Factors influencing employee’s retention in private sectors: A case study of Association of Tanzania Tobacco Traders (ATTT) – Kahama
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2016
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Mzumbe University
Abstract
This study aimed to find out the factors influencing employee’s retention in Private sector; a case study of Association of Tanzania Tobacco Traders in Kahama District. Specifically the study addressed the following three specific objectives; firstly, to identify the employee’s retention strategies employed by ATTT in Kahama District, secondly, to determine the benefits of employee’s retention strategies employed by ATTT in Kahama District, and thirdly, to identify the challenges facing ATTT in implementation of employee’s retention strategies. A case study research design was adopted and a total sample of 50 respondents was consulted. Purposive sampling and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain the required sample. The researcher used questionnaire, interview, observation, and documentary review to collect data; where the collected data were analysed through Statistical Package for Social Science version 20. The findings of the study revealed that, there are various employee’s retention strategies employed, but the common mentioned by the respondents in ATTT were; provision of bonuses and overtime allowances, training and development, salary increment, promotion opportunity, and good working environment. Through the well practices and implementation of those employee’s retention strategies, ATTT achieved various benefits such as; employees may stay in an organization for a long period of time, employees are encouraged and motivated to work, efficiency and productivity, and less supervision. Furthermore, the following were the challenges facing ATTT in implementation of employee’s retention strategies such as; costs to the organization, delaying of the bonuses and overtime allowances, employees may leave organization after training, and lack of training need assessment. The various solutions on the challenges facing ATTT were suggested as follows; bonuses and overtime allowances should be provided timely, to have the policies to protect or guide employees to leave organization after training, training need assessment should be conducted properly in time, organization should budget, plan and monitor the organization costs.
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A research report submitted to the School of Public Administration and Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for award of the degree of Master of Science in Human Resource Management of
Mzumbe University
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Employee retention, Labour turnover, Career development, Retention in public sectors, Tobacco traders-Tanzania
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APA