Staff Turnover in Government Institutions in Uganda

Abstract

This study explores the causes and effects of employee turnover in government institutes of higher learning and to identify existing practices in human resource retention strategies. In this study, interviews with employees of Uganda Institute of Communication Technology (UICT) who left, senior, middle levels, lower level managers and available employees were carried out and staff exposed that turnover rates stand at 12% with main causes including low salaries are low, organizational instability, staff development, failure to maintain talented staff, lack of job security, lack of substantive principal and deputy principal, lack of access to salary loans and lack of proper promotion methods with internal recruitments being on a halt. This study indicates that managers need fast track the recruitment of the senior managers, reconsider the halting of internal recruitment, consider any form of salary increment and reconsider the 1 year contract extension and reinstate the 5 year contract