Testing of Hypothesis

Testing of Hypothesis

This research sought to establish the connection between reward management practices and

retention of employees in the County government of Meru, Kenya. This section concerns

testing the study’s four alternative hypotheses based on correlation results in Tables 4.10,

4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Ha1: A positive and significant association exists between career growth and retention of

employees in the county government of Meru. The reported p value of 0.000 was below the

conventional p value of 0.05, therefore, Ha1 was not rejected implying that there is a positive

and significant connection between career growth and worker retention in the county

Ha3: Compensation possesses a positive and substantial effect on employee retention in

county government of Meru. The reported p value of 0.000 was lower than the conventional p

value of 0.05, therefore, Ha3 was not rejected implying existence of a positive and significant

connection between compensation and worker retention in the county government of Meru.

Ha4: A positive and significant connection exists between employee recognition and retention

of employees in county government of Meru. The observed p value of 0.000 was lower than

the conventional p value of 0.05; therefore, Ha4 was not rejected implying that a positive and

significant correlation exists between employee recognition and retention of employee in the

county government of Meru.