THE ROLE OF TRAINING AND WORK ENVIRONMENT ON RETENTION AND JOB SATISFACTION AS A MEDIATOR AT STARTUPS, BANGALORE

Purpose: Employee Retention is a buzz topic in today's Knowledge basedera, Very few empirical studies were carried out in the rapid-growing Startup sector and this present study address the gap in the literature. The Comprehensive literature reviews reported that Job Satisfaction is an important contributor of retention. Work environment and training are the topmost pertinent factors in raising the level of job Satisfaction towards organization. This paper investigates the impact of the above factors over Job satisfaction and explores the effects of Job satisfaction on retention and verifies the mediating effect of Job satisfaction on the relationship between proposed antecedents and employee retention. Design/methodology: A Structured Questionnaire framed, consisting of elements acquired from earlier literatures were used to collect the data. A Simple random sampling technique employed in selecting the sample size. Questionnaire has been circulated to various employees working in Startups located at Bangalore in India, 270 responses have been recorded and used for the analysis. Findings: Findings discloses that Job satisfaction influences retention and among the above factors work environment has significant relation with retention. In addition