Employee Retention Strategies: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives in Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (KNSUBEB)

Abstract

Securing and retaining competent, skilled and motivated employees
played a key role in the growth and survival of any organization. One
of the biggest challenges facing Kano state Universal Basic Education
Board (KNSUBEB) today is effective retention strategies of its
manpower. The purpose of this paper is to examine the issues,
challenges and perspectives of retention strategies in KNSUBEB. This
study adopted documentary research. Data were obtained from purely
secondary sources from circulars, publications, journals, magazines
and government gazettes especially as it relates to Kano SUBEB. This
method was justified on the premise that information needed for the
study is sufficiently available to provide a reasonable ground and
arrive at valid conclusion. The study discovered inter-alia that there is
strong relationship between retention strategies adopted by
management of KNSUBEB and teachers performance. Issue like poor
recruitment process, poor compensation packages, delayed promotion,
mismatch in training opportunities were the major challenges affecting
employee retention strategies in KNSUBEB. It is therefore
recommended that the management of KNSUBEB should give more
priority to merit based recruitment, issues of political patronage and
party affiliations that characterized recruitment process should be
jettisoned. Compensation packages should be improved to cope with
current economic realities, Promotion should be timely as at when due,
and training opportunities should be given based on training needs
assessment.