A Critical Assessment of Job Design and Employee Retention (With Special Reference to Management Institutes in Nasik City)

Job design is one of the important variables of Employee retention in the organization. As we know in today's era, employees are the lifeblood of the organization without them organization would not be able to survive. So retention of such life blood cells is paramount importance. Employee engaged in the organization for doing job or work, so job is designed in such a fashion which gives a feeling of satisfaction&comfort to the employee. Employee retention in the academic institutes is for reasons other than just good pay, benefits&other sundry perks. Intrinsic rewards are equally important as material reward. This means, employees value their job not only when they are rewarded but often because doing a job itself a rewarding experience. It is fulfilling, challenging, interesting&stimulation. Hence in this paper, researcher focused to correlate the factors of job design with employee retention.