Retention of employees is essential in an organization or an institution. The main objective of the study is to investigate employee retention practices in organizational productivity. The study specific objective is to investigate the effect of career development, and staff development and evaluate the relationship between compensation policy on employee retention among teaching staff at Gretsa University in Kenya. The research targets full-time lecturers and part-time lecturers. All heads of school management will take part in the questionnaire and each lecture from a different school. The qualitative methodology will be used to achieve the objective of the study. Distribution of the questionnaire to the target population at Gretsa University to teaching employees.