Relationship between Talent Management and Employee's Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Commitment in Youth and Sport Offices of Fars Province

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between talent management and employee’s emotional intelligence and organizational commitment in the Youth and Sport offices of Fars Province.
The method implemented in this research work was descriptive-correlation. The studied population included all employees of the Youth and Sport offices of Fars Province (N = 320). All the population was selected as a sample. In all offices, 280 questionnaires were distributed and 252 were returned. The questionnaires of talent management (Sayadi et al., 2011), emotional intelligence (Bradberry & Griares, 2005), and organizational commitment (Speier & Venkatesh, 2002) were used to collect the data. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
Findings indicated that Talent management had a direct and significant impact on the emotional intelligence. The talent management also has a direct and positive impact on the organizational commitment. Finally, the endogenous Variables’ R-Square indicated that there was 28% variance in emotional intelligence and 46% variance in the organizational commitment that can be predicted by exogenous variables.
The results obtained imply the importance of talent management in emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. Thus talent management should be noticed in all policy-makings related to Ministry of Sport and Youth.