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Talent Engagement Drivers And Employee Productivity In Technical Vocational Education Training Institutions In Kenya

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Training and human resource development is an important component in any given learning organization.Kenya, as a developing economy has put in place parameters to spearhead its growth namely; Vision 2030 which recognize the critical role of science, technology, innovation and training in moving the country to a middle income status.The productivity of workers in Technical colleges is very critical in ensuring workers and the general performance of Technical Colleges to meet the set objectives that are normally spelled out in their five year strategic plans as well as annual objectives.Extensive literature review shows little has been documented on talent engagement drivers and employee productivity in Technical Vocational Education Training Institutions in Kenya.Therefore, this study sought to investigate influence of talent engagement drivers on employee productivity in Technical Vocational Education Training Institutions in Kenya.A population is a complete set of units to be studied (Kothari, 2004).The study was anchored on resource based view and Human Capital theories.A positivistic philosophy was adopted in order to investigate relationships among the variables.Descriptive and correlation research designs, which led to mixed research design was adopted in this study.The population of the study included all of TVET institutions in Kenya.There is a total 629 TVET institutions (GoK, 2013).Therefore the target population was all the 629 TVET institutions in Kenya.Using Fisher formula, 238 institutions were selected to participate in the study as the sample size.The Research design the study used is the descriptive survey design.Data was analyzed using inferential statistics.This involved the use of correlation and regression modelling .From the results, the correlation between talent engagement drivers and employee productivity was 0.893 at p=0.000.This implied that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between talent engagement drivers and employee productivity.From the results, the F-statistics was recorded as 896.581 at p=0.000, at 95% confidence level, implied the model was fit to explain the relationship between talent engagement and employee productivity.The study therefore rejected the null hypothesis and concluded that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between talent engagement drivers and employee productivity in TVETs in Kenya.

Source: International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications

DOI: 10.29322/ijsrp.11.05.2021.p11347

Authors: Christine Kananu Gitonga, Dr. Robert Egessa

Institution: Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Human Resource and Talent Management

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4241380284