Authors : Zheng WeiBo, Sharan Kaur and Jiang Xia
Abstract: As the carrier of intellectual capital, the talents of the organization become more significant than ever. The overall objective of this study is to explore an integrative multi-route model between the talents Key Degree Scale (KDS) and withdraw tendency and will discuss the relationship with the influence of job coupling based on theory of social capital. This study mainly focus on the fitness of the proposed model, mediator variables influences of job coupling to withdraw tendency and the interaction of adjustment of moderators with the samples from three Business Schools of China. Path analysis is used to evaluate direct and indirect associations among observed variables referenced the LISREL software programs. OSL hierarchical regressive analysis in SPSS is employed for the complicated relationship of multi-collinearity among the observed variables because of the higher inter-correlation among the observed variables. Analyzed results showed that the effective retaining is a perplexing mediating mechanism not only from on job influences but also from the community factors. The relationship between talents KDS and withdraw tendency is a multi-route system with duality (retention and turnover) and many incentive sectors in which the mediator position of job coupling is extremely prominent. The relatively high homogeneity of MBA samples with more similar features of occupation and population, although from different industries and representative location, thus the application range of the analysis result should be treated carefully to expand into other special industry. The novelty comes from the three issues as follows, firstly, it is a new viewpoint of the social capital to evaluate the problem of talent turnover/retention and proposed and evaluated an integrative turnover/retention model; the second value is the typical sample design of MBA candidates for talent retention in cross-industries and thirdly, this study is a significant application for LISREL in the area of human capital management of social science.
Zheng WeiBo, Sharan Kaur and Jiang Xia, 2010. Talent Retention, Empirical Study of Multi-Routes Model, Perspective of Social Capital Theory. International Business Management, 4: 151-161.