Employee Involvement – A Study Based on Selected Public Undertakings
Keywords:
retention, employees’ commitment, contingent, labour marketAbstract
The success of an organization, largely, depends on its employees’ commitment towards it. But in this present competitive labour market, organizations are, mostly, experiencing retention challenges. Sometimes, to shorten their employee cost, presently, organizations are hiring different contingent categories of employees, such as, contractual, temporary, part time, etc., along with permanent employees. In this advent, the present study has analyzed the impact of employees’ type of employment on their overall job involvement using Mann-Whitney Mean Rankings.
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