Practice and Challenges of Management Development Program in Education Sector in Addis Ababa City. The Case of Government's Polytechnic Colleges
The general objective of this research was to assess the practices and challenge of Management Development in government of polytechnic colleges in Addis Ababa. Descriptive survey research design was employed. The research both quantitative and qualitative research approach was used. Also, take as a study population all the colleges' managers that worked in different managerial position levels. Data gathering instruments were employed mainly, closed and open ended questionnaire interview. In this effect, mean, standard deviation and frequency percentage was employed to data analysis. The findings clearly show there was a limited attention to MD programs intervention in government colleges.Therefore, according to the findings that gathered from the data there were less support and less follow up practice of MD programs in the colleges as compared to its importance. Key recommendations include for different groups that was for the government and top responsible bodies that establishing effective and institutionalized MD system in the colleges, develop MD policy, strengthen and empower the responsible department to properly manage the separate MD practices of individual departments, undertaking the whole MD cycle very carefully and in a continuous base also for individual managers motivated to do self development by using different mechanisms.