Continuing professional development: An overlooked determinant of job satisfaction
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https://doi.org/10.53983/ijmds.v12n03.001Keywords:
Career development, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Employee satisfactionAbstract
This research found that career development is a complex program that organizations need to sit down and work hand in hand with their employees. To justify this, it sought to find out the level of employee satisfaction on career development at a multinational corporation based in Tokyo. It analyzed the mean and standard deviation of the responses on satisfaction in training and development, coaching and scholarship. The responses were then grouped according to their profile then analyzed using One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA. The initial results found that all employees were satisfied with the company’s training and development programs. However, the distribution of the company’s scholarship program did not satisfy the respondents. When the responses were grouped according to the age profile, it was found that the there was a significant difference on the training and development and coaching programs of the company with p-values 0.021 and 0.006 respectively.
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