The Effect of Talent Management Strategy on Organizational Commitment with the Mediating Role of Work Engagement
Subject Areas : New theories and models of human resource training and developmentmohaddeseh babajani baboli 1 , mahbube alijanpour 2
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Keywords: talent managementorganizational commitmentwork engagementMazandaran University,
Abstract :
Universities and higher education institutions play a key role in advancing a society’s goals as they intend to educate and train skilled and expert forces. These organizations require committed and competent staff in order to accomplish their great mission. For this purpose, talent management strategy is considered one of the strategies which helps any organization increase work engagement and organizational commitment amongst the staff. The present research aimed at examining the effect of talent management strategy on organizational commitment with the mediating role of work engagement amongst the staff in Mazandaran University. The statistical population comprised all staff with high school diploma or higher degrees (n= 540) working in Mazandaran University out of whom 225 participants were randomly selected as the research sample size using Cochran’s formula. This is an applied research in terms of its aim and a descriptive survey with regard to methods used for data collection. The tools for data collection included three questionnaires: Swim’s Talent Management Strategy Questionnaire (2009), Allen & Meyer’s Organizational Commitment Scale (1990), and Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli et al. (2003). Structural equation modeling technique and partial least squares regression were applied to analyze the data. The results indicated a good fit of conceptual model presented in which work engagement played a mediating role in the effect of talent management strategy on organizational commitment amongst the staff. Moreover, the results from hypotheses testing showed the positive effect of talent management strategy on organizational commitment and work engagement as well as positive effect of work engagement on organizational commitment amongst the staff.