Fighting Turnover Intention: Meta-Analytic Insights on the Role of Talent Management and Employee Engagement

Nowadays, organizations are facing talent shortages with important costs. Talent management plays an important role in reducing turnover intention, and this relationship is often explained by the mediating role of employee engagement. This meta-analysis examines the relationships among these variabl...

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Autores: Sinisterra, Luna, Peñalver, Jonathan, Fernández-Castilla, Belen, Salanova, Marisa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid
Repositorio:Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:jwop________::0bc8953f82e1e26a374dce060c33a1de
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.5093/jwop2026a4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Talent management practices, Intention to quit, Employee engagement, Meta-analysis
Prácticas de gestión del talento, Intención de abandono, Compromiso de los empleados, Metanálisis
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Sumario:Nowadays, organizations are facing talent shortages with important costs. Talent management plays an important role in reducing turnover intention, and this relationship is often explained by the mediating role of employee engagement. This meta-analysis examines the relationships among these variables following PRISMA guidelines. Based on 29 studies, the results confirm talent management practices are significantly and negatively related to turnover intention, while employee engagement partially mediates this relationship. In addition to it, the study tested several moderators, none of them explaining the variance in effect sizes. This suggests that the observed relationships may be relatively stable across different demographic and contextual contexts, but also proposes some methodological challenges in the assessment of moderators. The findings highlight the importance of employee engagement as a key mechanism through which talent management practices influence turnover intention, and they call for further research into alternative mediators and more nuanced moderator analyses. This is the first meta-analysis to quantitatively synthesize these three variables, offering robust evidence for future theory and practice.