Research Proposal: Employee Retention Strategies in the IT Sector

This research proposal investigates employee retention strategies within the IT industry. It begins by outlining the background, aims, objectives, and research questions related to employee turnover and retention. The study aims to identify the main reasons for employee turnover, the consequences of this turnover, and the effective strategies that IT organizations can implement to retain their workforce. The literature review examines existing research on employee retention, highlighting key findings and the challenges faced by IT companies. The methodology chapter details the research approach, including the use of a deductive approach, descriptive design, and both primary and secondary data collection methods. The data collection process will involve survey questionnaires and a review of relevant articles. The sampling method will involve a mixture of people from every demographic who are in close proximity with information technology industries. The study will have a sample size of 50 participants. The proposal also acknowledges the limitations of the study, particularly those related to data collection, such as participant willingness and accessibility. The research aims to provide valuable insights into effective retention strategies within the IT sector.

Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Research Proposal
Topic: Employee Retention Strategies in IT Industry
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction..............................................................................................................2
1.1 Background of the study..................................................................................................2
1.2 Research Aims and Objectives.........................................................................................2
1.3 Research Questions..........................................................................................................3
1.4 Problem Statement...........................................................................................................3
1.5 Rationale of the study.......................................................................................................4
Chapter 2: Literature Review.....................................................................................................4
2.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................4
2.2 Findings of the Study.......................................................................................................4
Chapter 3: Research Methodology.............................................................................................6
3.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................6
3.2 Method Outline................................................................................................................6
3.3 Data Collection Process...................................................................................................7
3.4 Sampling Method.............................................................................................................7
3.5 Sample Size......................................................................................................................8
3.6 Limitations of the study...................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
It is extremely important that the IT industry hostages build up for retaining
employees within the organisation. The policies and practices within an organisation need to
be satisfying enough for the employees in fulfilling the diverse needs and also for creating a
work environment which will encourage the employees to stay within the organisations. The
act of retaining employees is mostly taken as a function of human resource management
department but they can also be deliberate and serious effort from the sides of the
management in this case. It can also be found that the competitors within the industry trying
to snatch away the talent acquisition that an organisation already has. This can probably be
done to reduce the effort of making the employees be ready for working within a work
environment. However it is extremely important that an organisation understands the
importance of retaining employees within the organisation since the employees are also
considered as one of the most valuable assets of an entire organisation. This following
research paper would thus discuss about the strategies that IT organisations follow to retain
their employees.
1.2 Research Aims and Objectives
Aim: The primary aim of this research is to find out what it organisations all around
the world utilizes as the strategy to make sure that the employees do not leave the company.
Putting it in a simpler way, the research would go through the aim of finding out the
appropriate strategies that information technology organisations mostly adapt to retain their
employees.

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Objectives: The objectives of the research can be presented as follows:
 To find out the reasons behind the employees leaving an organisation
 To find out the conditions of the organisations before an employee leaves an
organisation.
 To find out relevant information about the work environment of an
organisation; if they are suitable enough for employees
 To find out the strategies that organisations implement for retaining the
workforce they have.
1.3 Research Questions
The research questions regarding this following topic taken for the study depend upon
the internal and external drivers of the retention crisis within the IT organisations. Therefore
the aspects of the IT organisations for retaining employees can have the following research
questions built around as follows:
 What are the main reasons behind the turnover of employees?
 What are the consequences and impact of turnover of an employee?
 What are the retention strategies that organisations term is important in the IT
sectors?
 What are the strategies and efforts that it organisations undertake for retaining
their employees?
1.4 Problem Statement
It has been found the turnover in the IT organisations have been occurring at random
rate which is making a lot of organisations face problems because of the abrupt resource loss
within the organisations. Therefore this research would find out all the relevant strategies that

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organisations can apply within the business structure to make sure that the employees are
retained. This is the primary problem that the research is aimed at solving.
1.5 Rationale of the study
Employees are regarded as one of the primary assets and resources within
organisation; therefore, it is very important that an organisation has adopted the perfect
strategies that would retain employees rather than having turnovers one after another.
Therefore, analysing the strategies adopted by it industries to find out the best and the worst
strategy that an organisation can apply is rationalised as a proposal to be studied through.
Chapter 2: Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
The literature review need to be conducted to find out what the previous researchers
have already research about employee retention strategies in organisations specially focusing
upon the information technology ones. Thus, it would be essential to collect all the data
associated with the employee retention strategies in IT industries and the researchers that
have been made on this particular topic by previous researchers and authors. Thus, the
discussion the findings of the studying the secondary quantitative data collection method for
the literature review would be provided in this chapter.
2.2 Findings of the Study
According to Paul (2018), employee retention has been one of the greatest challenge
in the business world today and this depends how the organisation can cope up with that
speed in the type of technical growth. The job market in the information technology

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industries has been accidentally improvement themselves and during the last decade it has
been found that employee retention has become a much serious problem for organisations
like this. It has become much more difficult to retain the employees and the talent pool is
becoming more and more obsolete. The employee turnover has been continuing to be one of
the most appreciated issues in an organisation with several assumptions and conclusions
recorded about the turnover. According to Kumar (2018), it is also be found out that the
stakeholders involved in a particular issue involving the human resource managers as well as
the opportunity or potential of underestimate the employee turnover costs.
This is the reason that changes are to be made within an organisation in the internal
and external aspects as well for making sure that the most critical situations in the
organisation would also be able to be avoided with the adopted strategies. The primary
drivers that lead towards retention crisis are various. Some of the authors are of the opinion
that due to lack of company loyalty, they desire for challenging and useful work. This forms
the need of benefits from every aspect. To retain the employees it is also important that
organisations appreciate for identify the employees that need to be retained for making a
difference within the organisation. This is one of the most primary strategies that
organisations should adopt to understand what employee should be retained and how the
employee retention strategies would be formulated for these employees. The retention moral
should be read think about and recruitment would be utilised as a retention strategy. Greeting
of the retention model should also include the principles of finding out why employees leave
a job, why employees refrain from building a unique relationship with the supervisors and
why organisations should adopt to enable a strategy to retain employees.

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Chapter 3: Research Methodology
3.1 Introduction
It is important that the study follows a research methodology so that it would be easier
to understand what research approach, Research Design and Research theory is being applied
to the study for analysing the strategies adopted by IT organisations in in employee retention.
Therefore, the following chapter in this case would elaborate what are the method outlines
that are utilised within this study consisting of the data collection process, sampling method,
sample size and limitations of the study.
3.2 Method Outline
The methods that would be applied for analysing the strategies for retaining
employees in information technology organisations would be based on the research
methodology for evaluating the contact. For this particular method the theory of positivism
would be appropriate for the research methodology for gaining a comprehensive idea about
the topic as well as the information while evaluating the strategies for employee retention in
information technology organisations. At the same time the research approach that the case
can apply would be the deductive approach for having the analysis and the study based on the
secondary data source. Lastly it might be elaborated that the undertaking of descriptive
design as the Research Design would be appropriate for this particular study as it would be
able to extract all the hidden information regarding the raw data that would be formulated
through the analysis process.

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3.3 Data Collection Process
The data collection method in this regard would be selected as both primary and
secondary data collection methods since it is appropriate that both this process is would be
utilised in the terms of quantitative data collection method. The primary data collection
method in quantitative methodology would bring about a survey questionnaire that would
help in asking a selected set of participants some questions about the undertaken study so that
they could answer them according to their own thinking. The secondary research method
would comprise of selecting a set of articles that are based on the research in the same
undertaken topic done by previous researchers and analyses and reviewing them. The data
collected on the information gathered through this literature review process would from the
base of creating the questionnaires for the primary data collection method, where the
participants will be provided with a set of questionnaires for them to answer.
3.4 Sampling Method
Sampling method is the collection of the number of data that has been gathered
through the primary data collection method in the quantitative approach. It can be said that
not all the participants in the questionnaires would be willing to answer all the questions in
the research data collection method. The sampling would be a mixture of people from every
demographic who are in close proximity with information technology industries and a custom
to the strategies that organisations apply for retaining the employees. To continue with the
research in a full-fledged way, it is important that a participant answers all the questions that
have been offered in the questionnaire sheet. If a participant does not answer all of them then
it would be discarded. Out of all the questionnaires that the participants at filled out entirely
would be collected for the data analysis.

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3.5 Sample Size
The sample size selected for this research process would be regarded as the number of
people that have fully answered all the set of questions within the questionnaires. Amongst
all the complete answers 50 of them would be selected for the final data analysis process.
3.6 Limitations of the study
Other than the smooth conduction of the research process there are also limitations
within the study that caused problems with name the research procedure and they might be
causing delay in the overall research structure. This will comprise of the limitations that
would occur in the primary data collection method. Through this it can be said that not all
participants would be ready and it would not be ethical to coax them into answering all the
questions for taking part in the questionnaires. It may also occur that not all the participants
would be ready to meet face to face and answer the questionnaires. Some of them even want
to convey the message is over phone and that too would not have any permission to record.
For these situations, it would be only depend upon the memory of the research analyst to
record the data in this way.

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