Talent Management Practices and Performance of Lecturers among Federal Universities in South East, Nigeria

The study evaluated the talent management practices and performance of lecturers among Federal
Universities in South East, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to: examine the relationship between
talent acquisition and retention on the quality of research work among lecturers of the federal
universities in South, East Nigeria; evaluate the relationship between salary and quality assurance
among lecturers of the federal universities in south East, Nigeria and ascertain the extent of the
relationship between succession planning and growth among lecturers of the federal universities in
South East, Nigeria between 2008 – 2019. The study used the survey approach. The primary sources
were personal interview and the administration of questionnaire. A population of 4525 staff was
used. The population of the study was drawn from the groups under study using a stratified sampling
method. The adequate sample size of 354, using Freund and William's statistic formula was obtained.
321 staff returned the questionnaire and accurately filled. That gave 91 percent response rate. It
gave a reliability co-efficient of 0.75which was also good. Data was presented and analyzed by mean
score (3.0 and above a greed while below 3.0 disagreed) and standard deviation using Sprint Likert
Scale. The hypotheses were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient (r) statistic tool. The
findings indicated that there was positive significance relationship between talent acquisition and
retention on the quality of research work among federal universities in South East, Nigeria as reported
in the probability value of r (95, n = 321) =.444, p > 0.05; there was positive significant relationship
between salary and quality assurance among lecturers of the federal universities in South East,
Nigeria as reported in the probability value of r (95, n = 321) =.706, p > 0.05 and there was positive
significant relationship between strategic staff planning and growth among lecturers of the federal
universities in South East, Nigeria as reported in the probability value of r (95, n = 321) =.685, p > 0.05.
The study concluded that talent acquisition, staff development and succession planning had a positive
significant relationship with the retention, quality assurance and growth among the lecturers of
federal universities in South East, Nigeria. The study recommended among others that Management
of the universities should introduce policies that would strengthen the process of enticing, attracting,
selecting, fetching, engaging and developing staff with the accurate talent as this would enhance
staff flexibility and alertness on the job.