Recruitment and employee retention strategy for AACT
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2018-04
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Autism Awareness Care and Training (AACT) is an NGO which seeks to create
an inclusive environment for children who are faced with Autism Disorder Spectrum.
The organization achieves its goals by providing training activities for the children in
three different levels; lower, primary and upper level.
A needs assessment conducted revealed that most of the employees voluntarily
leave the organization because of reasons such as low pay, poor management-employee
relationship, lack of career growth and development among many others. The assessment
also revealed that most of the employees are employed because of their personal
relationship with members of the management team and this contributes to the high
turnover on the job. Hence, the need to have a rigorous recruitment process and measures
to retain employees is necessary for AACT.
Extant related literature revealed that high employee turnover affects the
productivity of every organization and it comes with both direct and indirect cost.
However, turnover becomes a good thing for a company if they tend to lose the unskilled
labor to create room for more skilled labor, and managers also play a key role in
attracting the right type of people in every organization. This study proposes a solution to
help reduce labor turnover as well as retain employees for a longer period on the job in
Autism Awareness Care and Training (AACT). The solution seeks to improve the
recruitment and selection process by suggesting a systematic approach proposed by
Breaugh and Starke (2000). Retention measures such as creating an intentional
communication channel between employees and management, health need support and
having staff recognition day are proposed to keep workers longer on the job.
Description
Applied project submitted to the Department of Business Administration, Ashesi University, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, April 2018
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Autism Awareness Care and Training, AACT, Ghana, NGO