Employee empowerment and turnover intentions

These days high employee turnover is a serious for the organizations. To deal with the problem of employee turnover organizations are adopting various measures. One such measure adopted by organizations is employee empowerment. This research paper aims to study turnover intentions of the employees and its relationship with employee empowerment of employees working in corporate sector in Delhi NCR region. Reducing employee turnover is a serious concern for HR Practitioners these days. Spreitzer (1995) scale was used to capture meaning, competence, impact and self-determination dimensions of empowerment. Colarelli (1984) scale was used to measure turnover intentions. Data was collected online by sharing link via email and Whatapp for the questionnaire created through Google Drive. A total of 107 responses were used for data analysis. It was found that overall employee empowerment score as perceived by employees in corporate sector is high for female employees as compared to male employees but the difference is not statistically significant. It was further found that employee empowerment is negatively related with turnover intentions.