The Important of Employee Retention Programs towards Bank Performance in East Coast, Malaysia

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Nor Emmy Shuhada Derani
Fadhilah Bte. Abdul Ghani

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The purpose of this study is to explore the important of organizations’ retention programs towards improving firm performance in banking sector. Almost every day, banking sector in Malaysia received resignation letter from its employees. It’s either from permanent or contract basis employees. An organization underestimate this matter and just take it for granted and it resulted bank performance decreased as well as increasing in spending for new hiring. This study has been conducted by distributing questionnaire to commercial and conventional banks in East Coast, Malaysia. The findings displayed the training and development, employee compensation, communication in workplace and value in teamwork is crucial to retain employees as well as to improve bank performance in Malaysia. Result from this study will help management especially HR department to look into retention programs seriously for the purpose of retaining its staff and expertise. For future research, it has been recommended to explore new industry such as manufacturing, hotel industry, retail as well as telecommunication company due to these industries nowadays shows high rate of turnover.

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Derani, N. E. S., & Ghani, F. B. A. (2019). The Important of Employee Retention Programs towards Bank Performance in East Coast, Malaysia. Asian Social Science and Humanities Research Journal (ASHREJ), 1(2), 19-25. https://doi.org/10.37698/ashrej.v1i2.14
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