Numerous organisations fail to manage the talents of their employees effectively, despite the care taken to recruit the talent. At the same time, employees have the need for belonging, affiliation, recognition and being valued. The premise is that when an organisation invests in employees and manage their talent, employees feel valued and this increases embeddedness in their jobs. Talent management therefore, has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing job embeddedness because talent management functions mainly to manage employees from an aspect that develops and serves their best interests. Organisations can facilitate and leverage job embeddedness through effective talent management. Efforts can be directed towards ensuring that the human resource functions (recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, succession, planning, workforce planning) are strategically coordinated, structured and firmly integrated to enable organisations to make informed choices that support the overall strategic objective to meet the bottomline. The study assesses the relationship between talent management and job embeddedness. This study was conducted in a large parastatal organisation that provides bulk potable water in KwaZulu-Natal comprising of 399 employees from which a sample of 196 employees were drawn using the simple random sampling technique. Data was collected using electronic questionnaire surveys, and the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) were statistically assessed using Factor Analysis and Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha respectively. The data was analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results demonstrate that talent management is significantly related to job embeddedness and, organisations are encouraged to apply vigorous and conscious approaches to talent management in an effort to increase job embeddedness thereby reducing organisational turnover. This study provides guidelines and recommendations for the implementation of strategies for enhancing job embeddedness in the workplace. This will enable organisations to effectively manage the talent that they so conscientiously recruit.

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