• Mamta Sharma
• Dr. Hemant Verma

Retaining employees in an organization is become vital issue now a days. In today’s competitive era an organization emphasizes on employee retention rather than new hiring. Employee turnover has significant effect on business plans which leads decrease productivity. In another words employee turnover gives loss to organization in separation cost and replacement cost. The focus of this study is find out impact of motivation on the retention of employees. The area of study is Rajasthan State and the sample size is 100 faculty members of higher education. The Primary Data has been collected through questionnaire (using five likerd scale) and interview and the Secondary Data has been collected with the help of journals, magazines, books, and internet. The random sampling method was used in this study. There are many human resources practices and policies to keep retain employees in an organization. This study results that there is a positive relationship between motivation and Employee Retention. The study shows that work environment were rated as most important motivational factors in higher education sector, Followed by trust, transparency, teamwork, autonomy, participation, creativity, values and openness.

employee retention, motivation, compensation and wages, interpersonal relationship, participation.

"Motivation and Employee Retention: A study on Higher Education Sector", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.456-463, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811668.pdf

"Motivation and Employee Retention: A study on Higher Education Sector", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp456-463, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811668.pdf