A further modification, elaboration

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:South African organisations within both the private and public sectors of the economyare investing heavily into their talented employees, in an attempt to derive asustainable competitive advantage. This competitive advantage is threatened whenemployees engage in turnover behaviours. This study is directed at understandingthose factors that contribute to employees' intention to quit following employees'perceptions of training and development initiatives.Empirical support has been found that certain line management talent managementcompetencies would result in the retention of talented employees. This studyinvestigated an existing talent management competency structural model, with aspecific focus on two talent management competencies related to employeedevelopment, namely: Talent Management Mindset and Develops Others.Furthermore, this study investigated the inclusion of additional latent variables(Organisational Trust, Perceived Organisational Support, and Felt Obligation) thatmay potentially explain additional variance in various organisational outcomevariables (i.e. Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment, Normative Commitment, andIntention to Quit). Through understanding how line managers' competence on talentmanagement competencies influence employees' perceptions of organisationaldevelopment initiatives and how these employee perceptions are causally related toIntention to Quit, organisations will be in the prime position to effectively address theissue of employee turnover, through structured talent management retentionprogrammes.The results of the current study showed that the original structural model displayedgood fit. Based on the modification index values calculated for the G and B matrices,a number of modifications were made to the structural model. Following themodifications to the original model, the fit of the model improved, and support wasderived for numerous causal relationships proposed in the model, whist others werenot supported.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University