Abstract:
This study aims to investigate the impact of Talent Engagement on Employee performance with the mediating role of Job Satisfaction in Higher Education Sector of Pakistan. The model of this research study indicates that talent engagement (Job engagement, Organizational engagement) have an impact on employee performance. Other purpose of the study is to find out the relationship among talent engagement, employee performance and job satisfaction as a mediator in the higher education sector organizations, and identified that there is association among these variables, whereas job satisfaction has significant mediation effect between talent engagement & employee performance. For this research study, convenience sampling technique is used for data collection and data was calculated from top four universities of Islamabad. PLS-SEM (Partial Least Square- Structural Equation Modeling) tool is used for hypothesis testing and SSPS is used for descriptive analysis. The result of present study indicates that talent engagement has a significant positive impact on employee performance. Likewise, result describes that the faculty members which are well engaged towards their jobs are more satisfied with their work performance and also satisfied with their jobs or organizations. The findings of this study, contributes for the top management of higher education institutes to improve the engagement of their employees towards their job and organizations, to improve their performance and job satisfaction. Present study also has important theoretical contributions in the existing literature of talent engagement, employee performance and job satisfaction. Furthermore, current study also explains the relationships among these variables in the higher education sector of Pakistan.
