Exploring the Relationship between HR Practices and Job Satisfaction Across Selected IT Companies

The dynamic market scenario reviving from the recent recession has seen a lot of changes in the employee perspectives and behavior. With new avenues opening up for employees enhancing attrition, each organization needs to map the satisfaction of its employees with the Human Resource (HR) practices it follows to ensure that the talent pool is retained. The current study is an attempt to determine the relationship between HR practices and job satisfaction in selected IT companies in India. Three IT companies in Northern India were covered as part of this study. The data was collected by using a questionnaire based on a job satisfaction scale developed by Wood et al. (1986) and HR practices through e-mail to 200 employees across these companies. 124 responses received were coded and the data was analyzed using t-test and correlation. The results indicate that male and female employees in the organizations under study have different perceptions of HR practices and job satisfaction. The results also show that in the IT industry, 82% of the HR practices are driven by three dimensions of job satisfaction, namely, information, variety, closure and pay