Title: Talent management and employee competence in Colleges of Education, Ghana: the mediating role of knowledge transfer

Authors: Isaac Tetteh Kwao; Felix Kwame Opoku; Emmanuel Essandoh; Lawrence Yaw Kusi

Addresses: Department of Human Resource Management, School of Business, University of Cape Coast, Ghana ' Department of Human Resource Management, School of Business, University of Cape Coast, Ghana ' Department of Human Resource Management, School of Business, University of Cape Coast, Ghana ' Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, School of Business, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Abstract: The study empirically examined the influence of talent management on employees' competence and controlled for the intervening effect of knowledge transfer in colleges of education in Ghana. Given the reliance on explanatory research design, the study utilised structured questionnaire for gathering the primary data quantitatively from 209 randomly selected participants. A second-order model was configured in SMART PLS for testing of the directional hypotheses formulated. The study found that talent management is a weak significant positive predictor of both team competence and change competence. However, talent management significantly predicts a moderate positive variance in self-competence. Also, knowledge transfer mediates the predictive relationship between talent management and three dimensions of employee competence. The study concluded that colleges of education should rely on talent management programmes for managing their talents with strong integration of institutional systems and structures for knowledge transfer, so as to build the competence of their workforce.

Keywords: talent management; TM; knowledge transfer; KT; competence; Colleges of Education; Ghana.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWI.2022.127655

International Journal of Work Innovation, 2022 Vol.3 No.3, pp.250 - 268

Received: 30 May 2022
Accepted: 18 Jul 2022
Published online: 13 Dec 2022 *

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