To enhance the extant literature of talent retention and proffering solution to the negative employees’
behavioural outcomes of high performers in hospitality industry, this study investigates the influence of talent retention
strategies (training and development, and job security) on employees’ behavioural outcomes (employee job performance and employee
job commitment) in Nigeria’s hospitality industry. Pen and paper questionnaire was used for gathering quantitative data among
312 frontline employees working in the selected 5-star hotels in Nigeria. Descriptive statistics, Confirmatory Factor Analysis
(CFA), Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and Path analysis were used to establish the mean, standard deviation, measuring
instrument reliability, convergent, divergent and test of hypotheses respectively. The outcomes showed significant role of
these retention strategies on employees’ behavioural outcomes. This implies that, management should show consistent support
for the career development and economic stability of their workforce, and most especially the professionals. This is highly
important for gaining their full attention and positive workplace behaviour. This will create positive employer’s branding,
generate knowledge transfer, strengthen succession plan and retain top talents.
There are contradictions located in the Nigerian political economy. In the midst of the grinding poverty and marginalisation suffered by the majority, a tiny elite controls the political and economic levers of the state for the perpetuation of its hegemonic interests. On one hand, while the state role-plays as an indifferent ideological base for all interests within its territory, on the other hand, it seems to provide a stronghold that shelters the interests of the tiny elite or plutonomy. Additionally, members of this class indulge in a panoply of stupefying ostentation, grandeur and waste while the majority leads a precarious existence. Alarmingly, this gap between the privileged minority and the star-crossed majority has continued to distend, inescapably leading to a dangerous class conflict that may fulfil the Marxian apocalypse of the end of the capitalist or pseudo-capitalist system in the country. The youth precariat class, now a dangerous class, has emerged all over the country vociferously demanding equal access to the resources of the state which up until now have been in the stranglehold of the plutocracy. Situating this study within the Social Conflict Theory, as espoused by Karl Marx and other social conflict ideologues, the conflict between the dominant minority with the dominated majority appears unavoidable and increase Nigeria's fragility if existing contradictions in the Nigerian political economy are sustained. This paper calls for a multi-stakeholder intervention involving government, the public and private sectors, faith organisations, civil society, the media, and the international community to arrest the looming apocalypse that may threaten Nigeria's statehood unless the demands of the youth precariat class are met or their social and economic realities are improved upon.
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