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Talent Attraction and Its Relationship to Organisational Productivity
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In this theoretical paper the authors discuss talent attraction and its relationship to organisational productivity. Using Vroom’s (1964) expectancy theory as a framework, the authors argue that rewards are one of the more important elements to motivate employees for contributing their best effort to generate innovative ideas that lead to productivity within the organisation. This paper is part of a Master’s quantitative research project that was conducted by one of the authors on: influence of employee rewards on talent attraction and retention. The empirical article has in this regard been submitted for peer review. From the literature review that authors found employee rewards improve organisational productivity.
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