Human Resource Policies and Employee Turnover in Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda.
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2011-11
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Kampala International University, college of Economics and management-masters of business administration
Abstract
The tendency of teaching staff to leave their job and look for jobs somewhere else motivated
me to undertake this research. Observations from higher institutions of learning show that they
have instability of workforce which lead to courses interruption in the middle of semesters, the
use of unreliable visiting staff that jeopardize the quality of education and lack of inconsistence
in teaching. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of implementation of
human resource policies and employees’ turnover in Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda.
With a population size of 150 people, Slovan’s formula and simple sampling technique were
used and a sample size of 109 respondents for this research was determined. Questionnaires to
collect data were distributed to respondents across all faculties and administration departments
at the institute. Only 102 questionnaires were returned and its data analyzed using SPSS. The
data was presented in frequency tables and interpreted using mean index and its corresponding
rank.
The findings showed that there is a good human resource policies at the institute and it is well
implemented as well. Though the staff is confident about it, it was revealed that it could not
prevent them from leaving unless if working condition changes. The institute staff showing
intentions to leave while there is a good and well implemented human resource policies implies
that there is no significant relationship between implementation of human resource policies and
staff turnover at the institute.
In conclusion, an established level of employees’ turnover at the institute does not caused by
the content and effectiveness of implementation of the human resource policies, rather it is due
to pull factor that is outside the institute — better pay somewhere else — that cause employees
either having intentions to leave or leave the institute.
It is recommended that in mitigating the intention to leave the job and curb undesired turnover
at the institute, the institute is to: provide more non financial incentives to its employees; offer
more recognition to staff contributions and instill the behavior of conducting the end of
employment interview to establish real reasons to why employees leave. For the government, it
is to look at possibilities to revise the compensation package and other benefits to those
working in higher institutions of learning and provision of opportunities for further studies, job
stability as well as job security are not be undermined. Finally to understand real state of affairs
on the issue turnover at the institute, more studies are recommended on specific faculties and
across ranks to establish factors other than implementation of human resource policies that
cause people to leave and establish what ought to be done to curb undesired turnover at the
institute.
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A Thesis Presented to the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Administration'
Keywords
Human Resource Policies, Employee Turnover, Kigali Institute of Education,