Talent Management and Sustainable Enterprise Resilience among Travel Agencies in Port Harcourt

Abstract

This paper examines the association between talent management and enterprise resilience within the context of sustainable development in tourism based firms. It adopts a cross-sectional survey and generated research data from 30 travel agencies operating in Port Harcourt. The formulated research hypotheses were tested using Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient by aid of the statistical package for social science (SPSS). From the test results, the paper found that travel agencies' resilient capacity is largely associated with their talent management practices. Based on this, the paper concludes that talent management is crucial for firms' resilience, to be sustainable in their development. The paper recommends that the research and development functions of firms should institute specific talent management programmes whereby firms desired strategic skills and employee specific talents can be identified, developed and utilized to achieve high resilient capacity for sustainable development.