Abstract

This study assessed the effect of talent management on growth of medium manufacturing enterprises in North Central Nigeria, motivated by the researcher’s observation that manufacturing firms in north central Nigeria rarely grow from medium to large firms like they are expected to. The study adopted a survey research design using primary data and a structured five-point Likert scale questionnaire. The study therefore adopted the ordinal method of multiple regression technique to analyse the data and test the research hypotheses that were formed for the study arising from the problem, question and objectives of the study. From an anlysis of 385 purposively selected respondents who were employees of medium scale manufacturing firms in Nigeria, the findings of the study showed that there is a positive and significant effect of talent development on growth of the sampled medium manufacturing firms while there was a positive but insignificant effect of talent motivation on growth of medium scale manufacturing firms in North Central Nigeria. The study therefore recommends that the medium scale manufacturing firms in north central Nigeria should continue with their present talent development practices since they seem to be working fine, but pay more attention to the motivation of talents in their firms since the findings indicate that their poor talent motivation practices are co-responsible for the stunted growth situation of the firms in the region.