Factors affecting employee retention / Siti Safiah Safian

• Main Author: Safian, Siti Safiah
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Retention of employees
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87363/1/87363.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87363/

Human Resources (HR) department is very vital in any organization. Even the development of technology is quite emerging, the HR people still need to face the challenges as they must keep managing and to be retain skilled employees play an important role for any organization as employee knowledge and skills are essential to companies' ability to be economically competitive. The study has completed on the several factors that may be important to the employees' retention. The objective of the study is to investigate the factors that will affect the employee's retention in a company. This research focused on the factors of job satisfaction which comprises compensation, work environment and work-life balance. Meanwhile, the dependent variable is employee's retention. This study is conducted by distributing a structural questionnaires to 100 respondents from private sector in the district of Tangkak. The researcher use statistic such as descriptive and correlation test like Pearson's Correlation and others to determine the significant relationship between dependent and independent variables. From the finding, work life balance shows as the main factor affecting the employee retention in the district of Tangkak. In the recommendations, the future researcher should expend the study in a professional way and for those employers, they should create a positive relationship with their employees at all level of position.