High Performance Work System: Institutional Motivation in Talent Management

In a competitive market, many organizational can not only relying to the traditional four factors of production. None of these factors are unable to be translated to profit equation if these factors are not well managed. Thus, the element of knowledge in managing these factors is so crucial. In order to perform this knowledge management, the roles of talent is undeniably important. Thus, this sparks the attention among the management to learn the effective ways to do talent management. Talent management is beyond than just staffing and retaining. If involves process of motivation and commitment of the employees. Unfortunately, most of the researches are mapped to international context to local setting and this creates blurred vision on talent management from local lens. Thus, this paper investigates and examines the institution motivation in talent management. To achieve the research objectives, there were series of in depth interviews conducted and a Government Linked Company status company was chosen for a case study. Series of structured interviews were scheduled in advance and thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview scripts. The study reveals that company involved with talent management for future agenda and these motivations factors are discussed in this paper.