Impact Of Succession Planning On Employee Retention: Mediating Role Of Career Development

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of career development between succession planning and employee retention in private universities of Sindh, Pakistan. Primary data collected through questionnaire research instrument which is adopted from the pervious studies. In order to test the proposed hypothesis, the gathered data is analysed with help of statistical tests including confirmatory factor analysis and CB-SEM in AMOS version 25. Findings, of the research study confirmed the full mediation effect of career development between succession planning and employee retention in private universities of Sindh, Pakistan. Due to higher number of private universities in Sindh, Pakistan, there is a high level of competition in order to maintain the retention of the well-trained faculty members. This research would help the top management of private universities for the retention of the faculty through designing the strategies with help of these identified variables in the current research study.