Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 7

A Study on Factors Influencing on Employee Attrition in IT Sector

*Assistant Professor, SSM School of Management, India

**Director, KSR College of Engineering and Technology, India

Online published on 2 July, 2016.

Abstract

Employee attrition is caused due to the ineffective human resource policies of the company. The rate of attrition in the Information Technology (IT) sector is more than the other industries. The employees are assuming several challenges in their work day by day. Target based work has been assigned to the employees working in the IT companies. Target accomplishment is tough in many times and it leads for employee attrition. This study is started with the intention to test the factors influencing employee attrition and covers a sample of 50 in Tamilnadu. A well-structured interview method is followed and detailed questionnaire is presented to collect data from the respondents. This study was conducted with the help of primary data and secondary data. Descriptive statistics employed to analyze personal profile of respondents; Chi-square test deals relationship between personal profile of the respondents and satisfaction with the current job. T-test and ANOVA is calculated to analyze the factors influencing attrition of employees in the work place. It is concluded that various factors are having influence on employee attrition.

Keywords

Employee Attrition, Attrition factors, manufacturing sectors, monetary expectations, non-monetary expectations