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Most companies nowadays experience issues due to the lack of organizing career development programs. Hence, the study determines the association career development with employee retention in Malaysian airline industry. This study adapted structured questionnaires from past work comprising employee retention (eight items), career planning (seven items), training and development (8 items), and talent management (seven items). A total of 377 respondents were selected from the ground handling department of selected company from Malaysian airline industry. Besides, this research adopted descriptive and influential survey research designs to identify which variable influenced employees’ decision to remain or quit the organization. The results indicated that career planning, training, and development with talent management were significant and positively correlated with employee retention. Ultimately, the results could enable the companies to provide good service quality in the ground handling department.
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To Cite this Article: Merican, N., Monil, M., Rafie, U. N., & Tajuddin, D. (2022). The Effect of Career Planning, Talent Management and Training Development towards Employee Retention. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(8), 165 – 173.
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