EFFECT OF TALENT ACQUISITION ON EMPLOYEE PROACTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN EKITI STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, NIGERIA

Abstract

The present study explored how employee proactive behaviour is affected by talent acquisition. The sample survey used in the study was 253 employees in Ekiti State Civil Service Commission, Nigeria. Since the respondents were easily accessible in the Commission, the purposive sampling method was chosen. Regression analysis was used in the study and it was carried out with SPSS version 25. The results indicated that talent acquisition was not significantly related to employee proactive behaviour. The research finds that talent acquisition in itself is not a significant predictor of employee proactive behaviour in the Commission. The low explanatory power of the model is indicative of the fact that other organisational or contextual variables might have a stronger impact on proactive behaviour development among the employees. The research proposes that the Commission needs to re-evaluate its hiring and human capital development models, especially through looking at whether the recruitment procedures specifically focus on proactive skills and behavioural competencies in line with the preferred workplace results.