ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING IN LINKING TALENT MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE

Abstract

This study aimed to examine organizational learning role in bridging the talent management and sustainable performance in particular context. The organizations in contemporary technologically advanced and competitive business landscape that demand the sustainable and effective talent with continuous learning to stay in business and achieve organizational success. The main purpose of study is to explore direct effect of talent management upon the sustainable performance and to investigate the mediation of the organizational learning. A quantitative approach was used and data was gathered from telecommunication industry, Pakistan using the structured questionnaires. The statistical procedures were used to explore suggested relationships between research variables. The results indicate that talent management has positive impact on sustainable performance as employers that successfully develop employees and manage their talent with career development & retention plans experience better productivity, innovation as well as organizational growth. The findings show that there is significant partial mediational effect in study. The implications of findings are valuable with respect to managers in designing sustainable human resource and organizational learning strategies in the telecommunication industry in the context of Pakistan.