Job hopping and turnover intentions: An empirical study

Retaining employees has become a major challenge for IT firms in India. Job hopping has become a common phenomenon these days. Due to increased opportunities in the labor market, people find it easier now to change jobs. Engaging individuals at work has become quite essential for their retention at workplace. Employee engagement helps in decreasing employees’ deviant behavior at workplace and keeps them motivated to contribute more towards organization.

The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between Job Hopping and Turnover Intentions and explore the mediating effect of Employee Engagement, if any, on the same.

The present study was done on a sample of 210 employees belonging to IT/ITES companies in Delhi/NCR region. Variables in the study were assessed using three validated Instruments Descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Linear regression analysis.

The results showed that job hopping attitude contributed statistically significantly to high turnover intention and low employee engagement. Employee engagement found to be negatively correlated with turnover intentions. Employee engagement fully mediated the relationship between job hopping attitude and turnover intention.

Good HR practices should be developed, because it helps in increasing employee engagement. High employment engagement in turn leads to lower turnover intentions and increases affective commitment among employees.