THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAINING AND EMPLOYEES’ RETENTION: A REVIEW PAPER

Abstract

In this globalization era, organizations have been looking for approaches that could retain talented employees. Talented employees are the major assets of organizations that could improve overall organizational performance. Employees are the human resources that assist an organization to run daily operation. In order to enhance the competitiveness of organizations in this competitive era, it is important to look for the factors or antecedents that could retain employees, especially talented and good employees. However, it was claimed that employee retention is overlooked in the past studies. There are many factors that could help to retain employees. Training is one of the contributors that is potentially retain most of the employees. However, many organizations refused to invest on training because training involves a huge amount of expenses, and the outcomes of training is not guaranteed. It is crucial to develop a review paper that reviews the importance of training on employees’ retention. Hence, the past studies that investigated the relationship between training and employees’ retention are important for this review paper. This review writing involved the articles that are ranged from 2008 to 2018, which is a decade. From the past studies, it was found that the relationship between training and retention among employees is inconsistent. Some studies revealed significant relationship, while other studies claimed that there is non-significant relationship between the variables. The inconsistency of findings has caused ambiguity to the linkage between the variables. Due to the inconsistency of findings, it is recommended that future studies should conduct more studies about the relationship between training and employees’ retention among corporate personnel. Future studies are also suggested to conduct their studies in longitudinal form in order to capture the trend of changes throughout their research.