RISK MANAGEMET PRACTICE IN COMMERCIAL BANK OF ETHIOPIA WEST ADDIS ABABA DISTRICT

Abstract

The aim of this paper is analyzing the effective risk management practice of commercial bank of Ethiopia. In order to assess the risk management practice, the researcher develops survey questionnaire based on the conceptual models of the risk management practice found in the literature. Questioners distributed to 119 risk expert from a total population of 169 staffs of commercial bank of Ethiopia under west Addis Ababa district by using stratified random sampling technique. Quantitative data analysis was conducted to analyze the collected data. Both inferential and descriptive statics employed by using SPSS (Ver. 20) statistical package. In the data analysis, one-sample t-test, correlation and regression analysis were employed. Based on the finding it is concluded that all the four independent variables (understanding risk and its management, risk identification, risk monitoring, and risk analysis and assessment) have significant and direct impact on the risk management practice of the bank; with overall impact of 55.8%. The researcher recommended the bank to develop an encyclopedia in order to create common risk definitions among the staffs. The respondent suspect that technology risk, liquidity risk and foreign exchange risk will be the main risk for the bank in the future. Accordingly the researcher recommends the bank to improve its status with respect to risk management; and also examine other factors that would affect its risk management practice.