Human Resource Data Management Analytics and Employee Retention in Ghana

Abstract

Organizations, irrespective of size and location, are considering retaining employees for organizational sustainability. With all the challenges that employee retention poses, it has become necessary for scholars to research the factors that initiate employees to leave for other jobs. Employees are the intellectual capital behind the success of any organization. In pursuit of strategies to retain employees, the study aimed to assess HR data management analytics and employee retention in the public health sector in Ghana, specifically in teaching hospitals. A positivist research philosophy was deployed, which helped the study to formulate and test the hypothesis. Data was collected through structured questionnaires with a clustered sample of 240 through a single-stage sampling. The study drew from Galbraith's (1973) organizational information theory. The study found that human resource data management plays a role in employee retention through its quality, digital transformation, accessibility and confidentiality for decision-making and therefore recommends that management should pick the battles that are related to these since more insights can be drawn from this to curb the issues of low retention. The study also recommends that management invest in technological advancement where employees will be upskilled to be at par globally in the health sector.