Browsing by Author "Abdullah, A.S."

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    Alternative work arrangements in Nigeria: Is it avoidable by modern organizations?
    (Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria., 2020-07-11) Abogunrin, A.P.; Aremu, N.S.; Abdullah, A.S.; Lawal, A.T.
    Alternative work arrangement is growing in use across countries of the world because of population increase on a daily basis due to migration. This has created imbalance in workers' survivability across the globe. Thus, this study examined the effect of level of acceptability of alternative work arrangements on the practice of alternative work arrangements as necessity among city workers. The study employed a survey research with 121 staff of Globacom Telecommunication Company in Lagos metropolis. 121 sample size was determined using Taro Yamane [1967] formula for estimating sample size from the population of 174 staff housed at their headquarter, while correlation was used to analyse the relationship between the variables. The correlation result [0.591] revealed a strong positive relationship between level of acceptability of alternative work arrangements and its practice in workplaces with p = 0.001 indicating that level of acceptability of alternative work arrangements is significant on organizations' survival making its practice as a necessity. In conclusion, it is a necessity for modern organizations to start thinking of alternative work arrangements in their operation as an unavoidable work schedule and the study therefore recommended that alternative work arrangements should be introduced into workplace practice with commensurate infrastructural development from all stakeholders so that organizations can stay alive and not lose their talents to competitions.
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    Succession planning and employee retention in private health care in Lagos State, University of Port Harcourt
    (Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2019-12-06) Aremu, N. S.; Abdullah, A.S.; Abogunrin, A.P.; Bamidele, A.G.
    The sustainability of private hospitals in Nigeria has become a major concern as the issue of success planning is imperative in the health sector. Succession planning is a vital tool for guaranteeing employee retention and lasting sustainability in the private health care. However, the toughest challenge for most organizations is how to effect a well-designed successor without altering the organizational continuity. The study objective was to investigate the impact of succession planning on employee retention in private hospitals in Lagos. The research design employed for this study is survey method and the population comprises selected private hospitals in Ikoyi, Maryland Lagos and 226 participants were chosen through simple stratified random sampling. A total of 226 structured questionnaires were completed and returned. The data collected were analyzed using both Ordinary Least Squares Regression and Correlation with the aid of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS 25.0 version), to test the hypotheses developed for the study. The findings of the study revealed that succession planning from career development have positive significant relationship with employee retention at (0.925) this denotes 92.5% variation on employee retention and management involvernent have significant relationship with employee retention at (0.883) which indicates the value of 88.3% in employees' retention at 5% level of significance. The study concluded that both career development and management involvement in succession planning have positive significant relationship with employee retention in private hospitals in Lagos. Therefore, the study recommended that management private health care hospitals should consider succession planning as an important strategy to retain talent employee so as to enhance business growth and sustainability.