Employee retention is considered immensely important for the long-term health and success of organisations and to represent a source of competitive advantage as a strategic issue. This is due to the global competition for experienced and dedicated employees among businesses. The Global Access Savings and Loans Company Limited adopted job training and development as a human resource management programme to motivate its employees to remain working with the Company. The study assessed the impact of training and development programmes on retention of staff at the GASL Company Limited, Head Office Branch, Accra, Ghana. The study adopted a survey method. A total of 49 persons out of 50 respondents that made up the total staff of the organisation were used as units of analysis. The one (1) person opted out of the research by not responding to the questionnaire given to him. The research instrument used for the study was structured questionnaire. Descriptive percentage method was used to analyse the data. The study reveals that the employees generally had positive perception about the training and development programmes. Thus, they perceived the programmes are responsive to meeting their operational deficiencies. However, quite significant proportions of the employees were reluctant to continue working with the Company. The study recommends that more human resource management programmes should be implemented to complement the training and development programme so as to motivate the majority of the employees to commit their working career to the Company.
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Muhammad Abdullahi; Umar Jarma. The Impact of Training and Development Programmes on Retention of Staff: A Case of Global Access Savings and Loans Company Limited, Accra. J. Hum. Resour. Manag. 2023, 11(1), 1-6. doi: 10.11648/j.jhrm.20231101.11
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