Strategic Talent Management and Organizational Resilience of Construction Firms in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigates the association between strategic talent management and organisational resilience of construction firms in South-South, Nigeria. Talent acquisition and talent development were used as the dimensions of strategic talent management, while organisational resilience (criterion variable) was operationalised using adaptive capacity and operational continuity. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted in this study. The accessible population comprises three hundred and twenty-seven (327) managers and supervisors of eight (8) construction firms in South, South, Nigeria. A sample size of 181 was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan table. A simple random sampling technique was used in this study. The questionnaire was the instrument for the study.Face and content validity were used, and reliability was determined using Cronbach's Alpha. Cronbach's Alpha value of 0.70 or higher was adopted as the benchmark for acceptable reliability.  Spearman’s correlation coefficient was used for the analysis. The findings revealed a positive association between the dimensions of strategic talent management and organisational resilience. The study concludes that strategic talent management correlates with organisational resilience of construction firms in South-South, Nigeria. The study recommends enhancing talent acquisition and development to promote organisational resilience.