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Abstract
Purpose-The rationale of the study was to explore the effect of perceived high performance work practices (HPWPs) on employee engagement on selected IT Firms in India. To find the various HPWPs factors like selective recruitment, training and development, empowerment and performance based pay leads to employee engagement.
Design/methodology- A self-administered questionnaire based on review of literature was developed using standard measures and distributed to employees working in IT firms at Bangalore, having employee strength of above thousand employees in an unit. The questionnaire was distributed to 150 employees who were selected based on purposive sampling technique, finally 110(77.3%) usable response was used for further analysis. The hypothesized relationships were used using SPSS 20 through regression analysis.
Findings- The study showed that high performance work practices like selective recruitment, training and development, empowerment had significant impact on employee engagement in IT sector employees, whereas performance based pay did not show significant impact.
Research limitations – The study had certain limitation like some of the employees were reluctant to fill the survey and number of survey questions were confined to limited number due to company polices. However, the researcher’s assume that the result of the study will add value to the selected IT firms to formulate policies for employees