Leadership Effectiveness in Public Service Organizations of

In Ethiopian context, the government has shown committeement to improve public service leadership by launching different initiatives under the scope of CSRP. Public service leaders at different level advocate transformational agenda to achieve growth and transformational plan (GTP) goals. However, public service organizations ’ performance highlighted a number of implementation deficiencies in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and a leadership practice has not been up to expectations. Therefore, the objective of this article was to investigate the extent of leadership effectiveness in Ethiopian public service organizations at federal and regional levels. The study was employed focusing on the top management sub component of the reform program by evaluating its projects to what degree it enables /transforms the public organizations to be efficient and effective. The descriptive survey by using mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) research approach was applied. The categories of respondents were from demand side and supply sides. Among the nine regions of the country, two regions and one city administrations were selected. Analysis of documents, interviews and responses to both open and close-ended questions was made using SPSS software. The key findings revealed that the changes in Ethiopia enabled to create demanding society for improved services. However, leadership effectiveness is not at its required level to transform public service organizations in terms of striving fo