Human Retention Essay

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Research problem

Human resource makes up the most vital resource in an organization. This resource is often negatively affected by a high employee turnover. A high employee turnover presents a number of challenges to an organization related to the need to train employee often and lack of high-level expertise (Cascio, 2018; Sandhya & Kumar, 2014). These challenges result to reduced productivity due to lack of experienced personnel, and the reduced profitability due to high training costs. Reduced employee retention bears the potential of decreasing competitive advantage of an organization and ultimately organizational shutdown (Sandhya & Kumar, 2014).

Research objectives

The aim of the research is to determine human resource strategies used is Quantech to deliver on quality improvement and realize project goals. Specifically, the objectives of the research are:

· To determine how lack employee turnover affects project quality and delivery in particular, project completion date

· To identify problems in the small business that contribute to poor employee retention

· To determine the how employee motivation affects retention

· To identify the status of the internal and external environment and how it influences human retention

· To determine the most appropriate human retention and motivation strategies for Quantech.


Methodology

Based on the aim of the research, a descriptive research methodology is used. A descriptive research design is considered to be best suited for this research as it helps in describing the various aspects of a phenomenon (Kothari, 2004). The descriptive research will utilize qualitative interview for data collection.

Population and sampling

The current study seeks to dissect the issue of human resource retention with a particular focus on small businesses. The target population of this study, therefore, is small businesses. For the purpose of this paper, small business is used to refer to organizations that have not more than twenty employees. The research population would be the American based small business mainly on the basis of a similar political and policy environment.

The study will be carried out at Quantech Inc. The organization is chosen based on its convenient location to the researcher. Secondly, the organization is selected based on the already established contacts within the organization thus an almost guaranteed access authorization.

Research instrument - Interview

Data for this study will be collected through face-to-face interviews. Pre-designed interviews questioned will be used to….....

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to identify the status of the internal and external environment and how it influences human retention. Description of Participants In total, six individuals participated in the qualitative interview. All of the participants were randomly selected from Quantech Services Inc., a small enterprise offering superior quality consulting services and products in the following areas: Cyber Security, Program Management, Financial and Cost Management, and Engineering Services, to governmental clients such as the DoD (defense department).The personnel specifically emanated from the company’s project managers, the human resources division and also individuals constituting a project team. The obtained responses were read and analyzed numerous times to ascertain themes.… Continue Reading...

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