Employee Retention is a process in which employees are encouraged to remain within an organization for the maximum period or until the completion of a project. Successful organizations not only need to hire the right people but to retain them people for the job. Failure to retain employees results in the loss of knowledge, experience, customer relations and technical skills which are transfer to another organization. The objective of this study is to identify major factors that affect employee retention in Uttarakhand Transport Corporation Dehradun’s. The objectives of this presents study were to identify the major factors influencing employee retention in the transport, to develop a framework based on a Causal Model and recommend possible solutions that could lead to improvements in employee retention. The study is based the quantitative and qualitative methods. The computed sample from the population was 171 but only 144 respondents successfully participated in the study. Quantitative data was analysed b y using the statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Content analysis was also affected to analyze data from the interviews with the key respondents.

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Keywords: Employee Retention, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Workplace Structures.