The role of professional development programs in employee retention: An Annotated
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The article basically seeks to identify the right strategies for the right reasons to hold on
essential employees. It focuses on the employee retention and employee engagement
strategies and presents the views of Ryan Brookes, a youth/family director for Virginia's
McLean Community Center.
This information is applicable to the paper because it gives a high level view on
characteristics of an employee who is essential to a company, and what some strategies
exist for retention of that employee.
Withers, P. (2001). Retention Strategies that Respond to Worker Values. Workforce
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This article by Pam Withers elaborates on employee needs. It talks about what employers
need to do to create a good work-life balance for their employees. It also details what
professional growth needs are of employees.
Information on professional growth needs is essential to putting together this paper.
Strategies that have been detailed in this article will be cited.
2016 Best Places to Work (2016). Advertising Age, 87(22), 0025.
This article presents a compilation of various companies that were featured in the 2016
periodical “2016 Best Places to Work”. It talks about a few of the companies that made
this list and what retention strategies they used to gain their success. The companies
include PWC Digital in New York, Ramey Agency in Jackson, Mississippi, and Ervin &
Smith in Omaha, Nebraska.
2016 BEST PLACES TO WORK. (2016). Advertising Age, 87(22), 0026.
Similar to the previous article, this article details strategies used by companies that made
the list of best places to work in 2016. The companies in this article are Publicis Health
Media in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UberMedia in Pasadena, California, Cogent
Entertainment Marketing in New York, and Cossette in Chicago, Illinois.
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The article offers suggestions for employee retention strategies in the workforce,
including involvement of contractors in several training programs, consideration of
internship programs for college students by construction companies and optimization of
internal talent for vulnerabilities prevention.
Looking at how professional development plays a role in employee retention, this article
offers suggestions into specific types of programs that promote professional
development. This information is vital to critically looking at the role of professional
development programs.
Making it the best job ever. (2009). Modern Healthcare, 39(43), S028.
Similar to previous articles, this article talks about employee retention strategies, using a
specific case study of healthcare information technology vendor, Intelligent InSites based
in Fargo, ND. The article makes use of information provided by the CEO, Mark Rheault
through an interview.
What makes this article stand out is that it has actual statistics taken from this company to
show the success of the strategies used. In addition, this article has information on
employee selection and hiring strategies that can make affect retention positively.
Baloch, Q. B., Zaman, G., & Jamshed, J. (2014). Determinants of Job satisfaction and
Employees Turnover Intentions. Abasyn University Journal Of Social Sciences, 7(1),
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This takes on the employee retention problem from a different angle. It basically presents
information that has been gathered from a study of the causes of employee turnovers.
This study looked at relationship between pay, promotion, family work conflict, work
family conflict, extended flight hours, co-workers support and supervision on job
satisfaction, performance, absenteeism, and turnover intention of cabin crew of PIA
Peshawar base.
Correlations found in this study will be cited to shine light on the way to go about
employee retention using professional development programs.
YUERAN, W., FEI, Z., & LIU, L. (2016). PERSON-ORGANIZATION FIT AND
TURNOVER INTENTION: PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AS A MODERATOR. Social
Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 44(8), 1233-1242.
doi:10.2224/sbp.2016.44.8.1233
This article looks at turnover intention, and the role of professional identity moderating
turnover intention. The information presented will be used in this paper to relate
employee retention to the relevance of employees having a professional identity.
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