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Relationship between Capacity Building and Employee’ Retention among Public Institutions in Rwanda, Gatsibo District

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  • Emmanuel Turatsinze

    (Masters student, Graduate School University of Kigali-Rwanda)

  • Thomas K Tarus

    (Lecturer, Graduate School, University of Kigali-Rwanda)

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Public institutions need to be aware of their employees need in more realistically towards keeping their human resources up-to-date. Managers need to pay special attention to core functions of human resource management through the employee capacity building as this plays an important role in the organization. The general objective of the study was to analyze the relationship between capacity building and employee retention. The study was anchored on knowledge Based Theory and theory of social exchange. The study adopted descriptive research design while the sample size was 74 employees. The study used questionnaire as data collection instruments and analyzed using inferential statistics. The results revealed that employee empowerment and career development had a positive and significant relationship on employees’ retention (β = 0.273, p

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  • Emmanuel Turatsinze & Thomas K Tarus, 2021. "Relationship between Capacity Building and Employee’ Retention among Public Institutions in Rwanda, Gatsibo District," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(08), pages 427-430, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:5:y:2021:i:08:p:427-430
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