Employee Turnover and Retention: Factors and Strategies

This presentation discusses two articles on employee turnover and retention strategies. The first article focuses on the major determinants of employee turnover and suggests retention strategies based on the same. The second article reviews relevant literature to find factors that encourage employee retention and maintain a lower turnover rate. Both articles contribute to the field of Human Resource Management by helping to understand the major shifts in the human resource paradigms, building upon the relationship between organizational conditions and employee turnover, and finding factors having an impact on the organizational retention rate.

HRMT20024 Assessment
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Week 11
Week 11 Employee turnover and retention
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 Article 1:
Al Mamun, C. A., & Hasan, M. N. (2017). Factors
affecting employee turnover and sound retention
strategies in business organization: a conceptual
view. Management (open-access), 15(1), 63-71.
 Article 2:
Kossivi, B., Xu, M., & Kalgora, B. (2016). Study on
determining factors of employee retention. Open
Journal of Social Sciences, 4(05), 261.
References of your two
articles

 Objective:
The primary objective of the given study is to understand
and determine the different literature available with
respect to the given topic. The paper also aims to
suggest certain ways in which the employees will be able
to get motivated by adoption of these strategies.
 Method
 The given paper makes use of a conceptual framework
which has been used to show the major determinants of
the concept of employee turnover and certain retention
strategies have been given based on the same.
Article 1 (Factors affecting employee
turnover and retention strategies)

 Argument:
The argument as represented by the author
states down the various reasons why an
employee within an organization will remain
and the strategies have been built which
would help a firm to increase its turnover rate.
 Conclusion:
It was found that the management needs to
inculcate various practices which will help the
organization to reduce the turnover rate.
Article 1

 Objective:
The given article researches upon earlier
studies made on the similar field, with the aim of
finding the factors which encourage employee
retention and helps in maintaining a lower
turnover rate.
 Method
The method followed in the given article is
that various relevant literature on the related
topic has been reviewed with respect to work
environment, social support, compensation and
work life balance.
Article 2 (Determining factors of
Employee Retention)

 Argument:
The argument as represented by the author
states to argue whether different factors in an
organization have an impact on the employee
retention and if so, how profound was their
influence.
 Conclusion:
It was concluded that factors like compensation,
organization leadership and culture are some
factors influencing the organization and the
employees which motivates them to stay .
Article 2

 The given articles have contributed to the
field of Human Resource Management in
the following manner:
◦ It helps to understand the major shifts in the
human resource paradigms
◦ It builds upon the relationship between
organizational conditions and employee
turnover
◦ It redefines and states the importance of
employee retention and firm`s staff turnover.
◦ It helps in finding factors having an impact on
the organizational retention rate.
Contribution of articles to the
topic