Pre-retirement counselling services for employees: The case of two public sector organisations

Abstract

Among other things, employers owe it a responsibility to capacitate their employees towards an enhanced livelihood after retirement. Yet, there seemed to be an inadequate scientific investigation on what the public sector organisations do to achieve that end. To fill this knowledge gap, this study set out to unravel the pre-retirement counselling services that two public sector organisations render to their employees. A cross-sectional survey design was used to guide the conduct of the study. A sample size of 368 respondents was obtained by using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The questionnaire was the main instrument employed for data collection, which had a reliability coefficient of 0.87. The outcomes of the survey disclosed that there exist inadequate pre-retirement counselling services for employees of the organisations. There is, however, a statistically significant difference in the pre-retirement counselling services that the two organisations render for their employees. The pre-retirement services provided for the Ghana Education Service (GES) employees seem to be more than those offered to the employees of Ghana Health Service (GHS). In view of the inadequate pre-retirement counselling services for the employees of both organisations, it is recommended that more should be done by the organisations on the pre-retirement counselling for their employees to enhance their preparation for and eventual retirement life.

Keywords: Pre-retirement counselling, counselling services, retirement planning, public sector employees.

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