Many organizations are interested in succesion planning in developing their talent. However, there are some challenges in practically implement the planning in talent development process. For instance, one of the most challenging issues in human resource management is dealing with employee turnover, retention and engagement. As high turnover employee is a bad sign as it will increase organization overall cost and time spending to train the new employees. So, these issues need serious attention from the organization as it highly associated with the successful of the organization. Therefore, this conceptual paper presents the determinant factors for employee retention in an organization and challenges to implement it within the context of Malaysian organizations. This paper provide a better understanding how organizations could identify new strategies to improve their employee retention program.
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To Cite this Article: Mahadi, N., Woo, N. M. F., Baskaran, S., & Yaakop, A. Y. (2020). Determinant Factors for Employee Retention: Should I Stay? International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10(4), 201–213.
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