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Item ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDE AND BUSINESS ORIENTATION (IN CAUSE OF WOLKITE UNIVERSITY)(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2018-01) TENA BELAY, TENAItem DETRIMINANTS OF GRADUTE STUDENTS WILLINGNESS TOPARTICIPATE IN THEIR OWN BUSINESS: IN CASE OF WOLKITE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENTS(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2018-06) ABEBE ALEMUAlthough entrepreneur has become an important thing to support the decreasing of unemployment, it is not good. The aim of this study is to find the determinants of graduate student willingness to participate in their own business. The primary data for this study wasgathered through structured questionnaires distributed to Wolkite University graduate students. Three stages random sampling method was employed to select the 169 respondents out of 2555graduate students. The data collected were analyzed by descriptive statistics and econometric analysis. The study found that entrepreneurship education, attitudes, government support, and family business background, and are statistically significant and hence they are the determinants of graduate student willingness to participate in their own business. This study recommends that the concerned authority or the universities and higher institution should work more at changing the attitude of students on participating in their own business.Item ASSESMENT OF BRAND PREFERENCE OF INTERNATIONAL vs. LOCAL MOBILE PHONE BRANDS(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-01) Haileyesus YosefThe primary objective of this study was to investigate university students, specifically WKU students’, brand preference comparing international mobile phone with locally assembled mobile phone brands. Hence, this study tries to answer whether students prefer foreign brands over local brands due to the influence of western culture. In order to find out the brand preference of WKU students, the study considered two factors namely brand equity and consumers attributes. These factors had sub elements which included seven dimensions. To assess the factors influence, a sample size of 123 was selected using convenience sampling technique. The gathered data was analyzed by descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis, students of WKU overwhelmingly prefer international brands over locally assembled mobile phone brands. The analysis revealed that new technology applications, product attributes and price were the major criteria for a mobile phone purchasing decision among the students. In addition, friends or family and the internet were the major sources of information from where students get to know new mobile phone brands. Finally, brand equity dimensions were more influential in students’ brand preference than consumer attribute dimensions. In general, international mobile phone manufactures and local mobile assembling companies should focus on building their brand equity.Item DETERMINANT OF TAX EVATION (IN CASE OF WOLKITE TOWN)(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-01) ISRAEL TARIKUTax administration in Ethiopia as in some other developing countries is characterized by low tax compliance level. From an economic point of view, legal considerations apart, tax evasion has negative effects, namely a reduction of revenue yields. The voluntary compliance behavior of the taxpayers is determined by various factors and identifying these factors and treating them accordingly should be the central duty of any tax system in order to maintain voluntary compliance at reasonable level. The main objective of the study was to investigate the Determinant of tax evasion of tax payers at Wolkite branch office.to the objective of research around three research question were distributed to six respondents in wolkite town tax revenue and authority. Descriptive research design was adopted in order to achieve the objective of the study. Descriptive statistics used to identify determinant factors that determining the tax evasion the case of tax payers in the study area. The research question were analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive statistics and finally conclusion and recommendation were made in basis of the interpreted result.Item DETERMINANTS OF MARKETABLE SURPLUS OF CHICKPEA IN ETHIOPIA: (The case of Anchar district(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-01) HASSAN HUSSENThe objective of this research paper is to assess the determinants of marketable surplus and marketing outlet chosen by farmers producing chickpea in Achar district. The paper employed a commodity approach marketing to examine the factors that affect Chickpea marketable surplus. Respondents were selected based on probabilistic simple random sampling techniques. Accordingly, a sample of 94 respondents was taken. To collect relevant data, structured interviews were applied. To analyze the data both descriptive statistics (for analyzing market outlets) and econometrics models (for analyzing determinants of marketable surplus) were employed. Determinants of marketable surplus were analyzed by using multiple linear regression model. Accordingly yield, land size, variety and crop quality were significantly affected marketable surplus of chickpea. Finally the descriptive statistics result confirmed that a fairly weak preference of chickpea buyers by smallholder farmers. Therefore, farmers need to learn not only how to produce but first how to expand the size of market to improve profitability of farmer’s production. In another word there is also a need for policy interventions in the product quality control as the development of market is possible only when quality based marketing systems that offer better differentiated prices for products that differ in observable quality parametersItem ASSESMENT OF CUSTOMERS COMPLIANT HANDLING PRACTICE OF ETHIO-TELECOME IN CASE OF WOLKITE DISTRICT(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-01) HAYAT FEDLU, HAYATThis study was conducted to assess how ethio telecom is handling customers’ compliant and to see how are the reactions of customers about the complaint handling practices of ethio telecom by collecting data through questionnaire from 123 customers who found in Wolkite university and by interviewing nine ethio telecom of Wolkite employees who are working directly with customers. The findings indicated that ethio telecom was not responding timely for their compliant, and the accessibility of call center is still not good. The result further indicated that quality of network is the most prevailing problem, and there are problems in relation to the process of compliant handling by ethio telecom. Customers also felt that the company does not communicate very well about its complaints handling procedure as most of them knew it through their acquaintances. Thus, the company should communicate customers how they can file their complaints, improve the accessibility of call center, train employees on complaint handling and the company should also give timely response for customers’ complaints finally the company should build artificial intelligence system that handle the customer complain and solve minor problems automatically.Item OGATI, INDEGNIOUS CONFLICT RESOLUTION MECHANISM OF HALABA COMMUNITY: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTES(Wolkite University, 2019-01) KEYREDIN SUNAMO,; TAMIRAT TADESSE,; YANET GIRMA,The major goal of this study was to assess the challenges and the prospects of the Ogate indigenous conflict resolution mechanism in south nation nationalities and people regional state in case of Halaba community in Halaba zone. To archive this goal, an attempt was made to collect to data in the study area by using different mechanisms .qualitative research methodology was employed in the study for its appropriateness to assess the challenges and prospects of Ogate traditional conflict resolution mechanism in the study area and data was collected through the use of In-depth interview and focus group discussion. The result obtained from the study suggest that the conflict in Halaba, as in where else may vary from trivial interpersonal disagreement to the serious disputes which might lead to homicide. The most common conflict issues in Halaba communities are high growth of population, religious difference, lack of security, land grazing, farm land boarder, marriage disputes, and ethnic antagonism. therefore, to sum up the actor of traditional conflict resolution mechanism of Halaba plays role in the resolution of conflict between neighboring community or two parties and each level of actors decide clear and fair decision on the issues and finally punish the wrong doing oneItem TAXASSESSMENTANDCOLLECTIONRELATEDPROBLEMON CATEGORY“C”TAXPAYER(ACASEOFASSELATWON)(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-02) ALEMU MEKURIA,The studywas conducted to assess the challenge faced the Asella city administrationrevenueAuthoritywhilecollectingtaxfrom businesscommunity ofthecitywhicharecommonlyknownascategoryctaxpayer.Theresearcher believethatfindingsofthisstudycancontributeinenhancingthetaxrevenueof thecityadministrationand thegovernmentatlargebyexposing thecore problemsonthetaxcollectionactivitiessoastoenablingthemtoputtheireffort tosolvethoseobservedproblems.Toconductthestudytheresearcherused bothprimaryandsecondarydata.Althoughthedatawascollectedfrom various sourcetaxpayerandRevenueAuthorityemployeewerethemainsourceofdata forthestudy.Thestudyemployedstratifiedrandom samplingfortaxpayerand judgmentalsamplingforemployeeofrevenueauthority.Inordertopresentand analyzethedatainreliableandclearwaytheresearcherusedbothtableand percentagetosummarizethestudyfinding.Generallyfindingofthestudyreveals thatmostoftaxpayerespeciallyinthoseundercategorychasbeenfacing variousproblemsinrelationtotaxationsystem.Despitetaxpayerpositive attitudetowardthegeneralconceptionoftaxationmostofthesurveyedtax payerstatedthatwhattheyarepayingarebeyondtheircapacitytopaythat neithertheyhavenotrustintheemployeeofauthoritynormerelyoveralltax estimation.Thestudyconcludedthattheauthorityofthecityadministrationis being reluctantinmaking thetaxlow orprocedure,objective,transparent, understandabletotaxpayer.Thustheresearcherrecommendedtheresponsible taxauthorityshouldrevisetheirworkingsystem andpromotetransparencyso thattrustoftaxpayeronthetaxsystemwillgradualadvanceItem ASSESMENT OF WORKING CAPITAL MANEGEMENT IN CASE OF DH GEDA FLOUR SHER COMPANY(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-02) ABAYNEH MEBRATThe major purpose of the study is to assess working capital management in the case of DH Geda flour factory. In addition to this the paper identify the major area of problem in relation to working capital management, the limitation and come up with possible suggestion to fill the gap and to overcome the stated working capital management problems. The paper will use primary and secondary source of data to analysis the state problems about working capital management and to achieve the objective of the research. Analysis data shows that, even though there are some problems of working capital management of the factory has almost good performanceItem Effect of Peer Influence and Its Consequences on Female Students ‘Academic Achievement in Wolkite University(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-04) Senait Abayne, SenaitThe main objective of this study is to assessing the peer influence and its consequence on academic achievement of female students in Wolkite University female students .quantitative research method were used to data analyze and interpret the data. The total number of target population was40 female students selected through systematic random sampling technique. To analyze the quantitative data the researcher used to obtain through questionnaire and analytical technique (frequency and percentage);. The major finding of this study that affect female academic achievement was peer influence, family factor and environmental factors was the major factors that influence the female academic achievement. The peer influence has negative comparison usually result in self –esteem. Based on this finding the researcher recommended that the University was to advised fulfill suitable reading place sufficient reading material and guidance and the university advised to give awareness about the consequence and the negative impact of night club, drink alcohol and use drugItem ኦሮማይ፣ደራሲዉናከአድማስባሻገርልብ-ወለዶች የሴት ገፀባህሪያትአሳሳልናከእንስታዊነትፅንሰሀሳብአንጻርሲተነተን(Wolkite University, 2019-05) ረድኤትእሱባለዉ,በልብ ወለድ ዉስጥ ገፀባህሪያትአምሳለሰብ ተደርገዉ ይሳላሉ፡፡የገፀባህሪያትአሳሳሎች አካላዊ፣ ማህበራዊ፣ስነልቦናዊእናሞራላዊበመባልበአራትይከፈላሉ፡፡የሴትገፀባህሪያትከወንዶችጋርበእኩልነት መሳልአለባቸዉ፡፡ነገርግንየበአሉ ግርማ ሶስትመፅሐፍቱዉስጥ ያሉ ሴትገፀባህሪያትበወንዶች እና በሚኖሩበትማህበረሰብጥቃትየደረሰባቸዉ የተጨቆኑእናለበቀልየተነሳሱቆነጃጅትናቸዉ፡፡ስለዚህየሴት ገፀባህሪያትንአሳሳልመተንተንናከእንስታዊነትአንጻርመገምገም አስፈላጊነዉ፡፡ የዚህጥናትአላማ ኦሮማይ፣ደራሲዉ እናከአድማስባሻገርበተሰኙትልብ-ወለዶች ዉስጥ ያሉሴትገፀ ባህሪያትንከገጸባህሪያት አሳሳልእናከእንስታዊነትጽንስሀሳብአንጻርመተንተንሲሆንአይነታዊበተለይም ገላጭ የምርምርዘዴንመሰረትበማድረግ እንዲሁም መጽሀፍትን፣ጥናታዊ ጽሑፎችን፣መፅሔቶችንእና ጋዜጣወችንበማንበብ፤የተለያዩሰወችንበማማከርመረጃተሰብስቧል፡፡ ኦሮማይ፣ከአድማስባሻገርእናደራሲው ልብ ወለድ ላይያሉሴትገፀባህሪያትበጥሩሁኔታተስለዋል፡፡ ቢሆንም ግንከወንድገጸባህሪያትአንጻርበቁጥርም ሆነበተሰጣቸዉሚናዝቅተደርገዋል፡፡ስነጥበብለሰው ልጅስሜትቅርብበመሆኑደራሲዎቻችንለእንስታዊነትፅንስሀሳብትኩረትሰጥተዉየጾታእኩልነትንየሚያሳዩ ስራዎችንበመስራትማህበረሰቡያለውንየተሳሳተጾታአመለካከትእንዲቀየርቢያስተምሩመልካም ነዉ፡፡Item ኦሮማይ፣ደራሲዉናከአድማስባሻገርልብ-ወለዶች የሴት ገፀባህሪያትአሳሳልናከእንስታዊነትፅንሰሀሳብአንጻርሲተነተን(Wolkite University, 2019-05) ረድኤትእሱባለዉ, ረድኤትበልብ ወለድ ዉስጥ ገፀባህሪያትአምሳለሰብ ተደርገዉ ይሳላሉ፡፡የገፀባህሪያትአሳሳሎች አካላዊ፣ ማህበራዊ፣ስነልቦናዊእናሞራላዊበመባልበአራትይከፈላሉ፡፡የሴትገፀባህሪያትከወንዶችጋርበእኩልነት መሳልአለባቸዉ፡፡ነገርግንየበአሉ ግርማ ሶስትመፅሐፍቱዉስጥ ያሉ ሴትገፀባህሪያትበወንዶች እና በሚኖሩበትማህበረሰብጥቃትየደረሰባቸዉ የተጨቆኑእናለበቀልየተነሳሱቆነጃጅትናቸዉ፡፡ስለዚህየሴት ገፀባህሪያትንአሳሳልመተንተንናከእንስታዊነትአንጻርመገምገም አስፈላጊነዉ፡፡ የዚህጥናትአላማ ኦሮማይ፣ደራሲዉ እናከአድማስባሻገርበተሰኙትልብ-ወለዶች ዉስጥ ያሉሴትገፀ ባህሪያትንከገጸባህሪያት አሳሳልእናከእንስታዊነትጽንስሀሳብአንጻርመተንተንሲሆንአይነታዊበተለይም ገላጭ የምርምርዘዴንመሰረትበማድረግ እንዲሁም መጽሀፍትን፣ጥናታዊ ጽሑፎችን፣መፅሔቶችንእና ጋዜጣወችንበማንበብ፤የተለያዩሰወችንበማማከርመረጃተሰብስቧል፡፡ ኦሮማይ፣ከአድማስባሻገርእናደራሲው ልብ ወለድ ላይያሉሴትገፀባህሪያትበጥሩሁኔታተስለዋል፡፡ ቢሆንም ግንከወንድገጸባህሪያትአንጻርበቁጥርም ሆነበተሰጣቸዉሚናዝቅተደርገዋል፡፡ስነጥበብለሰው ልጅስሜትቅርብበመሆኑደራሲዎቻችንለእንስታዊነትፅንስሀሳብትኩረትሰጥተዉየጾታእኩልነትንየሚያሳዩ ስራዎችንበመስራትማህበረሰቡያለውንየተሳሳተጾታአመለካከትእንዲቀየርቢያስተምሩመልካም ነዉ፡Item THE ROLE OF AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL ACTIVITES; IN CASE OF SHASHOGO WOREDA.(Wolkite University, 2019-06) WOGAYEHU WORKU..., WOGAYEHU; KEMAL MOHAMMED, KEMAL; TAREKEGN DODA, TAREKEGNThe main purpose of this study was to assess the women role and their participation in political activities in case of shashogo woreda. The qualitative method was used to attain the objective of the study. There are 36 kebeles in shashogo woreda. However, the research focused on two kebeles,because of shortage of time, shortage of money and the study of the research area was far. Respondents were selected through simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. The gathered data were analyzed, summarized and presented qualitatively. The study revealed that women participation have important role in political activities.Item Assessment of Organizational Performance of Water Development Office on Clean Water Supply Practices; A case Study of Gubrie sub-city, Wolkite town, Gurage Zone ,SNNPRS.(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) Dursa Fashiga--, Dursa; Beshir kadi, Beshir; Hana Degefu, Hanareduce the mortality and morbidity rate (MoWR, 2002). The study was designed to assess the organizational performance of water development office on clean water service practice supply in Wolkite town in Gubrie sub-city of Guraghe zone of Southern Nation Nationality People Regional State of Ethiopia. In view of meeting this objective, it utilized a descriptive case study design and mixed research approach to collect and analyze data. Representative samples were selected using both random and non-random sampling methods to cover 63 respondents lived in selected sub- city. Questionnaire and key informant interview were used as tools of data collection. Data obtained via survey questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis. Data collected by key informant interviews was analyzed by description and method of triangulation. The findings of the study revealed that the problems related to organizations providing clean water supply practices, which found in study area; Lack of electric light; lack of using a generator to bring water and distribute water for society ,lack of infrastructure, lack of replacement of old pipe line, lack of giving water service on time and organization does not have enough budget and the above problems are could hinder he organizational performance of water development office on clean water service supply practices. The study also sets some recommendation to overcome the problems of organization.Item ASSESSING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN PREVENTIVE CRIME: INCASE OF WOLKITE TOWN.(Wolkite University, 2019-06) CHALA BEDASA,; KALKIDAN WENDIMU,; KEMAL AMAN,This study deals with the role of community participation in preventing crime in case of wolkite town, Guraghe zone; Ethiopia. The main objective of the study was to assess the role of community participation in preventing crime in case of wolkite town. It is also to identify major causes and consequences of crime, to explain the role of community participation in preventing crime, and to assess the crime prevention mechanisms in societies of wolkite town. To achieve the objective, 25 respondents were selected purposively from wolkite town. Both primary and secondary data were employed and were analyzed by both quantitative and qualitative data. In the study area crime and crime related problems such as theft, corruption, killing, conflict and etc are the major problems of the study area. Therefore, to minimize the problem of wolkite town community should participate in crime prevention together with police force, government body and private sectorItem ASSESSINGTHEPRACTICESOFPRICINGDECISION(INCASEOFSORESSAHOTEL)(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) ERMIAS WORK ALEMAHUThis study was conducted on wolkitet own and Farf rom AddisAbebaby 158km'satsoutherndirection.Themainreasonthatinitiatestheresearcheristoconducttothestudytoassesspracticeofpricingdecisionandtosupportpossiblesolution.Tocollectdataromtheorganizationtheresearcherwouldbeusedquestionnairesandsamplingtechniques .That means the questionnaires has been the distributed to those Employee so fthe organization& customers whose re selected dtogivetheir responsesItem THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLES AND ADOLESCENTS’DISCIPLINARY BEHAVIOR:INTHECASEOFABAFIRANISASECONDARYANDPREPARATORYSCHOOLSTUDENT(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) WOYNISHET SEIFU, WOYNISHETThemainpurposeofthisstudywastoexaminetherelationshipbetweenperceivedparentingstyles andadolescents’disciplinarybehaviorinabafiransasecondaryschoolandPreparatorySchool.By usingsimplerandomsampling87participantswereselectedfromgrade9andgrade11students. Quantitativeresearchquestionnairewasadministeredtocollectdata.Thedatawereanalyzedby descriptivestatisticssuchPearsonProductMomentCorrelationcoeficient.Correlationanalysis showedsignificantrelationshipsbetweenadolescentdisciplinarybehaviorandthefourparenting styles.TheresultrevealedthatAuthoritarianparentingstyletendedtobemoreprevalentthan amongotherthreediferentparentingstyleandalsotheresultdeterminedthatauthoritativeItem DETERMINANT OF LOAN PORTFOLIO QUALITY IN LARGE MICRO FINANCE INSTITUTION IN ETHIOPIA(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) TIZITA GETACHEW, TIZITAThis study examined determinants of loan portfolios quality in large micro finance institution by using panel data of ten (10) MFIs from the period 2005- 2014. The study employed one dependent variables a s proxies for loan portfolios quality, namely: portfolio at risk over 90- days (PAR-90days) .This study was crucial from the fact that there is limited research on large MFIs loan portfolios quality using quantitative approach in Ethiopia. This Loan portfolio quality is measured by six independent explanatory variables there are institution size (LnTA), debt to equity (LEV), Deposit to loans (DTL), operating expense ratio (OPEX). Gross loan portfolio/ total asset (GLP/TA) and return on equity (ROE). Secondary data was used for ten large micro finance institutions which stayed in the industry more than ten years. Data used for this analysis is obtained from the annual financial reports of large MFIs, data from books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and reports of various governmental and nongovernmental organizations such as AEMFI (Association of Ethiopian Micro Finance Institutions). The correlation and multiple regression analysis was done with random effect model and EView 7 software used to regress the data based on Regression result. The findings of the study revealed that size, debt to equity, deposit to loan, Gross loan portfolio/ total asset and return on equity had positively significant impact on portfolio at risk over 90 day at different level of significance and The study finds insignificant results on only operating expense ratio Accordingly, the findings of the study may have implications for large MFIs and policy makers in that it provides hint on some important determinants of loan portfolios quality.Item THE PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON FEMALE STUDENTS: THE CASE OF WOLIKITE UNIVERSIT(Wolkite University, 2019-06) Meharu Moloro, Meharu; Musbahu Abdella, Musbahu; Felekech Sahle, FelekechItem IMPACT OF PARTICIPATORY DECISION MAKING ON JOB SATISFACTION (IN CASE OF AMBO UNIVERSITY WOLISO CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION)(WOLKITE UNIVERSITy, 2019-06) ABAYNEH DINBERU; AWEKE LEMA; MARTA MULUGETAParticipatory decision making offered valuable opportunities to focus on work activity and goals to identify and correct existing problems and to encourage better current and future satisfaction of job. Thus performance of the whole organization will be enhanced. The study was aimed to assess the Impact of participatory decision making and job satisfaction in Ambo University Woliso campus Administration. More particularly, at mapping to assess the factors that affect job satisfaction of employee and the advantage and disadvantages of participatory decision making and to evaluate the types of participatory decision makingThis study about participatory decision making and job satisfaction on workers performance also discusses about benefit, approaches and methods decision. The study were conducted by gathering information though reviewing related books and documents in addition to the main primary sources questionnaire both, open and closed ended questions and interview, that were distributed to employees selected by simple random sampling technique. The sample size was about 675 of the total population of 62 employees of University. These employees subjected to the study were employees of Ambo University woliso campus Administration who were managerial and non-managerial staffs.After the data gathered, it was analyzed precisely using tables, percentages and generalization. Generally, more than half of the employees did not take part in the process of decision making. As a result this becomes a ground for employee’s dissatisfaction and awarding employees about the objective of taking part in the decision making the respective bodies and giving invaluable time aware them