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The study expressed the effect of variable payment and employee retention to the reward of Management performance in some selected organizations in south East Nigeria. The application of descriptive statistics, correlation tools and mean likert was employed to evaluate the significant relationship and coefficient of determination of the variables. However, the tools show that there is a strong positive relationship association between the variable payment and employee retention in public university. The analysis also shows that there is a strong positive significant relationship in the system. These results conclude that variable payment and employee retention has a strong positive effect to organizational performance in the study areas selected. The study is recommended for wider use applicable for the study areas, for academic purposes, for research and to understand the impact of variable payment and employee retention in organizational practices and its performances in public universities and beyond.
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To Cite this Article: Orajaka, U. P. (2021). Reward of Management Practices for Employee Retention and Variable Payment to Public Institutions. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(3), 212-225.
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