This study examined employee retention and performance of University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) in Edo State, Nigeria. To accomplish the study objective, cross sectional survey was performed on a sample of three hundred and one (301) clinical UBTH staff in Nigeria, using a well structure questionnaire on five-point Likert scale. Data were collected and analysed by using descriptive statistics, ANOVA and ordinary least square regression. The result indicated that technology integration, welfare policies and job satisfaction were found to be significant and positively related with performance while self-actualization had positive but insignificant relationship with performance of University of Benin Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. The study came to conclusion that a determined workforce needs to be develop in order to uphold organizational success and emphasizes the need for comprehensive strategy to retention, integrating technology, improving welfare, developing self-actualization and then guarantee job happiness.
Keywords: Employee Retention, Job Satisfaction, Performance, self-actualisation, technology integration, welfare policy
