The success of Indian Information Technology (IT) industry is dependent on the ability of the organizations to retain the human potential. However, profound changes in the occupational environment have implications for an individual's career development in this industry. Most of the employees...

Focusing on employee retention is vital to increase organizational performance and strengthen a nation's economy. Employee turnover leads to high unemployment and slow economic growth around the globe. The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons and motivating factors that cause...

Objective of this research is to study the effect of Perceived Organizational support at retention of employees with mediation of psychological empowerment in higher educational Institutions of Pakistan. Questionnaire of 31 items is adopted in which 8 item scales is adopted to measure Perceived...

Purpose: Although retention of employees has become hot topic in this career turbulent era, practically no empirical research is carried out in the fast growing ceramic sector till now and this research fills the gap in the literature. The literatures surveys reported that organization...

Summary This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting from a knowledge-based view the aim is to achieve a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of patent protection and the long-term retention of...

In order to gain competitive advantage, companies must determine the relationship between HR practices and firm performance. This conceptual paper proposes a model that highlights the importance of selecting people who “fit” within the organizational culture and climate of the firm. The...

A biodata based personnel selection measure was created to improve the retention rate of Catalog Telemarketing Representatives at a major U.S. retail company. Five separate empirical biodata scoring methods were compared to examine their usefulness in predicting retention and reducing adverse...

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that true wage changes have many fewer nominal cuts and more nominal freezes than reported nominal wage changes. The data overwhelmingly rejects a model of flexible wage changes and provides some evidence against a model of perfect downward...

Cendant International Assignment Services is a relocation company that specializes in managing and coordinating international and domestic moves for organizations all over the world. While some organizations maintain high levels of employee retention, others encounter difficulties with attrition...

Retention of key productive employees is a major challenge for all organisationslocally and internationally because the resulting churn created by replacingemployees that voluntarily leave the organisation costs the business both directlyand indirectly. The purpose of this study is to determine...