Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science最新文献

Secondary School English Language Teachers' Perceptions of Multi-grade Teaching Strategies 中学英语教师对多级教学策略的认知

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-09-22 DOI: 10.59122/134f538r

Abate Demissie Gedamu

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The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Financial Performance of Large Manufacturing Firms in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 企业社会责任对埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴大型制造业企业财务绩效的影响

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.59122/134f53rr

Robel Bogale Legesse, None Wondwossen Jerene

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Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Toward ICT Use and ICT Integration Self-efficacy Beliefs 职前教师ICT使用态度与ICT整合自我效能感信念

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.59122/134f53pv

Petros Bekele Eshete

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TOURISM AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO HOUSEHOLDS’ INCOME IN KONSO ZONE, SNNP REGION, ETHIOPIA 旅游业及其对埃塞俄比亚SNNP地区konso地区家庭收入的贡献

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-06-03 DOI: 10.59122/134f53ad

Kayranto Kasho, None Taye Dadi, None Melkamu Mada, None Asfaw Abadi

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Validation of Questionnaire on Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices of Cooperative Group Work Assessment 教师合作小组工作评估信念与实践问卷的验证

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI: 10.59122/134f53a

Abate Demissie Gedamu, Getu Lemma Shewangizaw

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MODELING ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: LINKING COMPLETE ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS TO LEADERSHIP OUTCOMES 建立学术领导力发展模型:将完整的学术领导力行为与领导力结果联系起来

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.59122/134f5bf

Girma Mekuria

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INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING GENDER MAINSTREAMING: THE CASE OF BASKETO SPECIAL WOREDA SECTOR OFFICES, ETHIOPIA 影响性别主流化的体制因素:埃塞俄比亚特别劳动部门办事处的案例

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.59122/736027g

Lombebo Tagesse, Zeray Abebe

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Soil Loss and Its Impact on Crop Productivity Under Varying Land Uses in Demba-Gofa District, Southern Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚南部Demba-Gofa地区不同土地利用方式下的土壤流失及其对作物生产力的影响

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.59122/23502lk

Desalegn Chanie, Daniel Azaze, Teshome Yirgu, Alemu Zewudie

{"title":"Soil Loss and Its Impact on Crop Productivity Under Varying Land Uses in Demba-Gofa District, Southern Ethiopia","authors":"Desalegn Chanie, Daniel Azaze, Teshome Yirgu, Alemu Zewudie","doi":"10.59122/23502lk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/23502lk","url":null,"abstract":"Soil erosion is the main cause of land degradation in Ethiopia and annually several tons of soil is removed away from the highlands. Thus, the purpose of this study is assessing soil erosion rates under various land uses and identifying the main contributing factors in Demba-Gofa woreda. A multistage random sampling approach was used to identify the research subjects. Questionnaire, key informant interview, FGDs, and field observations were used as data collection instruments to identify the major contributing factors of soil erosion in the studied woredas. Finally, the application of RUSLE model predicted that the lowest annual rate of soil loss observed at forest land is approximately 5.43 t ha-1 year, -1 whereas the highest amount of soil loss in crop land was about 36.01 t ha-1 year-1 and followed by in the grass land 22.10 t ha-1 year-1 and in the shrub land 11.29 t ha-1 year-1. The analysis of multiple linear regression model predicted that deforestation activities, educational level of farm household heads, mismanagement of cultivated lands, perception of local farmers on soil erosion, land size, farm distance, and slope of the land were found to significantly aggravates soil erosions at p < 0.05 level. Land sat satellite image with Arc-GIS 10.3 analysis for the last 15 years (2000-2017) of the three rural kebeles indicated that a total of 489.4 ha (56.3%) forest land was converted into shrub and grasslands. Thus, the national and the local governments should focus on reforestation, awareness creation on soil erosion and how farmers manage farmlands. Keywords: Soil erosion, natural resource degradation, RUSLE, Demba-Gofa","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"378 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123388013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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BARRIERS CONFRONTING WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SECTORS: THE CASE OF DEMBA GOFFA WOREDA, GAMO GOFFA ZONE 妇女在公共部门担任领导职务时面临的障碍:以登巴·戈夫达和加莫·戈夫达地区为例

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.59122/33502fv

Zerihun Ayalew, Mengistu Agena

{"title":"BARRIERS CONFRONTING WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SECTORS: THE CASE OF DEMBA GOFFA WOREDA, GAMO GOFFA ZONE","authors":"Zerihun Ayalew, Mengistu Agena","doi":"10.59122/33502fv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/33502fv","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to investigate barriers confronting women in leadership in public sectors with reference to Demba Goffa Woreda, Ethiopia. It takes into account strategies that can be used to enhance participation of women in leadership in public sectors based on the nature of the sectors. In order to achieve this purpose, descriptive survey design has been employed. The target population of the present study is 510 out of which 146 respondents have been selected through sample size determination. Questionnaire, structured interview, and focus group discussion were employed for data collection. Data has been analyzed with the help of SPSS version 21 by employing descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation), one sample t-test and multiple regressions. The findings reveal that the current status of women’s participation in leadership is high in certain areas and they are found to be department heads, process owners, team leaders, and co-coordinators in the public sectors. The findings also reveal that employee perception related to barrier (b =0.250, p<0.05) with R2=0.62(62%) is significant and positively related to women leadership. This indicates that 62% perceive perception of employee as the main barrier to women leadership when compared to the other variables. This is due to the fact that women get too emotional and frustrated when challenge encounters them. Strategies like reserving quota for women which will promote women leadership are important in enhancing participation of women in leadership. Keywords: women; leadership; glass ceiling","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131760884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF THEIR TEACHERS’ GROUP WORK ASSESSMENT PRACTICES 选取中学生对教师小组作业评估实践的看法

Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.59122/73402ty

Abate Demissie, Getu Lemma

{"title":"SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF THEIR TEACHERS’ GROUP WORK ASSESSMENT PRACTICES","authors":"Abate Demissie, Getu Lemma","doi":"10.59122/73402ty","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59122/73402ty","url":null,"abstract":"Group work is an educational tool designed to develop learners’ cognitive and social skills at different levels of education across various subjects. We felt that it is important to see learners’ perspectives of group work assessment as they are clients that stay with teachers the whole year. To this effect, the study aimed to examine grades 11 and 12 students’ perspectives of their teachers' group work assessment practices in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS), Ethiopia. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design as the purpose of the study was to survey and describe the assessment practices. To achieve this, 270 students were selected with a systematic random sampling technique for a questionnaire survey. However, only 212 students filled the questionnaire properly. To examine whether the expected mean values were statistically significant or not as compared to the observed mean scores at both an item and scale levels, a one-sample t-test was applied. The results showed that the assessment of group work focuses on the assessment of group product with little consideration of group process and individual contribution to the group work. Besides, the teachers used to employ limited groupbased assessment tools such as group presentations, written group reports, and paper-pencil tests (tests, quizzes, examinations) which are aligned with the assessment of group product while tools that may foster group process and individual accountability like individual written reports, presentations, portfolios, demonstrations, and debates were inadequately used. Based on the findings, it was recommended that SNNPRS Education Bureau has to organize induction for teachers on group work assessment skills. Keywords: assessment practice; assessment tool; group assessment; group process; group outcome","PeriodicalId":247662,"journal":{"name":"Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science","volume":"11 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126171472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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