QUESTIONNAIRE A Study on various retention strategies practiced in IT sector

NOTE: NAME: ORGANISATION: DESIGNATION: AGE: 1. Which of the factor influence an employee to stay or leave the organization? Please highlight your answers for multi-choice questions Write your rate on the rating questions Please select your answers by * symbol for five scale questions

a) Motivation fit d) Company direction

b) External Rewards e) Home life

c) Co-operation and trust f) Workplace discard

2. Under motivation fit, where does the reason lie for an employee to leave the organization? a) Quality of relationship with supervisor or manager b) Amount of meaningful work c) Clear understanding of work objectives d) Level of challenges in work e) Autonomy Freedom to direct work f) How well individual goals and style match the organisations. 3. Under external reward, where does the reason lie for an employee to leave the organization?

a) Quality of compensation package

b) Opportunities for growth and development c) Link between pen and individual contributions d) Company responsiveness to need and request e) Amount of recognition for work 4. Under Co-operation and trust, where does the reason lie for an employee to leave the organization? a) Level of co-operation and trust with co workers b) Level of co-operation and trust with supervisor c) Level of co-operation and trust with sub-ordinates d) Level of trust in workplace

5. Under company direction, where does the reason lie for an employee to leave the organization? a) Quality of mission and strategy from Senior management b) Ability of organisations selection process c) In effective policies d) In effective administration

6. Under Home life, where does the reason lie for an employee to leave the organization? a) Ability to balance work and home life b) Desirability of employees geographic location.

7. Under Workplace discord where does the reason lie for an employee to leave the organization? a) Amount of job stress b) Volatility of work environment , downsizings and mergers

c) Amount of internal politics/bureaucracy d) Physical strains

8. Building brand recognition is a tool of retention. a) Strongly agree b) Agree c) Undecided d) Disagree e) Strongly disagree

9. What are the retention strategies practiced in your organization to retain employees?

10. Is there any unique retention strategy which is followed only in your organisation? a) Yes b) No

11. If Yes, to specify

12. Is there any strategy which can be adopted to retain employees?

Retention Performance Score On a scale of 1 4, with 1 being lowest and 4 the highest, rate how well your organization uses each retention strategy. Proactive Retention Strategies 13.We identify and document initial expectations and interests of our new employee. 14.We communicate with new employee regularly during their first year to ensure their initial expectations are met. 15. We contact existing employee regularly to discuss their experiences and understand their evolving needs. 16.We collect, review and manage employee intelligence (e.g.,needs, feedback, participation) 17.We help employees connect with others and participate in our community. 18.We listen to employees concerns, provide timely follow-up, and let them know are issues are being addressed. 19.We reward employees for their loyalty to usfor providing feedback, referring others and for their renewals. 20.We recognize our best employees and provide unique or special opportunities to show our appreciation. 21. We share a strategic plan with employees and regularly communicate about our goals and accomplishments. 22. We evaluate and modify our benefits to align more with our employees current and evolving needs. 23. We develop, refine, and maintain a retention plan which includes retention goals, strategies, action plans to Implement and a budget. 24.We allocate resources (e.g., time, money and people) for retention planning, implementation, and to perform associated activities. 1 2 3 4

Effectiveness of various strategies which is currently practiced

S.no 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

Strategies ESOP Profit sharing Open culture Exit interview Survey of retained employees Retention rate benchmarking Job enrichment Survey feedback

Highly effective

Effective

Undecided

Ineffective

Highly ineffective

33. What according to you is retention in your organization?

a) Retaining employees

b) Retaining talent

c) Both a and b

34. Where does the role of HR place in implementing retention strategy

a) Pre-implementation

b) Post-implementation

c) Both a and b

35. Does the HR face the problem and then design the strategies or design the strategy to face the problem?

a) Face the problem and then design b) Both a and b

b) Design the strategies to face the problem