Success and failure of any organization depends on its human resource. Global explosion in business creates more opportunities, so people are highly mobile and not restricting to particular job. IT Industry, being a knowledge-based industry, a high intellectual capital lends competitive advantage to a firm. In IT, there are lots and lots of avenues and opportunities available in the hands of IT employees. The retention problem is highly persisted in IT industry. The shortage of manpower both in numbers and skills is a prime challenge for HR managers in IT units. The compensation, career planning and technological obsolescence are the facts for employee turnover in IT-Units. There are many other factors which influence employees to leave but HRD need to understand employee expectations from the organization, which can make them to stay long back and perform well. The demographic details of the IT professionals should also be considered while designing the retention strategies as some of these variables have proved to have influence on retention. The objective of this paper is to understand that, is there any relation in frequency of job change with growing age and does different retention factors influences on different age group. The result of this study shows that retention factors are same in the different age groups and number of job changed is not constant in different age group. The study area is selected IT-units in the Pune city.
HR Practice, IT Industry, Attrition, Employee Retention
