Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of Human Resource (HR) practices on employees’ retention in a private university. One hundred faculty members including male and female, out of 400, were randomly selected to collect data. A structured questionnaire was used having Alpha value of 0.94 in the result of pilot testing. Regression analysis was applied to find out the effect of human resource practices on employees’ retention. Results show that there is a significant effect of HR practices on employees’ retention. It is suggested that educational institutions may re-think and improve their HR practices in order to retain the valuable employees. Further research about the topic may also be conducted at all level institutions.
Introduction
Human resource practices are intentional in nature. These symbolize a vigorous supervision and organization that organizes the institution with professionals. Human resource practices from the substance subsidiary the way your institution’s human investment will function on your behalf. For instance, human resource practices contain framing a system for determining and analyzing the effects of an exact member recompenses package. Supplementary instances contain the formation of a package to decrease work-associated harms, and building a structure to confirm service rules are followed.
Conclusion
The results highlight that there is statistically significant relationship between HR practices and employees’ retention. The results further point out that HR practices have significant effect on employees’ retention. It can, therefore, be inferred that if institutions want to retain their employees they need to make the HR practices attractive to their employees. These findings are supported by various researchers such as Maqsood, et al. (2015). The present study which finds out the Relationship between HR practices and employee retention in a private university is an important effort in Pakistani context. Researcher believes that findings of this study would add an important facet to the existing body of knowledge in the field with reference to Pakistani organizational context. Since,the majority of the empirical studies which is related to the relationship between HR practices and employee retentionare from Western World and from United Arab Emirates.
