Essays on Retention

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, Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

- 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’ Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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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 Continue reading...

Among Law Enforcement Agencies

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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 Continue reading...

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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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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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 Continue reading...

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?

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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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

- 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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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’ Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

- 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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...