The publishers of European Journal of Training and Development, wish to retract the article “Human resource development (HRD) practices and banking industry effectiveness: The mediating role of employee competencies” by Frank Nana Kweku Otoo, which appeared in Vol. 43 Nos 3-4, pp. 250-271. It has come to our attention that a large proportion of this article is copied, without attribution, from several earlier articles. These articles are as follows:
Otoo, F., Otoo, E., Abledu, G. and Bhardwaj, A. (2019), “Impact of human resource development (HRD) practices on pharmaceutical industry’s performance: the mediating role of employee performance”, European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 43 Nos 1-2, pp. 188-210, Link to Impact of human resource development (HRD) practices on pharmaceutical industry’s performance: the mediating role of employee performanceLink to the cited article.
Otoo, F. and Mishra, M. (2018), “Influence of human resource development (HRD) practices on hotel industry’s performance: the role of employee competencies”, European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 42 Nos 7-8, pp. 435-454, Link to Influence of human resource development (HRD) practices on hotel industry’s performance: the role of employee competenciesLink to the cited article.
Otoo, F. and Mishra, M. (2018), “Measuring the impact of human resource development (HRD) practices on employee performance in small and medium scale enterprises”, European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 42 Nos 7/8, pp. 517-534, Link to Measuring the impact of human resource development (HRD) practices on employee performance in small and medium scale enterprisesLink to the cited article.
Potnuru, R. and Sahoo, C. (2016), “HRD interventions, employee competencies and organizational effectiveness: an empirical study”, European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 40 No. 5, pp. 345-365. Link to HRD interventions, employee competencies and organizational effectiveness: an empirical studyLink to the cited article.
The European Journal of Training and Development submission guidelines make it clear that articles must be original and must not infringe any existing copyright. The publishers of the journal sincerely apologize to the readers and the original authors of the above mentioned articles.
