Bibliometric Review of Employee Engagement and Employee Retention: Trends, Influential Factors and Future Research Paths

Abstract

Employee engagement and employee retention in the current corporate world seems to be a very important point of discussion for all the stakeholders. As the working conditions and other scenarios are changing by each passing day, these two concepts have caught the attention of scholars and business leaders. The increase in research work related to employee engagement and employee retention has tendered the requirement for a comprehensive study in this subject. To take care of this issue, few scholars have conducted research in this field from various viewpoints. However, a good number of research work has not been conducted related to the concepts of employee engagement and employee retention with the help of bibliometric analysis. In this research work, an endeavor was made to analyze publications related to employee engagement and employee retention with the help of bibliometric analysis and for this the Scopus database was used. Various research works in the form of papers, articles, conferences papers, book, book papers among others were taken from Scopus database from 2006 to August 2024. Six research questions were formulated and the data was then analyzed against it. The results disclosed about the main information about data, annual scientific production, most relevant sources, most relevant authors, most relevant affiliations and corresponding authors countries. All these aspects have discussed in detail in the relevant sections of the research questions. These findings will prove to be source of valuable literature for future research scholars in the times to come in relation to employee engagement and employee retention.