EXAMINATION OF LABOUR TURNOVER AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO POLYTECHNIC ADMINISTRATORS IN THE TAMALE POLYTECHNIC

Abstract

Labour turnover and its adverse effects on institutional productivity remains a major challenge to many tertiary institutions in Ghana and the polytechnics in particular. This study looks at labour turnover and its implications on the Polytechnic Administrators in Tamale Polytechnic. The key issues the study considers include; factors that contribute to labour turn-over in Tamale Polytechnic; the associated cost of labour turn-over on the Polytechnic; employee motivation that will prevent staff of the Polytechnic from leaving for other institutions; and the implications of labour turn-over on the Polytechnic. The study uses descriptive survey as a research design with a convenient sample size of 120 respondents. Purposive and systematic sampling techniques were used to select the respondents and questionnaire also being the research instrument of the study. The study discovers most of the employees in the Polytechnic were not satisfied with the motivational factors in place at the Polytechnic thereby contributing to the high labour turnover in the institution. It also leads to the realization that labour turnover has negative implications on productivity and efficient institutional management of the Polytechnic. In view of these, the study came to the conclusion that employee motivation factors, if properly identified and put in place by management of the Polytechnic, could lead to a drastic reduction in labour turnover situations to reduce its associated cost and negative implications on the institution. It is, therefore, the recommendation of the study that staff development policies be taken seriously since it has the potential of reducing labour in the Polytechnic. It is further recommended that management of the Polytechnic should put in place prudent employee motivation factors to ensure that staff are adequately motivated to stay and work in the polytechnic.