The relationship between employee retention management practices and voluntary labour turnover in five star hotels in Nairo
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Date
2009Author
Lepilale, Jeddy Catherine
Type
ThesisLanguage
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Previous studies suggest that organizations with effective employee retention
management practices tended to have low levels of voluntary labour turnover. This study
seeks to investigate whether this applies to the five star hotels in Nairobi Kenya.
The study conducted a census survey of all the 11 five star hotels in Nairobi, data was
collected through questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics and the
pearson product-moment correlation found in the SPSS package. The main objectives of
the study was to establish employee retention practices used by the five star hotels to
retain critical employees and to determine the relationship between employee retention
practices and voluntary labour turnover in this category of hotels.
The findings of the study revealed that all the five star hotels made efforts to retain
critical employees, however the retention practices employed to do so were minimal. On
the other hand the level of voluntary labour turnover was found to be low. The study
revealed a fairly weak and insignificant relationship between employee retention
management practices and voluntary labour turnover, which means that the low levels
voluntary labour turnover could be as a result of other factors other than retention
practices employed. It is recommended that further studies be carried out to determine
other reasons that could be contributing to the low voluntary labour turnover.
Limitations and challenges encountered included time constraint and lack of cooperation
from some respondents who were not willing to share information as they considered it
confidential. It was therefore not possible to collect data from the whole population
which was already small.
Publisher
University of Nairobi School Of Business, University Of Nairobi