Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to examine the contribution of human resource recruitment on labour turnover in Kabale Municipality. The study was to examine the role of human resource recruitment in Kabale Municipality, to find out the causes of labour turnover in Kabale Municipality and to examine the benefits of human resource recruitment on labour turnover in Kabale Municipality. The research adopted a case study design supported by mixed research approaches. The study used a sample size of fifty respondents selected using purposive and sample random sampling techniques. Questionnaires, interviews and documentary review were used in data collection. Data presentation was done using frequency tables and percentages. The study established that recruitment helps an organisation to obtain the right staff thereby helping the organisation to meet its short-and long term objectives. The study found out that labour turnover in local governments in Uganda with no exception of Kabale Municipality is influenced by poor working conditions, lack of benefits available to employees, high labour demand in other organisations, job dissatisfaction and poor remuneration. From the findings, the study concluded a significant positive relationship between recruitment and labour turnover in local governments. The study recommended that local governments should carry out both internal and external recruitment of staff to attract competent staff that will lead to improved organisational performance. Local governments in Uganda should provide a better physical working environment by taking the needs of individual workers into consideration which would enable their workers to work more comfortably and efficiently and avoid leaving local governments.
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