THE IMPACT OF TALENT ACQUISITION ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF EXECUTIVE-LEVEL EMPLOYEES IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Abstract

The study empirically investigates the impact of Talent Acquisition on Employee performance of selected five-star city hotels located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The study's specific objectives are to identify the impact of talent acquisition on employee performance, to analyze the relationship between talent acquisition and employee performance, to analyze the relationship between dimensional perspectives of talent acquisition and to recommend suggestions to enhance talent acquisition practices and employee performance.

The data was collected using a simple random sampling method, and the sample size was 150 executive-level employees in five-star city hotels. Out of 190 employees, 150 respondents were selected to analyze the data. A structured questionnaire was administered to collect the data and analyzed using SPSS version 25.0. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Talent Acquisition practices were evaluated using the three dimensions recruitment, selection and hiring, onboarding and integration.

The study's findings revealed that talent acquisition has a positive, strong, significant relationship with employee performance. Moreover, the findings indicated that recruitment strategies, selection and hiring process, onboarding and integration have a positive significant relationship with talent acquisition and employee performance. Therefore, the study concluded that talent acquisition positively impacts employee performance. According to the findings, city hotels should implement strategic human resource practices to enhance the level of talent acquisition practices of the companies to motivate employees and attract and retain top talents to achieve higher performance levels.