FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC & SELECTED PRIVAT BRANCH BANKS IN THE CASE OF HOSSANA TOWN

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to compare few internal factors affecting the performance of employees in the bank industry of public &private branch bank in SNNPRG at Hossana town. A survey was conducted from a sample of 117 employees. The survey research descriptive design was employed. Five factors, namely ability, training, motivation, working environment, organization culture as independent variable and employee performance as dependent variable consisting 50(fifty)items a set of five point Likert-type scales was used. The research is quantitative research approach usingwith proportionate stratified sampling & Cross sectional survey method. The collected data has been analyzed using SPSS version 20. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to determine the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The finding results obtained that the average mean value for ability (mean =3.93 &3.74), training (mean = 3.59& 3.03), motivation (mean = 3.77& 2.82), working environment (mean =3.39 &3.21), organization culture (mean =3.95 & 3.6) &employee performance (mean =3.85& 3.72) for public & private branch bank respectively. The independent variable at CBE branch bank of this study correlation values are (r = 0.976– 0.992, p<0.01) this is closer to +1 &similarly the independent variable at selected private branch bank of this study correlation values are (r = 0.981 – 0.990, p<0.01) this is closer to +1 & the result indicate strong positive effect relation & statistically significant on dependent. Also the value of R square obtained the model summary all independent variables in this study explains 99.3 % (R2 = 0.993) of the dependent variable at the study organization