EFFECT OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN SACCOS IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY

Abstract

People in organizations remain the most valued asset an organisation has and their management is key to the organizations achievement. Acquisition and retention of skilled employees assume significant purpose in any organisation, since skills and knowledge of employees are paramount to organisation’s capability to be economically competitive. Managers in both service and production sectors do realize that it is the individual ultimately within an organisation that ensure its perpetual existence. This heavily depends on proper selection and recruitment that support retention of the employees in the organisation. This study therefore determined the effect of selection and recruitment practices on employee retention in SACCOs in Kakamega County. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. Proportionate random sampling technique was employed in the study. The target population was made up of 138 respondents out of which 103 were sampled. Research instrument reliability and validity was obtained by a test re-test method from the pilot study. The computed Cronbach’s Alpha reliability was 0.792 thus above accepted threshold of 0.7 in social research. Questionnaire was utilized to collect data. Collected data was the subjected to descriptive and inferential analyses with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20. Descriptive and inferential analyses were displayed using frequency distribution tables, frequencies, and percentages. The study found out that selection and recruitment accounts for 24.6% of the variability in employees retaining in SACCOs in Kakamega County, Kenya. Selection and recruitment had the greatest forecasting ability on the changes on employee retention. The study thus recommended that organizations who wish to retain their staff should put in place elaborate selection and recruitment practices. This is because the study found out that selection and recruitment results to high employees’ retention.

Key word: Recruitment, selection, employees’ retention, SACCOS

CITATION:  Miheso, P.,  Manyasi, J.,  & Wanjere, D. (2019). Effect of recruitment and selection practices on employee retention in SACCOS in Kakamega County. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (3), 356 – 360.