Assessment of Employee Turnover and Its Impact on Three Selected Government TVET Colleges in Addis Ababa

Abstract

This paper presents a study that determined assessment of employee turnover and its impact on the three selected government TVET Colleges in Addis Ababa. Nowadays, TVET institutions are considered as instruments of Accelerated and Sustained Development to end poverty at regional level in Addis Ababa specifically as well as national level at large. In order to achieve the above benefits from the sector, stable work environment in general and availability of experienced trainers’ specifically is a crucial aspect. The objective of this study is determining types of employee who many times terminate, their employment, causes for their termination and consequence of employee turnover on the organization. The research is designed as a descriptive research and data for this study was gathered through interview and questionnaire methods. The sample consisted of 35 current trainers, 5 ex-trainers and 9 management bodies. Finding of the study indicates that, trainer turnover is unsolved problem for the sector. Among the department in the institutions, Construction and Information Technology are faced with highly repetitive trainers’ turnover. Impact of trainer turnover is assessed by using four point Likert Scale and the average of 28.12 % and 27.47% of response indicates five basic variables have very high and high impact on the TVET institutions. Result shows that, in the selected TVET institutions, there are no exit-interview and special employee retention strategies and policies

Keywords :- Employee turnover, TVET College, Human resource management