THE CONTRIBUTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL ASSET UTILIZATION ON PROJECT SUCCESS: The case of Save the Children International Ethiopia Country office

Abstract

The general objective of this research was to assess the practices and problems of Utilizing organizational Assets for Project Success in Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office and to give scholarly recommendations for future effective service and the achievement of the stated vision. By considering this, cross sectional descriptive survey research design employed. To conduct the research and attain the objectives of the research both quantitative and qualitative research approach used. To be effective in this research and give a relevant generalization for the practices and problems of Organizational Asset Utilization to the selected Save the Children Ethiopia Country Office the researcher take as a study population all Three (Supply Chain, Finance, Operation) Departments staffs of SCI which related to Asset management and Project management Tasks from the Department Directors to Officers. From the total population of 172 staffs of the Departments 150 selected by using simple random sampling and proportional representative Formula. To get the relevant information from sample respondents different data gathering instruments were employed mainly closed ended questionnaire, interview and documents analysis. To analyze the collected data SPSS 21 software used for the entire closed ended questions. In this effect, average mean, Mode, correlation and regression employed to data analysis. The strategies for Organizational Asset Utilizations not integrated and well performed. The study also pointed out that Organizational Business unit for Asset Management have an inconsistent leadership and engagement on Asset utilization Process that does not properly support and promote a Project Success in Save the Children Ethiopia Country office.