Employees’ Turnover, Knowledge Management and Human Recourse Management: A Case of Nitaqat Program

Abstract

Employee turnover as a term and its sources have been introduced and conducted in several studies in the past few decades. The lost knowledge as a result of this turnover on a large scale as a" country scale" is the topic that will be discussed and presented in this paper. Nitaqat as a localization program that have been forced by the Saudi ministry of Labour has caused a huge cases of employees turnover. Due that turnover, the knowledge retention has been affected. This paper examines the employee turnover sources, its effects and forwards a suggested strategy that linked to HRM on how to minimize the lost knowledge that caused by the localization program Nitaqat.