Nexus Between Employees’ Retention and Organisational Sustainability Among Health Workers in Ondo State, Nigeria

Abstract

Employee retention is not just about keeping the competent staff; it also promotes continuity of workers to ensure services delivery and working environment is sustained. However, the study evaluated relationship between employees’ retention and organisational sustainability among health workers in Ondo State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Data were collected using structured questionnaire. The study adopted simple random sampling techniques to choose respondents for the study. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the socio-demographic information of the respondents while inferential was used to analyse the stated hypothesis. Specifically, pearson correlation was used to analyse the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level. The result of the study revealed that there was significant relationship between employees’ retention and organisational sustainability among health workers in Ondo State, Nigeria {r (307) = -.231^**, p < .01}. The study concluded that employees’ retention significantly relates to organisational sustainability among health workers in Ondo State. Therefore, it was recommended that selected health institution should regularly review the remuneration of their health workers to meet the competitive global standard.