Jurnal Employer Branding Impact Employer Retention
Jurnal Employer Branding Impact Employer Retention
Jurnal Employer Branding Impact Employer Retention
ABSTARCT
In this time, Talented and faithful Employees is a basic resource of World-wide associations.
To pull in and retain the correct ability is vivacious assignment for every single association.
Prior, Organizations were just advancing themselves before clients however with the
expanding war of skill; companies have begun picking up notoriety according to
representatives and potential candidates as Great Employer to work with. The study has been
attempted to comprehend the effect of hierarchical practices to appeal and hold on Employer
Branding.424 members (424 representatives of Pharmaceutical Industry) have been taken as
test of the examination. The information is gathered with the assistance of structured survey
and is analysed utilizing Smart PLS(Partial Least Square).
INTRODUCTION
Inadequacy of all around qualified and competent agents in current circumstance makes the
need to attract and hold the helpful specialists as the most smoking Human Resource issue for
all the affiliations. Over the time allotment, the affiliation has started giving highlight on its
HR for better execution. Precisely how to gain customers, you need to make constructive
character in the minds of customer, the capacity pool is also extended by planting helpful
character of the affiliations. All associations have drawn some character on the demeanour of
the impressive number of accomplices. In this genuine presence where the organisations are
being judged and surveyed on various regions nearby how and what things and organizations
affiliations are offering, HR masters' huge task is to grandstand the organisation's image as
"an alluring business" in the minds of all collaborators and delegate all around organized
Employer Branding
The topic Employer Branding was invented by Ambler in 1996 in the context of Application
of techniques of brand management in UK organisations. According to Ambler,An attractive
employer branding means the process of providing psychological, economic and financial
benefits to the current working employees to connect potential applicants to the employer
(Ambler, 1996). Employer Branding is where ways of thinking of advertising, explicit the
"study of marketing", is applied to HR activities for present and potential representatives.
Employer Branding idea is applied to make better work involvement in a supposition that
when employees experience with the organisation, it upgrades the estimation of the business
and impact potential representatives to connect with. Employer Branding helps the
connotation in expanding information sharing among workers and furthermore helps in
expanding competitive advantage of the association.
Meaning
Sullivan explained Employer Brand as, “a targeted strategy to manage mindfulness and
perceptions of employees, potential applicants and other related stakeholders of a particular
organization” (Sullivan, 2004).
To elaborate the concept, Miles (Miles, 2004)has defined employer brand as “"the procedure
by which employees masquerade the ideal brand picture and are inspired to extend the picture
to clients and other authoritative constituent".
The elements while picking the associations to connect with differs as socioeconomics of the
potential enlisted people changes. Inclination of significant components contrast as the ages
changes. Like, Millennial want to work in groups however, the individuals brought into the
world after WW2 have supported the request. (Gilbert, September,2011)Age X favors pay
and work life balance. Where, Baby boomers lean toward sufficiency and security (Employer
Branding, 2013)). The other demographical factor that changes the impression of workers
while choosing the business is sexual orientation. Male and female anticipate that various
develops should be in their positive managers' practices. The examination on Employees
desires from manager (on 100 chosen organizations in Sri Lanka) discovered that female
respondents all things considered stressed over versatile working methods, an extraordinary
work-life balance, settlement of the work space and an awesome working environment while
picking the relationship to work with. Where Men look for association for organisation with
stable assets, future possibilities, extraordinary organization, overall expert victories,
Training and developmental undertakings and nature of the things/organizations affiliation
offer.
(Neeti Leekha Chhabra, 2014)clarifies the fundamental factor is the hierarchical Culture,
Brand name pay despite everything hold the most elevated positions with regards to engaging
quality elements.
(Tarek A. Al Badawy, 2015)Authors have focused more on EB and it's impact (Motivation
and Retention). Results demonstrated that there is a feeble inconsequential, yet, a positive
connection between Employer Branding and goal to remain in the association, which was
negating of the prior investigations. Results indicated a moderate positive connection
between Employer Branding and inspiration to associate with company is factually
remarkably vast.
IDENTIFICATION OF GAPS
The review of the literature has revealed that study on impact of Employer Branding on
Current working employees has not been focused much in research so far. To fill this gap,
this research will mainly focus on impact of Employer Branding practices on employees’
perception towards Employee Retention in Pharmaceutical industry in Gujarat.
OBJECTIVES
The research design is descriptive and causal research design in nature. The primary data is
collected with the help of structured questionnaire from the employees working in
Pharmaceutical Industry in Gujarat. The sample units in total 424 responses are collected. For
data collection, non-probability convenience sampling method is used. The secondary data is
collected from journals, research articles, industry publications, etc. For analysing the
collected sample, Regression model through PLS is used to analyse the purposes of the
sresearch. The test is performed in Smart PLS 3.0 software.
Descriptive Analysis
The descriptive analysis is performed on 424 responses collected. The results are presented in
the Table no.1.
Table no. 1: Profile of Employees
Gender Frequency Percent
Male 382 91.1
Female 42 9.9
Total 424 100.0
Educational Qualification Frequency Percent
Doctorate 52 12.3
Post Graduate 252 59.4
Professional 72 17.0
Graduate 48 11.3
Under Graduate 52 12.3
Total 424 100.0
The results presented in table no. 1 shows that demographic nature of the respondents. Out of
the 424 respondents, 382 are male and 42 are female. 52 out of the 426 respondents are
having the qualification of Doctorate.
Hypothesis:
H01: Perception of Employees towards Compensation & Benefits does not not impact
Employer Branding.
H01.2: Perception of employees towards organisation providing good health benefits does not
impact Compensation & Benefits.
H02: Perception of Employees towards Ethics & CSR does not impact Employer
Branding.
H02.1: Perception of employees towards organisation has fair attitude towards employees
does not impact Ethics & CSR.
H02.2: Perception of employees towards organisation has rules and regulations which
employees are expected to follow does not impact Ethics & CSR.
H03.3: Perception of employees towards organisation recognises when the employees do good
work does not impact Healthy Work Atmosphere.
H04: Perception of employees towards Training & Development does not impact
Employer Branding.
H05: Perception of employees towards Work Life Balance does not impact Employer
Branding.
H05.1: Perception of employees towards organisation providing flexible working hours does
not impact Work Life Balance.
H05.3: Perception of employees towards organisation providing on-site sports facilities does
not impact Work Life Balance
All the mediating constructs like Healthy work atmosphere, Training and Development,
Work Life Balance, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility and Compensation &
Benefits have collective outcome on Employee Retention with R2 values of 0.357. This
divulges the fact the structural model for Employee Retention has analytical relevance.
Further, the examination of the adjusted R Square value of Employer Branding is 0.350,
which showcases the analytical relevance of the variables with Employee Retention.
Outer Loading
2.1 ECSR1 does impact ECSR1 <- Ethics 0.659 6.545 Supported
on ECSR & CSR
2.2 ECSR2 does impact ECSR2 <- Ethics 0.712 4.898 Supported
on ECSR & CSR
2.3 ECSR3 does impact ECSR3 <- Ethics 0.626 8.728 Supported
on ECSR & CSR
2.4 ECSR4 does impact ECSR4 <- Ethics 0.537 11.683 Supported
on ECSR & CSR
3.3 HWA3 does impact HWA3 <- 0.177 1.288 Not Supported
on HWA Healthy Work
Environment
4.1 T&D1 does impact TD1 <- Training -0.016 0.069 Not Supported
on T&D & Development
4.2 T&D2 does impact TD2 <- Training 0.191 0.905 Not Supported
on T&D & Development
4.3 T&D3 does impact TD3 <- Training 0.491 2.463 Supported
on T&D & Development
4.4 T&D4 does impact TD4 <- Training 0.535 2.873 Supported
on T&D & Development
4.5 T&D5 does impact TD5 <- Training 0.677 4.120 Supported
on T&D & Development
4.6 T&D6 does impact TD6 <- Training 0.460 2.436 Supported
on T&D & Development
5.1 WLB1 does impact WLB1 <- Work 0.967 26.070 Supported
on WLB Life Balance
5.2 WLB2 does impact WLB2 <- Work -0.131 0.856 Not Supported
on WLB Life Balance
5.3 WLB3 does impact WLB3 <- Work -0.268 1.773 Not Supported
on WLB Life Balance
To discuss about the constructs of Employer Branding, all endogenous variables have been
selected from the scale of Berthon et.al (2005). Berthon has industrialized a scale which was
approved by the expert before starting the data collection. After analysing the reliability of
the data Smart PLS has been used on the records to create a theoretical framework of Impact
In an organisation, to attract and retain the human resource the most used method is to
provide better package of compensation & Benefits. Compensation includes the pay delivered
by an employer to an employee for concentrated services in the organisation: it includes time,
skills, and efforts. Berthon has verified that Compensation & Benefits provided by the
organisation are the construct of Employer Branding.
For the data of 424 employees, all the statements have impact on Compensation & Benefit as
a construct as all the T-statistics value is more than 1.96, so we reject the null hypothesis that
H01.1-H01.3 does impact Compensation & Benefits.
To further elaborate, Compensation & Benefit has path co-efficient more than 0.1(0.163) and
T-Statistics more than 1.96 (3.804). So we can prove that compensation & Benefits has
impact on Employee Retention
For the data of 424 employees,all the statements have impact on Ethics and CSR as a
construct as all the T-statistics value is more than 1.96, so we reject the null hypothesis that
H02.1-H2.4 does impact Ethics & CSR.
To further elaborate, Ethics & CSR has path co-efficient more than 0.1(0.130) and T-
Statistics more than 1.96 (3.008). So we can prove that Ethics & CSR has impact on
Employee Retention.
For the data of 424 employees, all the statements have impact on Healthy Work Environment
as a construct as all the T-statistics value is more than 1.96, i.e. 11.020, 2.691, 4.445, 2.855
except Perception of employees towards organisation recognises when the employees do
To further elaborate, Healthy Work Environment has path co-efficient more than
0.1(0.247)and T-Statistics more than 1.96 (6.301). So we can prove that Healthy Work
Environment has positive impact on Employee Retention.
Growth prospects is generally every employee wants in his professional career. For the data
of 424 employees, all the statements have impact on Training & Development as a construct
as all the T-statistics value is more than 1.96,except Perception of employees towards
organisation providing online courses to employees & Perception of employees towards
organisation organising various conference, workshops and training programme on regular
basis , so we reject the null hypothesis that H04.3,H4.4, H4.5 does impact Training &
Development and H04.1 ,H04.2. Perception of employees towards organisation providing online
courses to employees does not impact Training and Development & Perception of employees
towards organisation organising various conference, workshops and training programme on
regular basis does not impact Training and Development.
To further elaborate, Training & Development has path co-efficient less than 0.1(-0.036) and
T-Statistics less than 1.96 (0.851). So we can prove that Training & Development has not
significant impact on Employee Retention.
For the data of 424 employees, all the statements have impact on Work Life Balance as a
construct as the T-statistics value is more than 1.96, except Perception of employees towards
organisation providing opportunities to work from home does not impact Work Life Balance.
& Perception of employees towards organisation providing on-site sports facilities does not
impact Work Life Balance.
So, we reject the null hypothesis that H 05.1 does impact Work Life Balance and , H05.2, H05.3
Perception of employees towards organisation providing on-site sports facilities does not
To further elaborate, Healthy Work Environment has path co-efficient less than -0.1(-0.382)
and T-Statistics more than 1.96 (9.198). So we can prove that Work Life Balance has
negative impact on Employee Retention.
CONCLUSION
From the study it can be concluded that the impact of Healthy Work Environment, Ethics &
CSR and Compensation & Benefit have more on the positive impact on Employee Retention.
While Work Life Balance has negative impact on Employee Retention On the basis of the
test results, it can be concluded that most of the employees’ perception towards retention
practices leads to constructive impact on Employee Retention in pharmaceutical industry
except Training & Development. The perception of employees towards the amenities done by
these companies is on appropriate satisfaction level.
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