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Factors Influencing Employees’ Retention in Healthcare Organizations of West Bengal: An Empirical Study


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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Haldia Institute of Management, Haldia, West Bengal, India
2 Professor and In-Charge TAG, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata, India
3 Associate Professor & Head of Department, School of Management & Social Science, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, Pin-721657
 

Healthcare organizations provide specialized services wherein the main purpose is to cater to the patient’s needs. These specialized services can be provided by experienced, knowledgeable, and talented key people who have the capability of handling difficult situations. Hiring such employees is the need and moreover, retaining these employees has become a challenge nowadays. Poaching has emerged as one of the major problems of the healthcare industry as the demand for such employees is increasing day by day. The main purpose of this study is to identify the factors which will influence the retention of employees in healthcare organizations. In this paper, both primary and secondary data were used. SPSS and AMOS software was also used. Then in this research study, the regression analysis was conducted from the factors identified in this study.

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Employee Retention, Healthcare, Poaching, Turnover, Regression.
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Authors

Puja Tiwari
Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Haldia Institute of Management, Haldia, West Bengal, India
Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay
Professor and In-Charge TAG, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata, India
Arunangshu Giri
Associate Professor & Head of Department, School of Management & Social Science, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, Pin-721657

Abstract


Healthcare organizations provide specialized services wherein the main purpose is to cater to the patient’s needs. These specialized services can be provided by experienced, knowledgeable, and talented key people who have the capability of handling difficult situations. Hiring such employees is the need and moreover, retaining these employees has become a challenge nowadays. Poaching has emerged as one of the major problems of the healthcare industry as the demand for such employees is increasing day by day. The main purpose of this study is to identify the factors which will influence the retention of employees in healthcare organizations. In this paper, both primary and secondary data were used. SPSS and AMOS software was also used. Then in this research study, the regression analysis was conducted from the factors identified in this study.

Keywords


Employee Retention, Healthcare, Poaching, Turnover, Regression.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.23862/kiit-parikalpana%2F2023%2Fv19%2Fi2%2F223459