Effect of Motivational Factors on Employee Retention in Humanitarian Sector in Islamabad

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the effect of motivational factors on employee retention in humanitarian of Pakistan. Also, this paper sheds light on the current level of motivation among employees and the existence of relationship between the employee retention and various motivational factors. Pakistan is a developing country with the great potential to flourish in humanitarian sector. So it’s very important to find the gray areas and work for its betterment. The literature presented that different motivational factors have different effect on employee retention and the influence of each factor is not same for all the sectors. Primary data has been collected through questionnaires and secondary data has been collected from various sources like books, published journal papers, websites etc. The findings revealed that employees were motivated with the all the factors taken into consideration while conducting the research. Moreover, correlation of retention with all the other variables is positive and significant. The entire hypotheses presented are accepted in this study showing that there is a significant and positive influence of independent variables on employee retention. Recommendations have been proposed to provide solutions to problems identified during the study.