set, clear and well dejined criteria. The colleges have to employ diversified methods of recruitment to invite applicants. Lastly, the members of the selection committee should get training on how to conduct interview.	en_US
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT	en_US
dc.title	Practice and Problems of Recruitment and Selection of Teachers: The Case of Private Colleges in Amhara Region	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US