A Study on Employee Retention in Higher Education with Special Reference to Thanjavur District
Keywords:
Work environment, Career advancement, Organizational stress, Job security, Job satisfactionAbstract
Faculty preservation and employee earnings are most important anxiety for higher education institutions since they are behind extremely qualified staff to the private sector and to other higher education institutions that are talented to offer better rewards and remuneration. The turnover of talented staff is, therefore, a major concern for the institution under investigation. The retention and voluntary turnover assessments among a workforce of 4651 employees were thus inspected. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted by means of the objective analysis of managerial data in arrangement with the structured questionnaire managerial climate investigation. explanatory and inferential information was used to investigate the data across socio-demographic groups, including gender, age, educational qualification employment category (Academic as well as professional and support), etc. The study discusses the reasons why a particular sector faces more attrition as compared to another. The research has been conducted in the academic organizations such as the universities and colleges of Thanjavur district region as per the objectives of the research.
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