Expectations, if met in right way can lead to satisfaction at work. If not met, can lead to dissatisfaction as well as higher employee turnover, high satisfaction level is what an employer wants. The paper includes a research on freshly graduate management students of Surat city. There search was conducted to identify expectations of these students from their employer. The study was conducted on 125 freshly graduate management students. The research instrument that consists of 16 statements was designed on the bases of literature review. Data analysis was done in SPSS software and factor analysis was conducted. The result shows that the expectation of these students can be bifurcated in three major heads namely, “Career Development,” “Work-life Balance,” and “Job content.” By using various measures of career development initiatives and work life balance the organizations can win their young employees.

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Keywords: Work Related Expectations, Employee Retention Strategy, Work-life Balance.

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