The impact of family-friendly workplaces on the retention of employee

Lim, Wei Shuang (2019) The impact of family-friendly workplaces on the retention of employee. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, family-friendly workplace is intended to help employees manage work and personal responsibilities together. The family-friendly workplace can give employers a major advantage in attracting and keeping hard-working employees long-term. The main objective of the researcher in this study is to identify the impact of family-friendly workplaces on the retention of employees. In this study, a quantitative research has been conducted based on questionnaire format. Data of this study will be collected from 384 respondents from different sizes and types of companies in Kuala Lumpur. The variables of family-friendly workplaces include work schedule flexibility, health and wellness, compensation, work-life balance and job satisfaction. The result of this study contributes organization in structuring a good policy to retain employees of their company. The result of the hypothesis test show that five factors detailed in this research give significant results to the factors that cause employee retention. The most important factor of family-friendly workplace that cause the retention of employee is job satisfaction. It showed the highest value of 0.387 in the Unstandardized Coefficients (B value) in multiple linear regression. The correlation of work schedule flexibility, health and wellness, compensation and work-life balance had a strong positive relationship while job satisfaction has very strong relationship with the retention of employee which the correlation value is 0.806. The results indicate that most of the respondents are satisfied and loyal toward their current working organization and intend to stay with the current organization within the next year.

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