During the last decade, employee retention has become a most critical issue for all private sector organisations as a result of the shortage of skilled labor, economic growth and employee turnover. Retention of employees is an important function of the Human Resource Management. Employees are the assets of any organization. The organizations have to strive to retain the talents of the employees...

BACKGROUND People forget much of what they learn, therefore students could benefit from learning strategies that yield long-lasting knowledge. Yet surprisingly, little is known about how longterm retention is most efficiently mastered. We studied the value of teacher made in class tests as learning aids and compared two types of teacher-made tests (multiple choice and short-answer tests) with a...

Background: The key challenge is how to encourage and retain health professionals in their work location. There is a list of policy options for this purpose but applying an appropriate and effective set of strategies requires a country level research. Our study aimed to identify retention strategies for neurosurgeons and examine both the importance and feasibility of the identified strategies u...

CONTEXT Retention of nursing staff is a growing concern in many countries, especially in rural, remote or isolated regions, where it has major consequences on the accessibility of health services. PURPOSE This umbrella review aims to synthesize the current evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to promote nurse retention in rural or remote areas, and to present a taxonomy of potential...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are successful in delivering educational resources to the masses, however, the current retention rates — well below 10% — indicate that they fall short in helping their audience become effective MOOC learners. In this paper, we report two MOOC studies we conducted in order to test the effectiveness of pedagogical strategies found to be beneficial in the tradi...

This paper briefly outlines a proposal for increasing the capacity of schools and programs to better support the success and retention of Griffith students. This proposal should be understood within the context of the wider Griffith Retention Strategy (2012‐2014) which incorporates both curricular and co‐curricular strategies. The paper proposes the creation of a new role (Student Success Advis...

Background and aims: The key challenge is how to encourage and retain health professionals in their work location. There is a list of policy options for the purpose but applying an appropriate and effective set of strategies requires a country level research. Our study aimed to identify retention strategies for neurosurgeons and examine both the importance and feasibility of the identified stra...

Teacher shortage constitutes a crisis in the U.S. and education system at-large. In light of teacher severity turnover rate, purpose this paper is to join dialogue further conversation regarding how believing or reinforcing stereotypes can contribute burnout unrealistic expectations teachers face education. Suggestions for pre-service in-service acquire more realistic resilient lens themselves ...