Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah. David M. Paxton is president and CEO.
The company owns 32 daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, mostly in the southern United States. Daily circulation totals 350,000. Holdings include The Paducah Sun, The Herald-Sun in Durham, North Carolina, The High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina, the Jonesboro Sun in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the Daily Star in Hammond, Louisiana and The Daily Citizen in Searcy, Arkansas. In 1998, the company purchased Nixon Newspapers Inc which included the Wabash Plain Dealer, located in Wabash, Indiana.
In 2007, Paxton Media Group purchased three Indiana newspapers: the Marion Chronicle-Tribune (in July) from the Gannett Foundation; the Huntington Herald-Press (in May) from the Quayle family; and the LaPorte County Herald-Argus from Small Newspaper Group (in September).
• Ten years of experience in Organizational Development /Talent Management and Generalist Human Resource Responsibilities
• Progressed quickly with additional responsibilities and job roles
Expertise in the following:
• Business/Financial Acumen -Degree in Business/experience in operations
• Project Management and Process Improvement
• Advised executive level leaders
• Consulting Work in the following industries: Energy and Utilities, Manufacturing, Retail, Finance, Healthcare, IT
Certifications:
• DDI Certified Facilitator Leadership and Workforce Development curriculum
• DDI Certified Facilitator in Interviewer Training
• CSi Certified Facilitator for Career Development Training
• SPHR certification
Specialties
Talent Management includes: Talent Acquisition (selection & assessment - legal compliance), Development (leadership and workforce), Performance Management (accountability and execution), and Succession Planning (identifying and promoting the right leaders)
Marketing: Experience in delivering high quality marketing programs and processes to drive new and existing customer expansion.
Retention has a direct and causal relationship with employee needs and motivation. Applying a motivation theory model, such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, is an effective way of identifying effective retention protocol.[2]
Each of the five tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs relates to optimal retention strategy. Since Maslow’s introduction of his motivation model, organizations have been employing strategies attempting to stimulate each of the five humanitarian needs described above to optimize retention rates. 4 When applied to the organizational model, meeting the self-actualization and esteem needs of an employee tend to correlate to better retention. Physiological, safety, and social needs are important as well, however, and must be addressed to better the work environment. 4 While implementing a retention strategy is ideal, successful satisfying all five needs of employees is not only difficult, but also expensive. That being said, managers who attempt to maximize employee need coverage tend to be more concerned with employee satisfaction.
In order to retain employees and reduce turnover managers must learn to align their goals with the end goals of employees. By aligning the rewards and needs of employees, managers can determine the proper reward system to most effectively increase job satisfaction of employees . Valence is the degree to which the rewards offered by an organization align with the needs employees seek to fulfill. High valence indicates that the needs of employees are aligned well with the rewards system an organization offers. Conversely, low valence is a poor alignment of needs with rewards and can lead to low job satisfaction and thereby increase turnover and decrease retention. Expectancy theory implementation has several other aspects that can lead to high job satisfaction and high retention rates for organizations. Increasing expectancy in an organization can be done by properly training employees and thereby making them more confident in their abilities. Increasing instrumentality within an organization will be part of implementing a proper rewards system for attainment of specific goals and accomplishments.
Employee retention refers to the efforts by which employers attempt to retain employees in their workforce. In a business setting, the goal of employers is to decrease employee turnover, training costs, and loss of talent. By implementing lessons learned from key organizational behavior concepts employers can improve retention rates and decrease the associated costs of high turnover.
Paxton Media Group owns and operates numerous newspapers throughout the Eastern and Southern United States and is the local NBC affiliate. This facility was constructed to unify upper management offices from WPSD-TV and the Paducah Sun into a new corporate management center. It consists of offices for the CEO, accounting, and department managers as well as a corporate board room.
This 50,000 sf facility resulted from the total renovation of an existing four story windowless department store. The existing "Paducah Dry" department store remained vacant for 5 years prior to acquisition by Peoples First Corporation. The facility received total renovation including replacement of the exterior brick veneer wall with limestone, travertine marble and glass curtain wall system. The completed facility provides an efficient open plan office system and recently the teller line was moved to the newly renovated ground floor.
Since becoming the architects for Western Baptist Hospital in 1969, PFGW Inc. has completed over $50 million in major additions and renovations including the complete renovation of the original hospital facility. Major expansions include a six story patient wing, oncology department, dietary department, surgery and recovery, nursery expansion, doctor's office building and special care units. Major renovations include nursery, obstetrics and gynecology departments, intensive and critical care units, administration, emergency, admitting and administration and other major improvements.
This 230,000 sf / 800+ student facility was completed in 2001, becoming one of Kentucky's largest high schools with all the required support facilities as well as two gymnasiums and a media center. The school is not only one of the Commonwealth's largest, but it boasts of an 800 seat, state of the art Performing Arts Center complete with dressing rooms, a dance rehearsal studio, orchestra pit and a full fly loft.
The company owns 32 daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, mostly in the southern United States. Daily circulation totals 350,000. Holdings include The Paducah Sun, The Herald-Sun in Durham, North Carolina, The High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina, the Jonesboro Sun in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the Daily Star in Hammond, Louisiana and The Daily Citizen in Searcy, Arkansas. In 1998, the company purchased Nixon Newspapers Inc which included the Wabash Plain Dealer, located in Wabash, Indiana.
In 2007, Paxton Media Group purchased three Indiana newspapers: the Marion Chronicle-Tribune (in July) from the Gannett Foundation; the Huntington Herald-Press (in May) from the Quayle family; and the LaPorte County Herald-Argus from Small Newspaper Group (in September).
• Ten years of experience in Organizational Development /Talent Management and Generalist Human Resource Responsibilities
• Progressed quickly with additional responsibilities and job roles
Expertise in the following:
• Business/Financial Acumen -Degree in Business/experience in operations
• Project Management and Process Improvement
• Advised executive level leaders
• Consulting Work in the following industries: Energy and Utilities, Manufacturing, Retail, Finance, Healthcare, IT
Certifications:
• DDI Certified Facilitator Leadership and Workforce Development curriculum
• DDI Certified Facilitator in Interviewer Training
• CSi Certified Facilitator for Career Development Training
• SPHR certification
Specialties
Talent Management includes: Talent Acquisition (selection & assessment - legal compliance), Development (leadership and workforce), Performance Management (accountability and execution), and Succession Planning (identifying and promoting the right leaders)
Marketing: Experience in delivering high quality marketing programs and processes to drive new and existing customer expansion.
Retention has a direct and causal relationship with employee needs and motivation. Applying a motivation theory model, such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, is an effective way of identifying effective retention protocol.[2]
Each of the five tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs relates to optimal retention strategy. Since Maslow’s introduction of his motivation model, organizations have been employing strategies attempting to stimulate each of the five humanitarian needs described above to optimize retention rates. 4 When applied to the organizational model, meeting the self-actualization and esteem needs of an employee tend to correlate to better retention. Physiological, safety, and social needs are important as well, however, and must be addressed to better the work environment. 4 While implementing a retention strategy is ideal, successful satisfying all five needs of employees is not only difficult, but also expensive. That being said, managers who attempt to maximize employee need coverage tend to be more concerned with employee satisfaction.
In order to retain employees and reduce turnover managers must learn to align their goals with the end goals of employees. By aligning the rewards and needs of employees, managers can determine the proper reward system to most effectively increase job satisfaction of employees . Valence is the degree to which the rewards offered by an organization align with the needs employees seek to fulfill. High valence indicates that the needs of employees are aligned well with the rewards system an organization offers. Conversely, low valence is a poor alignment of needs with rewards and can lead to low job satisfaction and thereby increase turnover and decrease retention. Expectancy theory implementation has several other aspects that can lead to high job satisfaction and high retention rates for organizations. Increasing expectancy in an organization can be done by properly training employees and thereby making them more confident in their abilities. Increasing instrumentality within an organization will be part of implementing a proper rewards system for attainment of specific goals and accomplishments.
Employee retention refers to the efforts by which employers attempt to retain employees in their workforce. In a business setting, the goal of employers is to decrease employee turnover, training costs, and loss of talent. By implementing lessons learned from key organizational behavior concepts employers can improve retention rates and decrease the associated costs of high turnover.
Paxton Media Group owns and operates numerous newspapers throughout the Eastern and Southern United States and is the local NBC affiliate. This facility was constructed to unify upper management offices from WPSD-TV and the Paducah Sun into a new corporate management center. It consists of offices for the CEO, accounting, and department managers as well as a corporate board room.
This 50,000 sf facility resulted from the total renovation of an existing four story windowless department store. The existing "Paducah Dry" department store remained vacant for 5 years prior to acquisition by Peoples First Corporation. The facility received total renovation including replacement of the exterior brick veneer wall with limestone, travertine marble and glass curtain wall system. The completed facility provides an efficient open plan office system and recently the teller line was moved to the newly renovated ground floor.
Since becoming the architects for Western Baptist Hospital in 1969, PFGW Inc. has completed over $50 million in major additions and renovations including the complete renovation of the original hospital facility. Major expansions include a six story patient wing, oncology department, dietary department, surgery and recovery, nursery expansion, doctor's office building and special care units. Major renovations include nursery, obstetrics and gynecology departments, intensive and critical care units, administration, emergency, admitting and administration and other major improvements.
This 230,000 sf / 800+ student facility was completed in 2001, becoming one of Kentucky's largest high schools with all the required support facilities as well as two gymnasiums and a media center. The school is not only one of the Commonwealth's largest, but it boasts of an 800 seat, state of the art Performing Arts Center complete with dressing rooms, a dance rehearsal studio, orchestra pit and a full fly loft.