EFFECT OF PARTICIPATION IN WORK DECISION MAKING PROCESS ON TURNOVER AMONG NURSING EMPLOYEES AT NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITALS IN KENYA Nyaribo
In Kenya, health is one of the components of delivering Kenya's Vision 2030's social pillar given the critical role it plays in maintaining the healthy and skilled workforce necessary to drive the economy. National referral hospitals (NRH) are at the apex of the public health sector and play a critical role in its success. However, these hospitals have been witnessing high voluntary nurse turnovers resulting in nurse shortages hence adversely affecting the quality of services and products offered to clients. The study specifically sought to establish effect of participation in work decision making process on turnover among nursing employees at national referral hospitals in Kenya. One hypothesis was formulated in line with the research objective. The study adopted mixed methods research design and used simple random sampling to select a sample of 315 respondents from the 1779 registered nurses working at the 12 national referral hospitals in Kenya. The unit of analysis was national referral hospitals in Kenya while the unit of observation was registered nurse managers or their equivalent in charge of wards or units at national referral hospitals in Kenya. Chronbach's alpha was used to check on the reliability of the study instrument and content validity of the study was also confirmed by the researcher's supervisors who are experts. Collection of primary data was done by use of structured questionnaires that were self administered, while secondary data was sourced from relevant text books, empirical journals and websites among others. Positive responses were received as valid from 261 respondents out of the sampled 315 respondents giving an 83.2 response rate. The data collected and Analysed with the help of the SPSS programme, version 22. The analyzed data was presented using frequency tables, pie charts and bar graphs. Hypothesis was tested within 95% level of confidence interval or 5% level of significance and analysis of variance (ANOVA) ,Correlation analysis and Regression analysis was undertaken.The study found out that participation in work decision making process contributes negatively but significantly to nursing employee turnover. International Journal of Human Resources and Procurement. Volume 8 issue 7 (2019) http:/www.ijsse.org ISSN 2307 6305 Page ii