Examine the staff training and development culture of public universities in Ghana and its impacts on employee retention

The study examined the relationship between training and development and employee retention in some selected public universities in Ghana. Public universities in Ghana are faced with myriad of problems related to training and development and employee retention. For instance, ninety-seven percent of public universities in the country do not allow employees to have required external training or developmental training. In fact, if an employee develops a personal ambition for further training or self-development; the public universities would rather he/she tendered a resignation before he or she embarks on such developmental studies. In a style of a qualitative research, descriptive-casual survey method was adopted. Data were collected from the administration of questionnaire and were analysed using multiple regression analysis. Findings show that training and development has a positive relationship with employee retention. This means that a positive relationship exists between training & development and employees' retention. It implies that the more the training and development of the bank employees, the higher the chances of the employees' being retained. This implies that training and development has significant effect on employee retention. The research recommends that a dissatisfied employee cannot work effectively to achieve the organizational goals.