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How 'organizational factors' outclass 'personal factors' in retaining Female Employees in Indian IT SMEs

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  • Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi
  • Aston, John
  • Kozlovski, Eugene

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The article examines organizational and personal factors in relation to the retention of the female workers in the IT SMEs. The organizations operating in the business cities of India were targeted using convenience sampling technique. In addition to that, purposive sampling was used for reaching only female participants. Total 250 females out of 380 completed survey from 30 different software SMEs. The findings of this cross-sectional study reflects that the effectiveness of organizational factors such as work-life balance practices and policies, supervisory support, and technological assistance enable female workers to exhibit higher performance under stress. Interestingly, the myth of personal factor such as personality, well-being, and emotional intelligence previously found to be effective, in actual does not improve retention rate of female workers at operational level. In addition to that, detailed analysis revealed that supervisory support is most closely interlinked with retention, followed by policies and procedures of Work Life Balance, and lastly technological assistance. Moreover, societal norms have significant role to certain extent in the creating retention related perception of female workers.

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  • Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi & Aston, John & Kozlovski, Eugene, 2017. "How 'organizational factors' outclass 'personal factors' in retaining Female Employees in Indian IT SMEs," MPRA Paper 80179, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    2. Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi & Sommerville, Steve, 2017. "Impact of Organizational Culture on the Indian I.T Workforce's Job Satisfaction and Stress: Qualitative Report from SMEs operating in Trivandruam," MPRA Paper 76991, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 13 Feb 2017.
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    4. Sree Lekshmi Sreekumaran Nair & Steve Sommerville, 2017. "Impact of Organizational Culture on the Indian I.T Workforce's Job Satisfaction and Stress: Qualitative Report from SMEs operating in Trivandruam," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 7(2), pages 237-246, February.
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    1. Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi & Aston, John & Kozlovski, Eugene, 2021. "The impact of organisational culture on occupational stress: Comparison of the SME IT sectors in India and the UK," MPRA Paper 109014, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 30 Mar 2021.
    2. Faizan, Riffat & Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi & Haque, Adnan ul, 2018. "The effectiveness of Feminine and Masculine Leadership styles in relation to contrasting gender's performances," MPRA Paper 87713, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 28 Mar 2018.
    3. Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi & Aston, John & Kozlovski, Eugene, 2021. "The Role of Work-Life Balance in the Retention of Female Employees in the IT Industry: Responses from the South Indian SME Software Sector," MPRA Paper 107549, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Sreekumaran Nair, Sree Lekshmi & Aston, John & Kozlovski, Eugene, 2019. "The Relationship between Organisational Culture and the Job Satisfaction levels of IT sector Employees in Contrasting Economies," MPRA Paper 96241, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 01 Sep 2019.

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    Keywords

    personal factors; organizational factors; retention strategies; female workforce; work-life balance;
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    JEL classification:

    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other
    • M59 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Other

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