INFLUENCE OF SAFETY PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KAKAMEGA
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This study sought to establish the influence of safety 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 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 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 showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between safety practices and employee retention in the health sector in the County Government of Kakamega. It was concluded that safety practices accounted for 58.6 percent of employee retention in the health sector in the County Government of Kakamega. The study recommended that organizations should proactively invest in occupation, health and safety programs in various departments. 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 study would provide a basis for future scholars, researchers and other stakeholders to use the results as a reference while also enabling researchers to carry out more investigation on other strategies that would increase 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.
Key Words: Health and Safety, Employee Retention, County Government of Kakamega
CITATION: Mulievi, R. N., & Wanyama K. W. (2019). Influence of capacity building practices on employee retention in the health sector in the County Government of Kakamega. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (2), 959 –969.
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