Sustainable HR Practices and Its Influence on Employee Turnover

Sustainable HR practices are created in or to reduce employee turnover, avoid attrition, induce retention and propel employee engagement. Some of the common Sustainable HR practices that involve concepts of sustainability in practice and processes related to Performance management, Sustainable employee development, Compensation and benefits, Work place policies, employee engagement etc. The Sustainable HR practices primarily aims to create an environment for the employees to bring in best productivity and to improve employee satisfaction and to build a positive sustainable work place culture in an attempt to contribute in overall success of the organization. Sustainable HR practices or Green HR are policies and procedures structured to manage the company’s employees effectively and to keep them engaged. This study tries to learn about the various Sustainable HR Policies followed in IT organization and also tries to find out if it can be a useful tool in controlling attrition. The study was carried out in a leading information technology company to study if their Sustainable HR practices can help in reducing employee turnover. The HR personnel and Employees who left the organization were interviewed to provide data for the study. Further tools like correlation and Friedman test were also used which supported the theory that Sustainable HR Practice or Green HR policies has a positive relationship with Job satisfaction. This study contributes by providing insights of a successful Sustainable Human Resource Practice and by filling the gap of less literature on Relationship between Sustainable HR practices and Employee turnover in IT sector of India.