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2007 Report Of Recruitment And Retention Of Nonprofit Employees In Utah County, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the various elements influencing recruitment and retention of nonprofit employees within Utah County. We measured retention by asking questions in four primary categories: 1) willingness to stay; 2) length of plans to stay (how long the employee plans to stay); 3) job satisfaction; and 4) perceived job availabilities. We measured one element of recruiting by asking employees about their job referral method (i.e., how they heard about the job opening for their current position). This section (Section II) will only discuss findings among the five variables as they relate to each …