Retaining MBAs, from employees' point of view

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

The purpose of this study is to discuss retention strategies used by Human Resource Management to retain knowledge workers, particularly MBAs. This Work Project is a qualitative analysis taking into consideration MBAs point of view through semi-structured interviews. This document takes their opinions in order to discuss the possible gaps between the current HRM strategies used and the ones considered as effective by MBAs. The interviews were conducted with a sample of 24 participants all of them with a MBA Degree which gave to the analysis heterogeneity because of their different backgrounds. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed. A master table with the results was then elaborated. Concerning the findings, some of them confirmed the literature review. But new results arose from the interviews, which may be interesting for future research.