1. ASSESSING HYBRID WORKPLACE FACTORS AND EMPLOYEE RETENTION RELATIONSHIPS: EVIDENCE FROM IT COMPANIES
Authors: CH. RADHIKA1 and Dr. KALPANA KONERU2
Abstract
The research tries to understand the influence of hybrid workplace environments in the employee retention of IT leading firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, TCS and Capgemini. It investigates factors like supervisor support, organizational support, rewards, training, and job aids as a potential contributor towards high employee commitment levels and their retention in the current firm. The survey collected employee information from 1,851 responses to an employee engagement questionnaire, which employed five-point Likert scale responses. It was then confirmed through CFA and SEM for testing and verification of the results. The test showed that the hybrid workplace factors are significantly associated with employee commitment and retention; training, supervisor support, and organizational support were the significant contributor with a positive influence. The findings can be used by the firms to design hybrid systems inclusive of high engagement and low turnover rates.
Keywords: IT Firms, SEM, CFA, Employee Commitment, and Retention, Hybrid Workplace.
2. DECONSTRUCTING NATIONAL MEMORY: POSTCOLONIAL HYBRIDITY, PARTITION TRAUMA, AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION IN SHASHI THAROOR’S THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL
Authors: Dr. DIKSHA SHARMA
Abstract
The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor’s first fictional endeavour deserves to be termed as an ‘eminently readable’ classic, powerfully and wisely narrating a human history with extraordinary profundities. Imbibing an opulence of Tharoor’s innovations and ingenuity, the novel is a fascinating blend of the ancient and recent pasts of the Indian sub-continent; a powerful and a vivid exemplification of its political exigencies during British imperialism in the country; its ruthless amputation just before its liberation – the partition; followed by an elucidation of the circumstances encumbering its polity after the end of the colonial era. In other words thoroughly enmeshed by the diversity and the plurality evidenced in India’s rich cultural heritage, (Khilnani 153) her history and her people Tharoor endeavours to portray the sub – continent’s gradual evolution from the last few decades of its post – colonial predicament in this novel.
Keywords: Partition, Mahabharat, Postcolonial, Hybridity, Divide et Empera.