THE IMPACT OF TALENT ACQUISITION ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: MEDIATING ROLE OF EMPLOYEES’ RESILIENCE

This study investigates the impact of talent management on organizational performance with mediating role of employees’ resilience. The mechanisms on which talent management impacts performance remain underexplored, mainly in context of employees' ability to adapt to challenges (resilience) and broader organizational environment. Using the quantitative research approach, data was collected from teachers in various public sector higher institutions hailing from southern region, KP, Pakistan to assess relationship amid talent management, and employee resilience and how these factors collectively affect performance. Thus, findings confirmed the existence of association, cause-and-effect and mediation relationships that were thus hypothesized from the theoretical framework of study & reaching toward desired conclusions thereby making decisions about the acceptance and rejection of the hypotheses. In this linking, some recommendations have been extracted from the conclusion as study offers valuable insights for human resource professionals and leaders aiming to optimize performance over strategic talent management. This study is expected to contribute the existing knowledge from diverse perspectives that may be generalized to other sectors.