Effects of Management Decisions on Employees Turnover in Selected Local Government Councils in Imo State, Nigeria

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This study examined the effects of management decisions on employee turnover in selected Local Government Councils in Imo State 2015-2020. Five research questions guided the study and four null hypotheses were posited and tested. A cross-sectional survey research design was used for the study. The target population of the study was made up of 5,347 local government council employees in Imo State. A sample size of 386 respondents was targeted for the survey. The sample was drawn from 6 LGAs out of the 27 Local Government Councils in Imo State using stratified random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was developed on the bases of the objective of this study and was made up of 32-content items using 5-points likert scale model. The test-retest method of reliability of the instrument was used and the data obtained were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation that yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.85. Subsequently, a total number of 377 copies of questionnaire representing a response rate of 98% were returned and used for the analysis. Frequencies, mean scores, standard deviation, average mean scores, percentages and ranks were employed to present the data obtained from the respondents and analyze research question 1, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used to analyzed research questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 in order to establish the relationship between the variables while Simple Linear regression analysis was employed to test the four research hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that that better job offers elsewhere, poor compensation, poor working conditions (identified as hygiene factors) and autocratic supervisor management styles (a motivator) are the causes of employee turnover among Imo state local government council. That there are high extents of relationship between recruitment and selectio

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