Abstract:
Based on the outcome of the pilot survey, researcher identified the Electricity Distribution company
was suffering low Employee Retention since 2018 of the non-Executive level at the company. This issue is highly
effect for the organization’s productivity. And, this has caused the time wastage for the company. And high cost
of production is increased. General objective of this study is to survey the factors affecting Employee Retention
to Electricity Distribution industry in Sri Lanka. Employee Retention was the Dependent Variable of this study.
And there are four variables. Compensation, Communication, Working Environment and Work Life Balance are
the independent variables. And four Hypothesis were developed to test this research. The mixed methodology
was using in this study. A stratified sampling method was used and 103 of Nonexecutive level employees of
Electricity Company was selected as a sample size. Pre-structured questionnaire was used to collect the primary
data and through the research documents, company annual report and company web site secondary data were
gathered. The outcome of the research is statistically proved that there is positive relationship between Employee
Retention and other variables. But most impacted variable is Communication. Consider about this issue researcher
highly recommend implement a better communication system.
