TALENT MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE

Abstract

It has been observed that the goals and objectives of sustainable organizations seems difficult to achieve without a pool of qualified and competent employees who possesses the wherewithal to drive the organization. This study therefore investigated the relationship between talent management and sustainability of secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study was guided by three research hypotheses and it involved the use of descriptive corelational research design. The population of the study was allthe secondary school teachers while the sample which was selected using the multi-stage sampling approach was 378 participants. The data for the study was collected using a self-designed and structured questionnaire titled “Talent Management and Sustainability of schools Questionnaire” and was designed on modified Likert-type rating scale. The instrument was subjected to face and content validity by two experts in instrument construction. The reliability was assured by administering 50 copies of the questionnaire on teachers who did not participate in the main study once. The data collected was subjected to Cronbach Alpha reliability technique and a coefficient of .78 proved the instrument was reliable. The hypotheses were tested using the Pearson-Product Moment Correlation statistics at .05 level of significance and the findings indicated that the explanatory variables significantly relate to sustainability of schools. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that; there is the need for organizations to employ competent employees in order to achieve sustainability of schools, organisations should make adequate effort to retain the best staff who can help institutions achieve sustainability.