As we transit through the first quarter of a century of the democratic experiment called the New South Africa, there is no better time than now to call for the rise of what W.E.B. du Bois called the Talented Tenth. ...

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2024-Mar-05 09:16:13

Employees who have developed their skills give an organisation a competitive edge, and in the public sector where this study was conducted, they render an excellent customer service. Prior to this study, frameworks were not integrated. Some frameworks were generic and were developed by academics and training experts. They comprised internal elements (i.e. business, human resource development strategies, performance management, training policy and rewards), but did not integrate with external ...

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2024-Mar-05 09:05:13

Employees who have developed their skills give an organisation a competitive edge, and in the public sector where this study was conducted, they render an excellent customer service. Prior to this study, frameworks were not integrated. Some frameworks were generic and were developed by academics and training experts. They comprised internal elements (i.e. business, human resource development strategies, performance management, training policy and rewards), but did not integrate with external ...

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2024-Mar-05 09:05:03

Without a highly motivated and engaged workforce, an organisation will not realise its goals as staff mobility will be high. Public institutions are finding it difficult to retain their highly competent employees as these are moving to private institutions. The increased turnover rate at most government institutions has led to a great decrease in the number of competent staff, thus a short-age in vital areas, to the extent that some departments are losing their feasibility. The study explores ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:53:53

Organisations constantly seek the most talented candidates for placement and task execution. However, with the labour market being highly competitive, it is difficult to capture the right personnel for the specific job. The talent management review process within a department has to be a recurrent practice to ensure its effective application. Many organisations are struggling to thrive despite talent management policies and practices. Therefore, organisational leaders must evaluate these poli ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:50:35

There is a body of findings in the South African context that suggests that root causes of poor service delivery in the public service are related to poor talent management. Despite this body of work, it is unclear whether good talent management strategies can influence employee agentic behaviours such as job crafting that are critical for good public service delivery. The aim of this study was to examine whether the perception of talent management can influence job crafting behaviours of pub ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:46:38

Talent management is a continuous strategy employed by institutions to attract and retain high quality employees, develop their skills, and work on continuously motivating them to improve their performance. The focus is on creating motivated human resources to enable an institution to meet its long-term goals. Staff retention is influenced by, amongst other things, the human resource planning, recruitment and selections, optimal human resource utilisation, human resource developmen ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:38:58

Talent management is a continuous strategy employed by institutions to attract and retain high quality employees, develop their skills, and work on continuously motivating them to improve their performance. The focus is on creating motivated human resources to enable an institution to meet its long-term goals. Staff retention is influenced by, amongst other things, the human resource planning, recruitment and selections, optimal human resource utilisation, human resource development, compensa ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:33:39

The purpose of the study was to evaluate and analyse the effects of the compensation structure on employees' commitment at the university in KwaZulu-Natal, a comprehensive tertiary institution. For this purpose, the researcher considered the views of authors who recently attempted to unravel the factors that could lead to job satisfaction and whether compensation was one of them. The study used a quantitative research approach and adopted self-administered questionnaires to collect data f ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:28:24

The challenge to attract and retain academic staff at higher education institutions is a global one. Various national and institutional initiatives are underway to ensure that adequate levels of experienced academic staff are retained and at the same time new academic staff are recruited, appointed and nurtured. In South Africa this challenge is compounded by unique contextual factors emanating from the legacy of apartheid, poor management and leadership, and a shortage of talented black acad ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:19:36

The notion of talent management has become popular in the Nigerian public sector in its aspiration to realise its development agenda. In view of the socio-economic challenges facing this public sector in its attempt to improve its efficiency, there is a general recognition that there is a need to attract, develop and retain human resource professionals, especially in the knowledge economy and knowledge society. Investing in talent management initiatives as a process remains critical for publi ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:12:20

The production of quality goods and services depends on the skills and expertise of employees of that organisation. Employees are the backbone of any organisation. They are an asset and need to be valued especially if the organisation intends to survive and have a competitive edge. To acquire and retain skilled human resources is not easy and needs concerted effort on the part of all human resource stakeholders in organisations. Organisations need to make themselves attractive to prospective ...

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2024-Mar-05 08:06:37

The changing milieu in which the South African public service exists and delivers, and competition in the labour market, make talent management an essential element for any organisational strategy. The research method adopted in the research that preceded this article is document analysis. Secondary data from existing literature is used to provide a literary basis for four essential public service documents to be analysed. These documents are the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, ...

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2024-Mar-05 07:53:56

Globally, talent retention is a challenge, and this phenomenon of talent retention has global and local implications for human resource management. More specifically, the issues of talent management and talent retention are complex in former colonial countries. The structural adjustments programmes and liberal competitive markets have led to higher informalisation. The colonial governance had also been forced to compromise with local governance and decision making. Additionally, this compromi ...

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2024-Mar-05 07:47:13

Talent management plays an important role in an organisation's commitment to recruit, manage, develop and retain talented employees. It deals with all the work processes and systems that pertain to retaining and developing the needed superior workforce. This article assesses the readiness of senior management for the implementation of talent management within municipalities. South Africa is challenged by a distorted supply and demand of skills. The key to talent management lies in improvi ...

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2024-Mar-05 07:37:46

This article focuses on talent management within the context of the South African public sector. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between leadership and group identity and the intention to attend work. Talent management is important in the attraction, identification, development, and retainment of employees within the workplace. An important aspect to all this concerns perceptions around achieving work outcomes such as intentions to attend work. This includes not onl ...

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2024-Mar-05 07:27:42

Through the adoption of the National Development Plan (NDP), South Africa has set itself the target of realising the dream of a better South Africa by 2030. The realisation of the 2030 vision relies heavily on the extent to which recruitment, appointments, promotions and retention are based on talent and experience backed by appropriate educational qualifications. In its executive summary, the National Development Plan states that "therefore, in 2030, we experience daily how: we particip ...

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2024-Mar-05 07:20:48