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National wellbeing and macro talent management revisited: issues of convergence and moderating role of natural resource endowment in developing countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2022

Alex Anlesinya Open the ORCID record for Alex Anlesinya [Opens in a new window] ,
Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah ,
Philip Kofi Adom  and
Obi Berko Obeng Damoah
Alex Anlesinya*
Affiliation:
Department of Organization and Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana
Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah
Affiliation:
Department of Organization and Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana
Philip Kofi Adom
Affiliation:
Department of Development Policy, School of Public Service and Governance, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Achimota, Ghana
Obi Berko Obeng Damoah
Affiliation:
Department of Organization and Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana
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Author for correspondence: Alex Anlesinya, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Management scholarship targeted at addressing grand societal problems such as national wellbeing is very few and remains highly fragmented. Hence, this study examines macro talent management (MTM) on national wellbeing and the moderating role of natural resource endowment (NRE). It applies dynamic system generalised method of moments estimator to longitudinal data from 78 developing countries. The results show that MTM can improve subjective and economic national wellbeing. Also, NRE positively moderates the relationship between MTM and national wellbeing facets. Besides, convergence in both subjective and economic national wellbeing is possible, driven significantly by MTM but with heterogeneous regional paths. This study contributes to talent management and wellbeing theories at the macro-level, and further demonstrates that countries can achieve national wellbeing synergies because of MTM practices. Moreover, it incorporates NRE as a macro-level boundary condition into the human capital theory to demonstrate that NRE complements MTM to accelerate national wellbeing facets.

Keywords

Developing countriesmacro talent managementnational wellbeingnatural resource endowmenttalent managementwellbeing convergence
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Research Article
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Journal of Management & Organization , First View , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management

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