Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of group work on employees’ performance in case of Amhara Saying woreda Administrative pool in South Wollo Zone Amhara national regional state. The study employed both a quantitative and qualitative research method was employed. The study included 14 sectors of Amhara Sayint Woreda administrative pool. There were a total of 66 formal groups having 219 employees and 14 head officers, a total of 233 employees. from these total employees 142(64.8%) of them were taken as a sample by using stratified sampling for 57 groups of administrative pool employees’ and purposive sampling for 14 head officers of Amhara sayint woreda administrative pool. This study employed a combination of tools as data collection instruments. Document review, questionnaire and interview were used to gather the relevant data from the respondents. So that, questionnaires were employed to collect data from employees’ and semi structured interviews (individual interview) used to collect data from head officers of Amhara Sayint woreda administrative pool. Both descriptive and inferential statistical tools were used which includes percentage, frequency, correlation analysis and regression. Moreover the data gathered through open ended interviews and it was analyzed qualitatively through narration for the purpose of triangulation. Therefore based on the analysis made, the findings of this study revealed by the descriptive analysis, the average employees’ performance is 3.7897,this refers to the performance of the employees is not such interested and the inferential statistics shows that group cohesiveness, group size, group leadership have very significant effect on the performance of employees of public sectors of Amhara Sayint woreda administrative pools, whereas groupthink and group communication have moderate relationship with that of employee performance. The absence of group work in Amhara Sayint pool was a challenge. The employees have poor understanding on group work. In addition the head officers did not committed to work with group work, so that they don’t encourage and reward group works. Therefore, it was recommended that leaders should have an interest to do with group work and create a positive attitude about group work.
