Leaders are in charge of their employees either remain or leave the organization subsequently leadership winds up one of the components impacting employee retention. Human is an essential asset that handles different assets of the organization. Organisations spend and put a considerable measure in their employees concerning enlistment and choice, preparing and improvement, remuneration and different advantages. Consequently, employee turnover from the organization makes a massive misfortune, and each organisation needs to stay away from worker substitution cost. An immense number of studies have been done in employee retention. Studies have been examining employee retention by a partner it with different factors, for example, pay rates, work-life balance, driving pressure, preparing and improvement, condition and administration among others. Studies talking about employee retention with theory base is extraordinarily uncommon and moderate in present writing. This examination inspected the impact of leadership theories on employee retention. The examination endorses a course of action of planning to bosses and overseers on organisation capacities since overseeing and driving go as one. The investigation reminds executives and supervisors to get input from their subordinates on how they see administrative styles used in separate organizations.

Keywords : Leadership, employee retention, Contingency theory, Path-goal theory, trait theory, situational theory.