Effectiveness of Talent Management Training Program on Nurse's Empowerment

Abstract

Background: Talented nurses create differential value and make contributions to the hospital; talent management has been advocated as an important scheme to empower those nurses. The study aimed to measure the effect of a talent management training program on nurses' empowerment. Research design: A quasi-experimental one-group pre-posttest research design was used. Subjects and Setting: The sample consisted of 145 nurses who were invited to participate in the study. The study was conducted at Fayoum University Hospitals. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used for data collection namely; Talent management and empowerment questionnaires. Results: Findings of the study indicates that there were highly statistically significant positive correlations among nurses' total talent management and total empowerment scores pro/post-program implementation, the strongest correlation was for talent management mindset with domains of access to support, access to opportunity, and access to resources, and with total empowerment scores. Conclusion: Nurses' total talent management level and total empowerment level were improved evidently throughout the program phases. There was a highly statistically significant positive correlation among nurses' total talent management and total empowerment scores throughout program phases. Recommendations: All health care organizations should introduce a talent management strategy in their strategic planning to remain competitive in today's healthcare market. Encourage complete involvement of nurses and other health care providers to donate their varied talent on the cooperative journey to talent advantage.