| dc.description.abstract | Key talents are important assets to a corporation′s continuous growth and innovation. In the face of severe talent shortage around the globe and the brain drain problem in Taiwan caused by economic and geographical reasons, Taiwanese corporations must confront the grim reality regarding key talent retention.
In this study, literature reviews were carried out on four issues, namely key talents, retention drivers, retention policies, and the correlation between key talents and retention policies. The qualitative research method of in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted on key talents of outstanding technology manufacturing corporation that implements comprehensive retention policies, so as to understand their preferences and concerns for the various retention policies. The study further utilized the grounded theory′s continual coding process of analysis, induction, and convergence to obtain the 13 core categories of preferred frameworks on 4 different levels. Finally, the preferences in correlated levels and core categories were obtained from the number of references to said categories and via a matrix analysis based on the interviewees′ background information. This study also compiled and summarized from the interviews, the important yet often neglected managerial implications of retention policy implementation.
This study is one of the few Taiwanese academic papers that approach the investigation of talent retention from the perspective of retained employees, thus providing the preferred retention policies frameworks obtained via the feedbacks from key talents. We hope this study can help corporations readjust and redistribute resources, so as to attract and retain key talents essential to corporate sustainability and development. | en_US |