Assessment of working culture in the case of central highland of Ethiopia
Keywords:
working day, religious practice, Ethiopian orthodox, Ethiopian calendar, economic activitiesAbstract
In this paper we identified factors affecting working days and variation of working days among different religion followers and different economic activities taking 384 samples from the study area. Data collected through questionnaires and in addition key informant interview conducted with religious leader considering their religious institution teaches corresponding follower and why some days are celebrated and documents related with national calendar are reviewed. The resulted presented with different factors like religious practice, national calendar, political reasons working culture contributed for the low days devoted to economic activities per month. The finding indicated that less mean monthly working day is 20.5 in Ethiopian Orthodox Religion followers, the mean monthly working day in the rural area is less than the urban area, Monthly working day in the agricultural activity is less than any others economic activities in the study area scoring 16.76 days per month although agriculture employs 65.62% of the countries labor force.
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