A Study on Employee Engagement and its Impact on Employee Retention of College Teachers in Kolkata

Employee Engagement is considered to be one of the cornerstones of a successful organizational team performance. The more engaged employees are the more determined and focused they are in achieving the organizational goals. Engaged employees experience more job satisfaction, have less of absenteeism problems and are prone to stay in the organization for a long period of time thereby reducing turnover and achieving better employee retention rates. When Employee Retention is high in organizations, it is usually seen that employees have no lack of determination and self-motivation to achieve organizational goals. In fact employees with long tenure are seen to align with organizational goals with ease and without any resistance. Employees are the real assets of an organization and are a source of competitive advantage. Therefore retention of talent in the organization is useful for the overall development and growth of the organization. In this backdrop 231 college teachers were studied for finding out their level of employee engagement in their services. Further it also researched whether the employee engagement of the same participants had any impact on their retention levels. Statistical measures used in the research were mean, standard deviation, anova, regression and correlation. Cronbach Alpha was also used for checking the reliability of the construct scales.