Essays on Retention

Abstract

Better Education: The ardent supporters of the system argue that year round schooling ensures better education and retention among the kids or students since the schedule is quite continuous and the breaks are less and shorter. The interruption to education is far less when compared to the normal systems and this definitely upholds high standard of education and better learning. “Summer Learning Loss” as often been termed as one of the biggest problem for American kids, since students tend to forget whatever they learned in schools during 3 months long break. This phenomenon has adverse effect on learning and ...

Studies propose that although higher education is expensive, students who complete this level of education are found to be healthier earning a good salary as compared to high school graduates. Moreover, these individuals make the life of their offspring quite easier and are seen to be more productive at workplace. Due to a higher education degree, these individuals rely less on government funds and benefits. In other words, as compared to those individuals who receive a two-year associate/certificate degree, students having completed four years of college enjoy a better status, lifestyle and earn more (Kathleen, 2002). For this purpose, ...

Business

Toyota Motor Company, located at 1, Toyota-cho, Toyota City, Aichi 471-8571, Japan, was incorporated in 1937 as Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. It is among the forerunners in passenger car manufacturing, and is today, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of automobiles in terms of both, units sold and net sales. Since the U.S happens to be one of its biggest markets, and the company has been able to almost double its sales in comparison to Honda Motors, it competes with other U.S car manufacturers; General Motors (GM) and Ford Motors for the premier #1 position (Toyoland, 2010). However, ...

International Student Retention in American Universities

Methodology The study aims to investigate the international student retention in American universities. Initially the preferred research design was constructed from the assumption that the necessary data for this study can be obtained from the central data system containing historical surveys pertaining to international student retention in American higher education. However, the historical data may not be able to sustain the validity and accuracy requirement of this study (Mathiyazhagan and Nandan, 2010). Therefore, it is necessary to instead to collect data using a survey. This approach uses a qualitative method that includes sampling, instrumentation, selection of participants, administration of ...

Introduction

The Cardiovascular Health Study focuses on the aged persons, who are about sixty five to a hundred years. The article states that, the number of persons above the age of eighty continues to increase at a fast rate. The persons above age eighty need constant medical attention because they face many risk factors that affect their health. In this article retention has been described as having retained persons used to conduct this study, through subsequent assessment. The information collected for the assessments, gets collected through longitudinal cohort study which uses observation. A longitudinal study uses repeated observations with same ...

Description of the issue

The number of colored students who secure chances for higher education in the United States has greatly been on the decline. The rates of admission and successful completion of higher education by students who are of African-American origins, Hispanic and the Native Americans origin have always trailed behind their White and Asian counterparts. Perhaps, this has been on the grounds of low income and discrimination based on race. Moreover, students with disabilities have also not been adequately represented in the higher education, in United States. Besides, the needs of the few African-Americans, the Hispanic and the Native American students ...

- What are the common teacher incentive pay program designs? - Are the teachers’ incentive programs effective in enhancing students’ performance? In that view, the study summarizes the four articles’ study findings as well as authors’ conclusion and then draws a conclusion on the issue based on the quantitative studies presented by the authors. Those articles include Steele, Murname and Willnett (2009) that seek to analyze the effect of incentive on teachers’ retention. In the article, a natural experiment done in California between the year 2000 and 2003 involving an incentive of $20,000 that was called the Governor’ ...

Job Company Base Pay

Administrative assistant: A $25000 B $31000 C $30000 D $33000

E $29000

F $28000 Average $29000 3% Lead $30000 Base pay Benefits manager: A $62000 B $61500 C $60000 D $64000

E $63000

F $66000 Average $63000 3% Lead $65000 Base pay

Operations analysts: A $55000

B $57000 C $56000 D $58500

E $59000

F $54000 Average $57000 3% Lead $59000 Base pay

Payroll assistant: A $35000

B $34000 C $35000 D $35000

E $36000

F $29000 Average $34000 3% Lead $35000 Base pay »» Task G: Because your company wants to lead in base pay by 3 percent, adjust the predicted pay rates to determine the base pay rate you will offer for each benchmark ...

Improving Organization Retention

When organizations fail in retaining their quality employees, they are often left with are under qualified and understaffed workforce that will eventually have an effect on the organization’s ability towards being competitive. Work retention is an important element in a functioning organization. It has an important relationship with the management skills in the workplace. Every organization has to implement strategies that are specifically designed to improve programs that attract employees, develop their skills, retain, and utilize their equitably, fairly, and professionally (Guerro, 2007). Any organization that wants to they keep their employees from leaving their current jobs and ...

Nurses play an invaluable role in health care. In collaboration with other disciplines in the health care field, nurses help populations attain satisfactory levels of health and wellness both in the absence or presence of disease. With the graying of society, the demand for nursing care is expected to increase. Individuals are living longer lives but often with chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease that require acute and preventive care. As such, the ongoing nursing shortage is a serious concern with its negative impact on health. While the current recession pulled nurses back into the health care ...

Introduction

For an overall staffing system, retention of employees is always the last component to consider. Although the loss of some of the employees is both inevitable and desirable, the aspect of retention management aims at ensuring that an organization keeps enough employees who have the best KSAOs that can be used to generate future success (Heneman & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2012, p.711). In this paper, I will seek to answer various application questions derived from the case of managerial turnover in a company known as Health Care Launder Care (HCLC). This is a company that has seen 20 site managers leaving their ...

Abstract

Employee turnover is an issue that almost all HR managers have to deal with, and it is an area of serious concern. Attrition is something that HR managers address right from the recruitment stage till the time an employee exits an organization. It is ironical that exit, avoidance and retention is addressed even before the first step of recruitment happens. Many HR managers intuitively factor aspects like how long could an individual stay and be committed to an organization while interviewing them. Surprising as it sounds, however, it is a matter of truth and reality in the world of ...

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Introduction

TLC or Thin-layer chromatography refers to a technique that is applied in the separation of mixtures that are not volatile (Reich & Schibli, 2007). The process is done on a sheet of plastic, glass, or aluminum foil that has been coated using a thin layer of material that is adsorbent such as aluminum oxide, silica gel and cellulose (Sherma & Fried, 2003; University of Colorado, 2014). This adsorbent layer is referred to as the stationary phase. The sample is usually applied using a capillary tube on the plate, and the sample is taken up the ...

Among Law Enforcement Agencies

POLICE RETENTION 2 Introduction Maintaining an adequate police personnel level is one of the most prominent challenges currently facing the field of law enforcement. The supply and demand for competent officers are going to be changed due to intensifying law enforcement errands, escalating attrition and declining resources. These challenges might have initiated throughout the latest economic recession and actually worsened as the economy improved (Wilson & Weiss, 2014). The question arises whether the durable obligation of applicants and current officers will continue in times of economic development since enrollment and retention of officers have both become an escalating challenge for ...

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Introduction In the American education system, often uses intelligence tests in order to determine the abilities of the students. However, such intelligence tests have been accused of insensitivity to students who have other abilities. In this regard, and after numerous studies, the Gardner’s multiple intelligences model was formulated. Although the model has been criticized for being subjective and lacking measures of determining intelligence, it has not only been accepted widely, but also shows more sensitivity to the various abilities of the students (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2010). This paper looks at the differences in these intelligences in the context of ...

Solutions to the Problem using PICO

P (participants) - nursing staff with high rate of turnover I (intervention) – proposed improvement in the effectiveness of interventions to promote nurse retention C (Comparator) - Doing nothing/ maintaining the status-quo

O (Outcome) - reduce job turnover in the healthcare sector

Therefore the PICO question will be: Does the proposed improvement in the effectiveness of interventions to promote nurse retention benefit or influence nursing staffs with high rate of turnover to reduce job turnover in the healthcare sector?

Solution

In order to get the solution, 517 nurses (P) participated in an interview that took the form of screened publication. The researchers used the PRISMA criteria to assess the quality of ...

Introduction

Staff turnover is vital for a hospitality organization, especially when the organizations aim at a high-quality service. The focus of the hospitality business must be to provide outstanding service that will give a memorable experience to the guests. For offering such experience, trained and happy people are required. A high rate of employee turnover has negative and immediate effect on the organization.Hospitality industry is a labor intensive industry, requiring a variety of skills, knowledge and attitudes, and levels of competency. The labor turnover rate in the hospitality industry is observed as higher than other segments. Many positions are available ...

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Introduction This information becomes somewhat devastating when a law enforcement supervisor starts exploring new strategies of recruitment to draw a number of applicants. Now in the time of shortage how will it be possible to attract applicants? The other questions arise as how they will retain personnel or should they change their recruiting strategies to compete with non-police associations? These are the main emerging problems that required to be addressed. Military call-ups, struggle for competent applicants, confined budget crises, shifting work preferences and above of all, baby-boom-generation ...

Overview

The following paper provides a critique of the study on “Long-term retention of older adults in the cardiovascular health study: Implications for studies of the oldest old.” The paper utilizes epidemiology and biostatistics concepts to analyse the study. Some of the important concepts discussed include identification of the research problem, research questions, generation of hypothesis, research design used and its validity to the study, justification of research methods, and suitability of data analysis procedure. Epidemiology and biostatistics concept provides an individual with skills to design and implement fundamental and practical research healthcare (Texas A&M Health Science Centre, 2014).

In which paragraph(s) of the study is a research problem stated?

The ...

Care Approach

Context of the Problem According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2014), the US is projected to face a shortage of nurses, which will intensify as baby boomers begin to age, making the need for healthcare to grow. This shortage is expected to grow and spread across the US from 2009 to 2030, despite recessions when jobs are normally few. One of the factors that will contribute to the shortage is the recurring problem of nurse turnover. It has been noted that there have been a problem in healthcare organization’s retention focuses to prevent nurse ...

1. Introduction The banking industry is one of the most important and crucial industries in any economy as they perform many vital financial functions associated with the development of the nation’s economy (Scott, 2007). The utility provided by banks to the customers determines the popularity of the bank in the market and likewise also has an impact on the competitive position of the bank in a particular market. As banks are a part of the service industry, the competency of a given banks is largely dependent on the human resources employed in the organisation. This document analyses the ...

Identification of the issue

Many countries of the world are facing the problems of the nursing shortage and high nurse turnover in the healthcare set-ups. Many young nurses either change their place of employment or leave the nursing profession within one year of their professional careers. High nurse turnover is economically costly and is associated with negative patient outcomes. Several strategies have been adopted by the healthcare systems to reduce this shortfall. Two of the most significant of these strategies are attracting newcomers to the profession and improving staff retention. A significant link exists between healthy work environments, job satisfaction and staff retention. ...

Nursing turnover is a problem that has caused nurse shortages in healthcare organizations. The orientation process that nurses receive during their initial entry to the healthcare unit matters a lot because it forms the foundation of the nurses in the healthcare unit. Nursing turnover leads to many costs. It leads to economic and non-economic losses. Nursing turnover results when a health organization loses a nurse and position creates a vacancy that requires filling. The changing economic times and competitive world, health organizations find concern because of the costs associated with nurse turnover. There are various causes of labor turnover. ...

Introduction

Several organizations have at one time or another realized a high number of employee turnover. This puts an organization at a disadvantage especially because of the negative publicity it renders to the organization. Many scholars have done research using guidelines like ways to enhance employee attraction and retention, types of motivation that will lead to employee retention and even how to transform retention theories into practice. The problem under investigation relates to the reasons why it is difficult for organizations to attract and retain their workers. There is need for further research seeing that the problem of worker attraction ...

Identification of Codeine by Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

Group Members: Aim The present practical exercise aims at examining a commercial Panadeine tablet for the presence of codeine and paracetamol using GC-MS. Introduction Methyl morphine, codeine, occurs in opium at low concentrations. Codeine is a pro-drug because it undergoes metabolism or demethylation, in vivo, to form the active analgesic morphine. The experiment 3 involves a pH dependent extraction technique. The process separates the active constituents of Panadeine. Before extracting Panadeine, however, Eosin B undergoes extraction in order to demonstrate the effect of pH on the solubility of the compound. The GC-MC allows for the separation of a mixture ...

Purpose

The experiment aims to identify two unknown amino acids using paper chromatography. To be specific, the retention factor or Rf values of standard amino acids was used to see which one matched that of the unknowns.

Introduction

Chromatography can be defined as the separation of a mixture into various fractions by distribution between a mobile phase, which can be a gas or a liquid, and a stationary phase, a liquid or solid. Different substances have different affinities for the stationary and mobile phases. A substance that has no affinity for the stationary phase will remain in the mobile phase and ...

Introduction

Bryophytes represent the oldest plants inhabiting the land, with some scientists putting its age to approximately 400 million years. Although a single plant is very small when viewed in isolation, their presence in forests is very conspicuous with some forests having a large mat cushioning trees trunks, rocks, and walls in the woodlands. Bryophytes comprise of three major taxonomic groups which are Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotophyta. For this lab report, three species of Mosses, which is in the Bryophyta group and two species of Lichens will be used. The behavior of mosses in relation to absorption of water and the ...

In the current days, improving customer relationships with the aid of information systems in today's society has become very adverse and inevitable. Entrepreneurs are using all types of technological skills and features in order to achieve the largest market share in the business industry. Recently the introduction of advanced technological skills is evident and all entrepreneurs are working extremely hard in order to adopt the technological advancement in order to compete in the global market. It is often depicted that change is inevitable and so is the technological change in the business industry (Peelen, 2011). All these advancements and ...

Music education plays an important role in the retention of elementary school students. This is by improving the progression of students’ retention in the elementary schools and states the ways and factors of retaining a student in elementary school. Music education improves students’ retention in many ways which are included in this book. Some of these factors are the reading performance, effectiveness of the administration and promotion. One of the important factors improving student retention in elementary school is the student’s performance level for reading. According to this book, this will be done through class work, observation, tests ...

Introduction

Risk and risk factors are some of the threatening entities of a functioning firm or company. The risk-management process involves the systematic application of management policies and practices as well as procedures, with the intention of establishing a context of communication and consultation with relevant stakeholders. The treatment, monitoring, and reviewing of risks also comprises of identification, analysis, and evaluation. A risk is the possibility of a loss or other adverse event that has the potential to interfere with an organization’s or individual’s ability to fulfill its or his/her objectives. Risk identification ensures that an organization or ...

Abstract

Instance of countries introducing restrictions on the amount of harmful gases released to the atmosphere is on the rise. Countries like the United States have introduced policies which govern motor vehicle pollution. Gasoline is the main component of debate. As a result several studies have been done to determine the components of gasoline. In this experiment, components of gasoline are determine by an analysis process called gas chromatogram. Samples of gasoline used in the experiment are collected from four stations BP, Marathon, Moto-Mart and Sunoco from Ashland. The samples are then analyzed using a gas chromatogram. 10 ml was ...

- Desired Mentoring outcome with new faculty The outcomes that this paper addresses include increasing of retention among new faculty and the maintenance of high standards of care by the faculty. It is important to understand that evaluations are meant to constructively critic the weaknesses that are evident within the faculty. In this way the faculty will be in a position to work on their weaknesses so as to improve their quality of care. In order increase retention of new faculty, it is worth noting that some of the concerns that the faculty might have regarding their work environment ...

Introduction

Risk and risk factors are the cornerstones of a functioning firm or company. The risk-management process involves the systematic application of management policies and practices as well as procedures, with the intention of establishing a context of communication and consultation with relevant stakeholders. The treatment, monitoring, and reviewing of risks also comprises identification, analysis, and evaluation. Consider a scenario where a top company employs a new CEO and one of her first decisions is to ensure that safety is a major priority. Twoof the new rules being established state that all employees are required to use safety gear while ...

The need to increase the number of students who retain their studies to graduation arises from the necessity to provide a workforce with the right academic and professional qualifications. Institutions all over the world have come up with programs to entice students to incessantly enroll for their studies every semester until graduation. It is researched that there are several institutions with a retention rate of 70%. However, some institutions’ student population that graduates is only 55% as others have a graduation proportion as low as 25%. Whereas institutions may not focus on retention of the students explicitly, efforts to ...

EEOC v. Target Corp.

Philosophy and Number

Write a 2 paragraph response to each of the following questions:* - Based on the information in the case, what mistakes did Target make in their record keeping process? Based on the information in the case, the mistakes that Target committed in their record keeping process include throwing out applicants’ resumes instead of retaining them for a specified period of time as required by law and policies. Despite the fact that Target has its document retention policy and the law requires them to do so, some of Target’s employees (e.g., store manager) discard applicants’ ...

How Does the Implementation of a Mentoring Program that Utilizes the Essential Elements of Effective Mentoring Impact the Level of Job Satisfaction and the Retention of Faculty in a School of Nursing? Raising competitive nurses who would soon take care of the country’s aging population has been proven to be a challenge because of the delicateness of the job and the amount of passion, dedication and hard work required to succeed. People tend to focus too much on the sacrifices that the students undergo in order to graduate and pass the licensure examinations and then finally become a ...

Proposal

Education is always called the key to a bright future. It is because of this idea that people spend their entire childhood, teenage years and almost half of their adult life in school. The right to an education is even part of the law in most countries but despite all of these stances when it comes to education, the reality tends to fly in the face of idealism. Student retention rates tend to drop in collegiate education levels because of many reasons and as such, why this is and the steps that can be taken to reduce this will ...

Abstract:

This report is intended to examine Ragan Inc’s current financial position and to identify any possible shortcomings and future threats. The report provides an analysis of the present stock price, dividend pay out ratio, Earnings per share, Price earning ratio and growth rate of the company and a comparison with industry averages. The method used to examine these indicators is stock valuation.

Company Brief:

Ragan Inc, formed by brother and sister Carrington and Genevieve Ragan, has been earning healthy profits for past nine years. The reason behind this was a unique technology being used by the company. The company is ...

- Problem Statement – Area(s) of Improvement In any educational process the only way for a student to learn is by actually remembering what they have been taught. This is doubly true in any of the more precise subject such as math, science and technology; all of which rely on solid evidence to prove someone’s point and more importantly, numbers. By this very attribute, math has gained the ire of students around the world despite the numerous improvements and possibilities the field has provided to society. In this light, the main problem that this research paper is trying to ...

Executive summary

Regan Inc. has been involved in the installation and manufacturing of commercial heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) units. This report uses dividend growth model to estimate the price of the stock. The report calculates the price of the stock of Regan Inc. after including the super growth period that the company would observe after advancement in technology. Price to earnings ratio of the company has been used and compared it with the industry to analyze how the investors think about the company’s future as well as the industry future. Return on equity has also been calculated if the ...

One important aspect of the educational system is having student commit to memory large amounts of information. This being the case, when studying human experimental psychology, learning and memory have always been central topics for exploration. Human memory research has focused on retention over the past 30 years. The role that metacognitive processes have in retention are essential in understanding the processes of learning and memory. This includes the basis for predictions and subsequent retention and the control processes that determine what material requires further study. Students need to make decisions about which information they need to spend time ...

Abstract

This literature review investigates the aspect of higher education retention among Native Americans. Areas covered include persistence rates among students, higher education funding, change in careers goals and aspirations, Indian race/ethnicity, changed perceptions, regarding college life, and the challenges associated with integrating into higher education. Other aspects that will be addressed in this literature review include retention and student success, equitability of the US education system, and Native American values. Keywords: Retention, Higher Education, Education funding, Diversity and culture, Education System, Factors influencing higher education, Native American

A Literature Review on Key Issues

The issue of higher education retention is a major subject in academic ...

Understanding the Doctoral Research Process

- Introduction- Apart from finishing college and obtaining a degree, students are aiming for a much higher educational attainment by finishing graduate studies to further their expertise in a particular area of expertise. However, finishing a graduate course would require a comprehensive research that will prove the student’s established knowledge in the discipline (Blanton-Kent et al., 2010). Doctoral research is one way for graduate students to prove their specialization in the particular field of study. In lieu to that requirement, a research about student success and retention in both public and for-profit universities and colleges will be measured ...

Theoretical Strategies and Practical Applications

While the entire world suffers from retaining workers in the healthcare industry, retaining nurses and nursing managers is one of the highest priorities for healthcare facilities. With high burnout rates, high retirement rates, low enrolment rates in nursing schools, low compensations for demanding positions, stressful working environments, and high job dissatisfactions in the nursing field, it is expected that the nursing field will experience high shortages because replacement and retention rates are too low to keep up with retirement rates. It is possible to categorize factors that determine nursing manager retention rates by importance. “Communication, participative management, and effective ...

(NRS 441V: Professional Capstone) - Abstract A sizeable research shows that the currently witnessed nursing retention problems have significantly hampered the provision of healthcare across the United States. Nursing shortage is directly tethered to the low retention rates and not unless drastic steps are taken to avert this problem, the entire healthcare system is set to experience a hard time ahead. Therefore, this paper intends to explore what are the probable causes of this problem and subsequently give recommendations on the best evidence-based approaches to resolve the issue. Overwhelming evidence shows high levels of work stress and dissatisfaction are ...

Chapter One: Introduction3

Background of the Research6 Statement of the Problem7 Purpose of the Study 7 Research Questions..7

Definition of Terms .7

Limitations ..7

Significance of the Study7

Organization of the Study7 Chapter Two: Review of Literature 7 Introduction..7 Spady’s (1970) Theory of Student Departure16 Tinto’s (1975) Student Integration Theory19 Pascarella’s (1980) Attrition Theory 24 Astin’s (1984) Student Involvement Theory26 Bean and Metzner’s (1985) Student Attrition Theory28 Cabrera’s (1992) Integrated Retention Theory7

Criticism of the theories.7

Conclusion 7 Chapter Three: Method .7 Introduction 5 Research Paradigm.7 Research Questions7 Research Design.7 Participants7 Instrumentation 7 Procedure7 Data Collection Method7 Data Analysis7 Chapter Four: Results .7 Summary of the findings..7

Graphs and Tables.7

Chapter ...

Executive Summary

Rocky Marketing Network is faced with two issues concerning to their workforce i.e. low retention rate and poor performance that are telling upon their profitability and challenging their position with a comparison to their competitors. The current report has been prepared after a careful investigation of the causes of the reported issues. After a deep study, it was detected that both the issues are overlapping each other to a considerable extent and are the products of poor HRM performance. Furthermore, it is suggested that the company can tackle both the issues by taking appropriate initiatives, which are as follows: ...

Tillot et al. (2013) identifies that nursing shortage is a result of an aging workforce, aging population, job dissatisfaction, shortage within the nursing faculty and the lack of an engaging and collaborative environment is care settings. Tillot et al. (2013) utilized a systematic review of past literature aimed at assessing the factors that deny the workers an opportunity to engage their colleagues constructively in practice. The study notes that the management should focus on developing an environment where communication and staff collaboration and engagement is considered a primary element of the organizational culture. The study is highly applicable in ...

QUANTITATIVE (Statistical) Studies Only

This Research Plan form, version 2.42, must be completed and reviewed before taking steps to collect data and write the dissertation. In the School of Business and Technology, its satisfactory completion satisfies dissertation milestone 5, indicating that the RP proposal has passed the “scientific merit review,” part of the IRB process. Before going any further, review carefully the Research Plan Instructions, v2.4, available on iGuide. It will be difficult to complete the RP without using the Instructions.

Specialization Chair’s Approval after Section 1

When you have completed Section 1 along with initial references in section 8, send the RP to your mentor for review. When ...

Abstract

There are a number of contributing factors to misperceptions over first-year retention rates among traditional and non-profit university students. In addition to the usual transitional, social, emotional and academic determinants, modern-day university students face unprecedented economic burdens and pressures driven by the state of the job market. Data on these and other factors must be gathered and extrapolated using quantitative methods in order to derive an accurate picture of the true situation if the furtherance of misperceptions is to be avoided.

Keywords: retention rates, traditional, non-profit, university, academic quantitative ...

Declaration This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “Gaining Strategic Advantage through Customer Value”, presented by me to the University of South Africa for the award of the degree of Master of Business Leadership is a bona fide record of research work which was carried out by me under the supervision of Dr Sidney Shipham. The contents of this dissertation in full or in parts have never been submitted to any other Institution of higher learning for the award of ...

Staff Development in healthcare Industry (The Canberra Hospital)

Contemporary business is an increasingly complex environment, which continues challenging organization by even more multifaceted relationships between various stakeholders. The distinctive characteristic of modern business arena is the growth of the organizations and the interdependencies between for-profit, nonprofit and governmental bodies. The reality shows that in order to succeed and build sustainable and effective organization, companies should place more emphasis on the cost-side and productivity. This productivity comes from the ability of the firms to manage human factor, build on motivation and retention, which will create loyalty and drive performance Armstrong & Baron 2002). With that in mind, Human Resource ...

A better understanding of memory consolidation and contributory factors is necessary to determine how it applies to the field of education. The following is a review of three studies on memory consolidation in the performance of different motor skill tasks by different population groups using a variety of independent variables.

Study #1

Purpose of the Study Terpening et al. (2012) aimed to investigate the relationship between certain characteristics of sleep and the ability to learn and correctly perform a motor skill, namely sequential finger-tapping. The researchers recognized the limited number of studies done thus far on the neurological disturbances that occur ...

- Introduction Employer branding is established as a way to pool up for new potential employees simultaneously retaining the current taskforce. Now employees don’t want just money or it can simply be stated that they don’t get motivated with monetary rewards alone. There is a list of other factors that together affect the choice of employees for an organization. They want to affectionately associate themselves with the name of the employer or the organization they are working for and true essence of employment encompasses many factors including the styles of management, company’s culture, its goals and ...

Minority Student Retention and Graduation Rates: Translating Quantitative Studies into Actionable Results

Minority students make up approximately one-third of total student enrollment in America’s post-secondary institutions. Recent studies have shown that approximately 40 percent of African-American students who enroll in four-year colleges and universities can expect to graduate, while slightly less than half of Hispanic students remain in school (Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2012). There are a number of key academic, financial and social factors that dictate low minority graduation rates in the United States, and ...

Introduction

Managing talent and employee retention in hospitality and cruise industry sector has become a major concern for 2014. It is presented as ‘the strategic management’ by Baum (2008) in analyzing the influence of labor market on the talent management. The industry faces the highest employee turnover that reduces significantly the competitiveness of companies in this sector. Also, talent management has become vital due to lack of skilled workers and the uncertainties labor market (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) 2005). Many hotel operators lack powerful strategic plan for managing talents that is critical in promoting brand consistency (Kyriakidis ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses. This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

Theoretical Framework

Introduction

Higher education institutions such as universities and colleges contribute significantly to the development of young people into responsible and successful individuals. In many countries, governments invest huge amounts of their national budget in education. This is because higher education is a sure way of preparing the nation’s youth to be future innovators, leaders, and the whole nation’s labor force. There are tertiary education institutions that are for profit organizations. These institutions offer education services, but also look to make profits from the services they offer. These colleges have well developed systems where they look to retain ...

Education

Abstract Minority students that can be targeted for retention programs include students from the African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Filipino and Hawaiian ethnicities. The issues that need to be addressed in order to retain minority students in higher education nursing programs include more academic preparation, more support from faculty, and the availability of health the insurance. The wrong perceptions about nurses start as young as Kindergarten and last through elementary and high school. Long term solutions to the retention problem can start when nursing associations and university departments need to reach out to local school districts by offering help in ...

Exploring Research Designs and the Relationship to the Research Question

The goal of this study is to examine the various factors affecting the retention rates of first year college students. The main guiding research question for the study is: what are the factors that affect the student retention rates of first year college students.

Research questions

The following are the research questions for this study: 1. How does financial background affect student attrition rates of first year college students? 2. What is the relationship between academic and social integration and student retention rates? 3. Is institutional commitment an effective administrative strategy for increasing student attrition rates?

Research Design

Research design primarily depends on ...