INFLUENCE OF REWARD PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KAKAMEGA
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The Healthcare sector has suffered massive strikes and demonstration by the professionals and trade unions representing workers. This study sought to establish the influence of reward practices on employee retention in the health sector in the County Government of Kakamega with a view of proposing a mechanism to manage employee retention. The study was anchored on Equity Theory. The study employed a descriptive survey design. The target population was 1,153 health workers in Kakamega County drawn from 11 health facilities and a sample size of 297 respondents was used. The Data was collected by the questionnaires which was the main instrument to collect primary data. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive inferential statistics (correlations and regression analyses). The results between reward practices and employee retention illustrated a positive and significant relationship between the two. It was concluded that reward practices accounted for 51.5 percent of employee retention in the health sector in the County Government of Kakamega. The study findings may help to streamline the retention of staff in the health sector in Kakamega County by providing strategies of employee retention. The County health sector HRM department would gain from the findings of the study which would further enhance their skills in handling challenges of employee retention and understand factors which may have led to lack of employee retention.
Keywords: Reward Practices, Employee Retention, County Government of Kakamega
CITATION: Mulievi, R. N., & Juma D. (2019). Influence of reward practices on employee retention in the health sector in the County Government of Kakamega. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (2), 936 –947.
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