HR Practices for Attracting and Retaining Talent in it Organizations in Bangalore:The Employee Perspective

Any organization desires to have highly skilled and potential people on rolls who can become the competitive advantage for the company. Engaging such people requires a lot of motivation in terms of work, workplace culture, supervisors and of course compensation. There are many HR practices that an organization implements to engage people because engagement leads to productivity. The only way HR dept can sustain the competitive advantage is by continuously reinventing the fundamentals of people management. This paper is a part of a larger study on HR Practices and its relationship with employee retention. It attempts to explore the employees’ perspective of HR practices in the organization. The objective of this research paper is to understand what employees think about organizational practices. In order to carry out the study Focus group discussions were conducted with thirty IT employees of different levels in Bangalore. Analysis of responses is done using the software Nvivo10. Themes have been drawn and discussed in detail. It emphasizes the need for organizations to adapt employee friendly practices to attract and retain the top talent.