Flexible Work Arrangements and Employee Retention: Evidence from Nigerian Breweries Plc Workforce

Abstract

One major driver of organisational success has been the retention of resourceful, energetic and productive employees. Retaining resourceful, energetic and productive employees in the competitive labour market has been a major concern and challenge to work organisations. Given this, this study investigated the influence of flexible work arrangements on employee retention among Nigerian Breweries Plc. workforce. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The unit of analysis was the Nigerian Breweries Plc and simple random sampling technique was used to selected respondents for the study from the target population. The underpinning theory for the study was psychological contract theory. The study found that flexible work arrangements significantly influence employee retention. Based on the findings, it was recommended that organisations should adopt flexible work arrangements, improve workplace counselling, entrench workplace counselling, formulate and implement workable flexible work arrangements policy for control, monitoring, evaluation mechanism, and invest in FWAs supporting technology, and infrastructures.