Relationship Between Career Development And Employee Retention In Public Sector Organizations: Implication For A Timely Intervention
Relationship Between Career Development And Employee Retention In Public Sector Organizations: Implication For A Timely Intervention
Abstract
This study investigates relationship between career development and employee retention in the public sector: implication for a timely intervention. A case study of Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc Sokoto (Sokoto Cement). It is couched that employees‟ job satisfaction is dependent on career development opportunities in their respective organizations in the public sector. Employees agreed they may leave their organization if they feel lack of career development activities. Private sectors are practicing all career development activities as they want to increase employee’s job satisfaction which ultimately leads to higher work efficiency and productivity. The study finds high efforts by management to attain and satisfy as well as attract existed employees
Chapter One
General Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
Career development and employee retention are key strategic considerations for all organization regardless of size, sector, market or profile. The development of the capacity and capability of the organizations managers has a fundamental impact on efficiency, effectiveness, morale and profitability of an organization. High performing organizations increasingly pay close attention to the validity of their recruitment practices and are becoming equally vigilant about developing their employees in order to ensure they achieve optimum performance both in the present and the future. This is confirmed by Mwenebirinda, (1998) who acknowledges that employee performance can be enhance via training that addresses identified weaknesses. One of the most significance developments in the public sector in recent times is the increasing importance given to human resources. Torrington and Hall (1987) agree and point out that due to their use of labour intensive activities and increasing competition within the sectors, financial services in general and industry in particular have embark on considerable investment in career development. A career refers to all of the jobs that people hold during their working lives. Career planning is the process by which employees plan their career goals and paths. Career development refers to all technical and managerial skills employees acquire to achieve their career plans. Employee retention is an act of keeping or retaining workers in an organization for increases turnover. Employee retention can means how long an individual has stayed with an employer, or it can means how long a person has been attached to the labour force. Employee retention can be represented by a simple statistic ( for example, a retention rate 80% usually indicates that an organization kept 80% of its employees given period). However, many consider career development as relating to the effort by which employers attempt to retain employee in their workforce. In this sense, retention becomes the strategies rather than the outcome.
Career development is considered important factor in employee retention, organization has the incentives to decrease employee turnover in form of training & development of workers. According to Clark (2001), organizations are intensification development for talented employees, through proficiency analysis, input on employee interests, need development and multisource appraisal of capabilities and formulate plans for action. Wetland (2003), suggested that firms and individual made investment on human capital in the form of development. Career development enhances the skills, organization needs to start training and development programme. Career development provides specialized technique and skills to employee that helps to rectify deficiencies in employee performance, and provide the skills and abilities to employee which will be needed in the organization in the future. Development of skill consists of improving interpersonal communication; technologies, problem solving and basic literacy, the development of people, their competencies and the process of development of the total organization are the main concerns of organization to enhance retention. Stone and Freemen (1992) list special training for career development and employee retention undertaken by supervisors as: Career Planning and Development for personnel. The retention of talented employees is an advantage to an organization because employees’ knowledge and skills are central to a company’s ability to economically competitive. Employee retention becomes increasingly important to organization because periodic labour shortages can reduce high performance employee. Thus workers are searching for better employment opportunities and organizations are seeking to increase productivity of their career path within an organization to move them to remain in the organization to achieve their personal career goals.
In spite of the fact that, there are challenges in relationship between employee retention and career development, HR executive find that attracting and retaining is a problem because when employee leaves the job, organization lost not only employee. But also lost the customers and clients who were loyal with the talent is a problem because of bounded rationality, particularly of cultural and social norms associated with the country (Metcalfe 2008). Organizations are employees, knowledge of production, current projects, competitor and past history of the organization. Ineffective career development is a problem that affects the retention of employees in the sense that organizations quality of served and turnover would reduce which may stop them not to retain employees. Unwanted turnover due to stress, how job satisfaction, unsatisfactory working condition and inadequate benefits may chase employee not to stay in an organization.
Organizations make enormous efforts to attract handfuls of employees and sustain them in the organization. In today’s business scenario only high salary and designation is not significant for employees to retain them in the organization, but career development also play important role in their retention. Career development in the organizations helps to retain the talented employees because it gives imperative outcomes to employer and employees. To gain and maintain competitive advantage, organizations required talented and productive employees and these employees need development to enhance and cultivate their competencies (Prince, 2005). According to Silbert (2005), well skilled and talented workers may easily find good job, position and workplace elsewhere; however the effective way for retaining these talented employees is to enhance friendly and close working environment and to promote leader support. Career development provides opportunity to test employees abilities and providing level of performance to enhance employees’ capability and make them to stay in the organization.
This study provides an assessment of relationship between career development and employee retention in the public sector.
1.2 Statement of the Research Problem
In any public sector organization, career development has become necessary to serve as a way of improving employee talent and retention of employee for the achievements of organizational objectives. In spite of the role such career development has not adequately enhanced employee retention in the public sector, this is as a result of poor training and development in a public sector. Inadequate organizational capabilities and the organizational competencies also affect career development and employee retention. This is because organizational capabilities and organizational competencies need right kind of human resource in order to achieve organizational goal. As argued by Prahald and Hame (2000), organizations that acknowledge and direct their organizational competencies efficiently competes more productively and effectively. Retaining employees is the key issue in current business environment. Without well incorporated staff in the organization and putting their greatest effort, success can never be long term. Problems existing in the personnel or in a sense human capital, have unforeseen influences that cause troubles with training, planning and decision making. So it clarifies the reason why employees leave the organizations. Cole (2000) stated that employees are more likely to stay with organizations that give them the sense of pride and they will work to maximum potentials due to some rationales as work climate, rewards, opportunities to develop and grow and the work life balance (Madiha et al, 2009). Major cost of organizations is due to more employees quitting the job, these quit rates raise labor costs and lower organizational performance (Norsworthy & Zabala 1986 cited in Batt, Colvin & Keefe, 2002). Several factors e.g presence of challenging and meaningful work, opportunities for development and growth, level of empowerment, responsibility and managerial integrity and coordination affect the employee retention in various organization (Birtet., 2004). Walker (2001) determined that compensation and appreciation of the task accomplished, challenging and meaningful work climate, learning opportunities, and strong relationship with workers, better work life balance, better coordination within the organization, are the key factor that support retention. Factor such as poor rewards, poor style of leadership, lack of development opportunities, poor working environmental conditions directly affect employee retention (Hytter, 2007).
1.3 Research Questions
- The lead question here is to know if there is any effective relationship between career development and employee retention in the public sector?
- Do ineffective organizational capabilities and capacities affect career development and employee retention in Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc Sokoto?
- Does poor rewards and poor style of leadership affect employee retention in the public sector?
1.4 Objective of the Study
- The major objective is to examine whether career development necessitate effective employee retention in the public sector. Subsidiary questions incude:
- To determine how ineffective organizational capabilities and capacities affect career development and employee retention in Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc Sokoto.
- To ascertain how poor rewards and poor style of leadership affect employee retention in the public sector
1.5 Significance of the Study
This study will be of great significance to public sector organization and the policy makers to be used as a measure for career development and employee retention in the organization. The result of this study would hopefully be significant as they would enable both the management and labour union to better understand how career development could be ensured to inspire employee to increase and sustain productivity.
Finally, the study could serve as a future reference within the academic community because a research will, at a point only address an aspect, and then ignite a future research interest or point to a future research direction.
1.6 Scope and Limitations of the Study
This research work focuses on the relationship between career development and employee retention in the public sector using Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc Sokoto as the case study. It is also to cover the period of five years from 2010-2015.
In this research work, there are many constraints that serve as limitation to the output of the study. One of the limitations is time frame within which it has to be completed and submitted. This also coupled with academic and personal pressure. Financial limitation is another factor imposing a big constraint in conducting the research work effectively.
1.7 Scheme of Chapters
This research work is undertaken to assess the relationship between career development and employee retention in the public sector using Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc Sokoto as a case study comprises of five chapters.
- Chapter one is general introduction which includes: Background to the study, Statement of research problem, Research questions, Objectives of the study, hypotheses, significance of the study, scope and limitations, definition of terms; and scheme of chapters.
- Chapter two is literature review which includes: conceptual and theoretical frameworks.
- Chapter three is research methodology which includes: Introduction, research design, population, sample and sampling techniques, method of data collection and instrument; and method of data presentation and analysis.
- Chapter four is data presentation and analysis which includes: introduction, analysis on interpretation of data, and testing of hypotheses.
- Chapter five is summary, conclusion and recommendations.
Chapter Five
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations.
5.1 Summary
This study investigates relationship between career development and employee retention in the public sector: implication for a timely intervention. A case study of Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc Sokoto (Sokoto Cement).
Today’s employees are more career conscious than ever. They are demanding more in terms of personal growth and development. Organizations that fail to allow employees to meet their individual needs will be losing valued employees. A Career Development Program seeks to match to needs of the employee with those of the organization with the major components being counseling and training. Counseling provides employees with the opportunity to define career goals and to create plans within the context of organizational realities. Training allows the employee to develop and acquire knowledge, skills and abilities required to enhance his/her current job and prepares them for future job opportunities. The finding shows that it is essential that organizations place a high value on career development. This will allow employees to fulfill their career needs, and organizations will benefit by retaining a greater number of their competent and qualified employees.
When employees‟ intention to leave the organization was analyzed then respondents rated career development as most important factor that can also be main cause of satisfaction of employees. The findings of this study support intention to leave the organization can be lack of career development, because employees don’t want to stay at one job for life time. So majority of employees agreed to leave the organization without climbing the ladder of career development.
5.2 Conclusion
It is couched that employees‟ job satisfaction is dependent on career development opportunities in their respective organizations in the public sector. Employees agreed they may leave their organization if they feel lack of career development activities. Private sectors are practicing all career development activities as they want to increase employee’s job satisfaction which ultimately leads to higher work efficiency and productivity. The study finds high efforts by management to attain and satisfy as well as attract existed employees.
Given the cost implication and destructive tendencies of turnover to organizations it is important to identify the intention to leave the organization. So that satisfaction strategies can be suggested to improve the organizations in order to satisfy employees. Majority of employees were in favor regarding mentoring, counseling and coaching programs as they will undergo these activities they would be able to know and also discuss regarding their careers to enhance. And their steps to move forward would be easy throughout their career ladder. Hence to increase satisfaction, organization should focus on employee’s career progression. There should be some career development programs in which management should discuss employee’s career plans with them.
5.3 Recommendations
- Organizations should make training and development of their employees a continuous activity.
- Career development in organizations should provide a chance for employees to clarify their individual goals and identify what paths they can take within the organization to reach their objectives and earn valued rewards.
- Organizations should have to develop the knowledge management practices to enhance awareness regarding career development, sharing knowledge regarding career plans, career counseling and employee retention
- Career development should be directly linked to the satisfaction of employee in a way that employees feel value from their supervisors and organization as their goals are being focused and achieved, they get recognition because along with their own goals organizational goals are also being satisfied
- That capacity management should be enhanced to incorporate relevant trainings based on skills acquisition and utilization and such trainings programmes should be adequately sequenced according to assessed needs.
- Top management should improve working conditions within the organisation. The working environment should be conducive for employee’s health and safety in the department
- Top management should reduce staff turnover in order to improve organisational productivity by retaining the best employees.
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