Retaining high-quality employees: Contextual considerations and strategies for facilitating retention within child care settings
- Quichocho, D., Lucier-Greer, M., Nichols, L. R., O’Neal, C. W. (2019). Retaining high-quality employees: Contextual considerations and strategies for facilitating retention within child care settings. Auburn, AL: Military REACH
- The purpose of this report was to review promising practices with regard to employee retention that can be applied to child care programs. More specifically, in this report, contextual factors that affect retention are presented, and best practices that encourage employees to remain with an organization are discussed. These practices include hiring well, fostering a healthy workplace environment, offering growth opportunities, cultivating high-quality leadership, providing flexibility, supporting wellness, and integrating employee input.
Report Link
Publication Type
Focus Terms
Branch of Service
Subject Affiliation
Methodology
Publisher/Sponsoring Organization
Author Affiliation
Research summaries convey terminology used by the scientists who authored the original research article; some terminology may not align with the federal government's mandated language for certain constructs.