A study on Employee Retention Strategies in Indian Manufacturing Industries

The present study aims to show the results of review of literature related to Employee retention practices in India in the last five years (2012-2016). The method used to obtain literature was mainly based on electronic search using Google Scholar and J-Gate plus, with key words such as: Employee Retention, Employee Turnover, Employee Attrition and Retention, Employees intention to leave organisations, which yielded 350 results out of this with the inclusion criteria like Only Empirical studies done on Indian Manufacturing organisations, Published between 2012 and 2016. 38 studies from different authors and journals were evaluated. The findings of the study suggest the existence of 43 different variables practiced by different organisations to Retain employees in the organisation. The results of the study will allow researchers to better understand the major Employees retention practices, which can be studied how each variable effective or ineffective in Retaining Employees. This study makes three important contributions to literature of Employees Retention. First in this study all the parameters associated with Employee Retention were checked. Second, this study analyses the enormity of Employee Turnover, and third, provides suggestions to organisations to improve some of its strategic features to control Employee Turnover.