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TRAINING STRATEGIES AS AN ANTECEDENT FOR EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT IN KENYAN SETTING.

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Employee training is intended to provide an opportunity for advancement and may be perceived as the organization values their employees and their sense of self-worth, therefore will result to building a stronger affective commitment. Thus also resulting to a function of close psychological attachment to the organization and its goals, (McElroy, 2001). The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of employee training and development strategies on employee commitment. The research hypotheses for the study were; Ho1 training opportunities have no significant effect on employee commitment. The study employed a case study research design that was conducted at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. The target population was three thousand two hundred (3200) respondents were targeted because that was the group highly affected by commitment and turnover issues in the organisation. A sample size of 340 was extracted from the target population and the sampling techniques used were stratified sampling. Data was analyzed using Multiple regression analysis was performed to test the hypothesized relationships. Based on the observed correlation results, training (? = 0.134, p<0.05) indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between employee training opportunities and employee commitment.This implies that the perceived empowerment of employees by the hospital was likely to impact positively on their commitment to the hospital.

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[ Bramuel Murgor, Wycliffe kiganane and Muhamed Sheik. (2017); TRAINING STRATEGIES AS AN ANTECEDENT FOR EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT IN KENYAN SETTING. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 2091-2095] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/2982      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/2982

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