An Empirical Study on Teacher Retention in Guwahati City

Abstract

Employee retention is one of the important aspect of Human Resource Management function. In simplest words employee retention can be defined as the initiatives or steps taken by the employing organizations so that the employees stay back in their jobs. Retaining the existing employees has become difficult for the organizations because of the competition that exist in the environment. Every organization always tries to keep its employees satisfied so that they render their services to the organizations on a continuous basis. Much work has been done in this area of study, however much more scope is still left for the researchers to work in this area. Services sector, including educational institutions, is one of the most important sectors in the society and it is also important to find out how an important part of these sector i.e., the teachers are managed by the organizations. Teaching profession is one of the most respectable professions in the society. Teaching profession is becoming very popular nowadays because of the status it carries and due to many other associated advantages, but retaining them has also become difficult because of the large number of opportunities available in the environment. The present study tries to find out the association between the importance given by the employees to the retention effort and the pre identified individual retention factors as well as the relationship between the performance of the retention initiatives as per the employees and the pre identified retention factors. The present paper also tried to identify the relationship of the retention factors with that of job satisfaction among the teachers working in Guwahati city.