"Job hopping" by scientists and engineers is an important channel for knowledge diffusion. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of actions firms take to reduce the outward flow of know-how and talent from their own organizations. Building on theories of reputation-building and...

Objective - High voluntary turnover rate has become the focus of most employers and scholars in related fields. Although employers have attempted to use a variety of retention strategies to retain qualified and skilled employees, the turnover rate remains high in the vast majority of industries...

Employee retention is the foremost problem; which all organizations are now facing in the global competitive environment. In this conceptual paper, the author has attempted to bring out some employee retention approaches, which have eveloped over a period of time, in the industrial and Internet...