The Role of Talent Management in promoting Proactive Work Behavior
(An Exploratory Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Faculty Members in Some Private Universities and Colleges in the Holy Karbala City)
A Thesis Submitted to
The Council of the Faculty of Administration and Economics / University of Karbala
As Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master Degree in Business Administration
By:
Tabarak Ghaib Nasser Al-Masudi
Supervise
Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Jassem Zaalan
Abstract
The current study aimed at how to employ talent management through proactive work behavior. The study started from a main question, which is (what is the extent of applying talent management and what is its impact on the proactive work behavior of the teaching staff in private universities, the study sample), and in order to achieve this, a variable was measured Talent management in four sub-dimensions (talent attraction, talent development, talent performance management, talent retention) and the proactive work behavior variable was measured in four sub-dimensions (voice behavior, taking responsibility, preventing problems, individual innovation). In order to ensure the representation of the study community Its volume is (410) teachers. The researcher relied on the analytical descriptive approach in collecting, presenting and analyzing the study information, and the questionnaire was used as a main tool in collecting data by surveying the opinions of a number of teaching staff in private universities in the holy city of Karbala, the study sample. (200) electronic questionnaires were distributed and (102) questionnaires subjected to statistical analysis were retrieved. The researcher used a set of statistical methods such as the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and correlation coefficient (Pearson) for the purpose of testing the correlation relationships. For the purpose of testing the influence relationships, the researcher used the (AMOS) program, based on structural equation modeling (Structural Equation Modeling), confirmatory factor analysis, and the use of ( SPSS v.25) to know that the answers to the questionnaire were within the normal distribution. The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is (that in light of the rapid changes and increasing uncertainty in the environment of the Iraqi business sectors in general, and the education sector in particular, there is a growing need to adopt the dimensions of Talent management, which is a safety valve for it towards promoting proactive work behaviors).Some recommendations were presented, the most important of which is (If the private universities in the holy Karbala governorate under study want to enhance the proactive work behavior of their teaching staff, they must adopt the concept of talent management and its dimensions as it represents many positive improvements that change the work environment for the better.
Key terms: talent management, proactive work behavior, teaching staff in private universities and colleges in the holy city of Karbala.
