Work Engagement and Organizational Performance as Perceived by Nursing Managers: The Mediating Role of Talent Management

Background: Engaged to work and actively performed nursing staff, directing the organizational performance to the highest levels. Talent management is a fundamental mechanism that contributes positively to job satisfaction, innovative work behavior, work engagement, career orientation, and the retention of nurses at all levels in their health care organizations. Developing and improving talent management increases nursing work engagement, which increases the performance of healthcare organizations. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of talent management as a mediating factor on work engagement and organizational performance as perceived by nursing managers. Design: A Correlational research design was used to conduct this study. Sampling: A convenient samples of (137) all available nursing managers working at Main Assiut University Hospital and willing to participate in the study. Tools: Three scales were used, employee engagement, organizational performance, and talent management. Results: It was revealed that about two-thirds of the studied nursing managers had moderate levels of talent management and organizational performance, while less than half had moderate levels. Conclusion: There is a highly statistically significant correlation between work engagement, organizational performance, talent management, and its dimensions. Talent management plays a partial mediator between work engagement& organizational performance. Recommendation: Health care organizations should improve nursing managers’ talent management levels, which will directly help in their work engagement, as organizational performance will improve through stating strategies and policies that include the necessary vision for talent acquisition and identification, providing effective professional competence development, and performing formal and informal appraisals.