Environment and Employee Development Policies

The work was guided by four specific objectives, that is, to establish the relationship between; physical environment, psychosocial environment, training policy, management development policy and staff retention. The study used mainly the quantitative approach with a correlational cross-sectional research design.The study showed that the variables were positively correlated to academic staff retention. This study recommends managers of Higher Education to pay attention to designing conducive work environment, to invest strategically in technology to improve learning and management, improve welfare of employees, build trust among teams, design clear training and gender -sensitive policies to foster retention of faculty.