Relationship between Capacity Building and Employee’ Retention among Public Institutions in Rwanda, Gatsibo District

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Relationship between Capacity Building and Employee’ Retention among Public Institutions in Rwanda, Gatsibo District

Emmanuel Turatsinze¹, Thomas K Tarus^2
1Masters student, Graduate School University of Kigali-Rwanda
²Lecturer, Graduate School, University of Kigali-Rwanda

Abstract: Public institutions need to be aware of their employees need in more realistically towards keeping their human resources up-to-date. Managers need to pay special attention to core functions of human resource management through the employee capacity building as this plays an important role in the organization. The general objective of the study was to analyze the relationship between capacity building and employee retention. The study was anchored on knowledge Based Theory and theory of social exchange. The study adopted descriptive research design while the sample size was 74 employees. The study used questionnaire as data collection instruments and analyzed using inferential statistics. The results revealed that employee empowerment and career development had a positive and significant relationship on employees’ retention (β = 0.273, p<0.05; β = 0.085; p<0.05). Thus, the study concluded that the predictor variables enhance retention of employees in the organization. The research added new knowledge on how capacity building contributes to the employees’ retention and also forms a foundation of further research. The study suggests on the improvement of employee empowerment and career development as a way of improving retention rate of employees.

Key Words: Employee Retention, Employee Empowerment and Career Development.

I. INTRODUCTION

Over the last years, most countries have established capacity building institutions for public sector employees, each with various differing structural factors. Capacity building approach is being used in several institutions whether they are locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to give their employees an opportunity of improving their knowledge and skills so that cope with ever ending changing working environment. Many international organizations such USAID and other NGOs helped governments to improve and strengthen the governmental institutions through the capacity development programs (Adegoke et al., 2013). Capacity building is a crucial component for successful of public institutions and retains employees for maximum time or until their completion of career. If one employee leaves the organization, then it became very difficult for the organization to immediate fulfill that position. Firm has to hire the new employee after fulfilling all the procedure. There is no doubt that organizations worldwide are striving for success and out

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