The Link between Leaders' Wasteful Management Practices and Employees' Engagement (A Case study of Deber Tabor Hospital, Ethiopia)

Assegid Demissie Shishigu¹

¹Assistant Professor, Department of management, Atse Twodros Campus, University of Gondar, Ethiopia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to assess the perception of medics of their Superiors' wasteful managerial practices and their own engagement to the hospital. All medical staff of Debr-Teabor Hospital,South Gondar, Ethiopia was taken as a sample of the study and 73 percent of them participated in the study. Adapted standard instruments were used to measure both variables. Cronbach's Alpha was used to test its reliability. The result of the study shows that about 47 present of respondents confirmed the manifestation of wasteful managerial practices. If these figures are an accurate representation of employee behavior, it means that energy and enthusiasm of 85 percent of medical staff (a tremendous amount) are not available to their Hospital .they are disengaged or are not engage. Wasteful Managerial Practices has significant negative relationship with Employee engagement (r=-.372**) and it explained only12.2 percent of the variation in Employees' Engagement. Regarding to components of Wasteful Managerial Practice only “Confusing message” and “Hypocrisy” are significantly and negatively correlated with “Employee Engagement”.

Keywords

• Wasteful Managerial Practices, Engagement, no Engagement, Disengagement

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Assegid Demissie Shishigu. The Link between Leaders' Wasteful Management Practices and Employees' Engagement (A Case study of Deber Tabor Hospital, Ethiopia). International Conference on Cloud Computing and eGovernance 2014. Vol. 1. Chennai: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, 2014. 86-91. Print.