The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing Employee Retention: Mediating the Influence of Psychological Empowerment
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Hypothesis Formulation
2.1. Talent Management
2.2. Employee Retention
2.3. Psychological Empowerment
2.4. Relationship Between Talent Management and Employee Retention
2.5. Relationship Between Talent Management and Psychological Empowerment
2.6. Relationship Between Psychological Empowerment and Employee Retention
2.7. The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment in the Relationship Between Talent Management and Employee Retention
2.8. Significance of This Study for São Tomé and Príncipe
2.9. Conceptual Model
3. Method
3.1. Research Design
3.2. Sample Size and Procedures
3.3. Measures
3.4. Statistical Tools for Data Analysis
4. Results and Discussion
4.1. Demographic Characteristics
4.2. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
4.3. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)
4.4. Validity and Reliability
4.5. Hypotheses Test
4.6. Mediating Role Hypothesis Test
4.7. Discussion
5. Practical Implications and Recommendations
6. Study Limitation and Future Research
7. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Item | Categories | Frequency | Percentage (%) | Mean | Std. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | 94 | 41.6 | |||
Gender | Female | 132 | 58.4 | 1.58 | 0.494 |
Below 20 years | 2 | 0.9 | |||
Age range | 20–30 years | 46 | 20.4 | ||
31–40 years | 100 | 44.2 | 3.12 | 0.756 | |
Above 40 years | 78 | 34.5 | |||
High school certificate | 8 | 3.5 | |||
Educational level | Diploma | 16 | 7.1 | ||
Degree | 124 | 54.9 | 3.20 | 0.720 | |
Master’s and above | 78 | 34.5 |
Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin | 0.819 | |
---|---|---|
Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity | Approx. Chi-Square | 2257.239 |
Df | 91 | |
Sig. | 0.000 |
Rotated Component Matrix a | |||
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Component | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | |
TM1 | 0.723 | ||
TM2 | 0.738 | ||
TM3 | 0.843 | ||
TM4 | 0.872 | ||
PE1 | 0.848 | ||
PE2 | 0.787 | ||
PE3 | 0.866 | ||
PE4 | 0.810 | ||
PE5 | 0.711 | ||
PE6 | 0.617 | ||
PE7 | 0.558 | ||
ER2 | 0.648 | ||
ER4 | 0.936 | ||
ER11 | 0.931 |
Variables | Mean | Standard Dev. | CA | CR | AVE | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Talent management | 2.874 | 0.872 | 0.858 | 0.813 | 0.634 | 0.796 | ||
2 | Psychological empowerment | 3.700 | 0.721 | 0.887 | 0.898 | 0.563 | 0.411 *** | 0.750 | |
3 | Employee retention | 3.160 | 1.048 | 0.860 | 0.883 | 0.721 | 0.417 *** | 0.370 *** | 0.849 |
Model Coefficients | ||||||
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Model | Unstandardized Coefficients (B) | Std. Error | Standardized Coefficients | t-Value | p-Value | Hypothesis Decision |
H1: TM ---> ER | 0.501 | 0.073 | 0.417 | 6.864 | 0.000 ** | Supported |
H2: TM ---> PE | 0.340 | 0.050 | 0.411 | 6.744 | 0.000 ** | Supported |
H3: PE ---> ER | 0.538 | 0.090 | 0.370 | 5.968 | 0.000 ** | Supported |
Outcome Variable | PE | ER | |||||||||||||
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B | SE | t | p | B | SE | t | p | ||||||||
TM | 0.340 | 0.050 | 6.744 | 0.411 | 0.000 | 0.383 | 0.078 | 4.914 | 0.318 | 0.000 | |||||
PE | - | - | - | - | - | 0.348 | 0.094 | 3.697 | 0.240 | 0.000 | |||||
Direct effect (s) of TM on ER: | |||||||||||||||
Effect | SE | LLCI | ULCI | ||||||||||||
0.383 | 0.078 | 0.229 | 0.536 | ||||||||||||
Indirect effect (s) of TM on ER: | |||||||||||||||
Effect | BootSE | BootLLCI | BootULCI | ||||||||||||
PE | 0.118 | 0.039 | 0.049 | 0.200 | |||||||||||
Completely standardized indirect effect (s) of TM on ER: | |||||||||||||||
Effect | BootSE | BootLLCI | BootULCI | ||||||||||||
PE | 0.098 | 0.033 | 0.040 | 0.167 |
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Menezes DBS, Gumashivili M, Kanokon K. The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing Employee Retention: Mediating the Influence of Psychological Empowerment. Sustainability. 2025; 17(7):3277. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17073277
Chicago/Turabian StyleMenezes, Dalila B. S., Megi Gumashivili, and Kiti Kanokon. 2025. "The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing Employee Retention: Mediating the Influence of Psychological Empowerment" Sustainability 17, no. 7: 3277. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17073277
APA StyleMenezes, D. B. S., Gumashivili, M., & Kanokon, K. (2025). The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing Employee Retention: Mediating the Influence of Psychological Empowerment. Sustainability, 17(7), 3277. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17073277