The effect of autonomy and empowerment on women employee turnover with special reference to it industries

IT companies have the probable to become foremost examples of women-friendly employers. There is a shift in the employment of women in IT firms and it is considerably increased over the years. Present study evaluates the impact of Autonomy and empowerment on women employee turnover of IT industries and to determine to what extent empowerment makes women employees to stick with the organization. The main objective of study is to determine the association between sixteen empowerment facets and decision of employees to stay with the organization and to determine the most important facet/dimension of empowerment which affect the women employee's decision to stay with the organization. For the purpose of research data has been collected from 15–25 companies of IT industry. The target geographic location for this study focuses on Gurugram ITes companies in which various factors affecting women employee turnover have been studied. The model explained 35.4 percent (Nagelkerke R square) of the variance in decision and correctly classified 83.1% of the cases. Decision to stay in organization depends on Communication empowerment. Factor analyses technique has revealed that women employees gives high importance to flexibility in working hours and their job should allow proper work life balance.