تأثير ممارسات إدارة الموارد البشرية على الاحتفاظ بالموظفين

Abstract

Abstract : The research aimed to study the impact of human resources; recruitment, training, salaries and bonuses on employees' retention. The research adopted the descriptive analytical approach to study the influencing relationship of the variables and to test its hypotheses. The research population constituted from all em-ployees working in the ministry of information affairs in Kingdom of Bahrain that reached a total of 803 employees. The research used a self-administered questionnaire as a research instrument, where 280 questionnaires were distributed to the targeted sample, while 268 questionnaires were collected constituting a response rate of 95.71%. The research conducted a pilot study through distributing questionnaire to 40 employees working in the ministry of information affairs and both validity and reliability were tested by Alpha Cronbach. The research findings revealed an impact of human resources on employees' retention, while wages and bonuses were the most impacting practice on employees' retention, followed by training and lastly recruitment. The research concluded that human resources department is not practicing publishing selection criteria for job applications, the ministry of information affairs lacks the culture of internal recruitment, and lacks assessing the training needs of employees. Despite this, there is an overall feeling of satisfaction for employees working in this ministry and they ex-pressed their desire in staying in this ministry. The research recommended the necessity to spread the culture of internal recruitment for those employees who possess job knowledge and skills in order to increase competition and thus in-crease their performance. Additionaly, the research suggested that its is crucial to design training programs based on analyzing employees' training needs and the importance of providing employees with poper support through engaging them in decision making and empowering them to start developing their professional ca-reer.